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Differential Landscape for Notre Dame’s 2026-27 CFB Opponents
Analyzing programs’ overall point differentials from the prior season is one way I’ve been sizing up Notre Dame’s opponents heading into the 2026-27 college football season. The opponents ended up being bucketed into three groups: Positive Differential Miami (FL) The Hurricanes finished the 2025-26 season with a +258 overall differential. They put up 459 points, […]
The Notre Dame position battle that can make Marcus Freeman a prophet
The air around the Notre Dame football program after the final college football playoff rankings were released felt biblical. Old Testament type of stuff — like Winston explains in the cinematic masterpiece, Ghostbusters. I suppose I could use floating ghosts as a metaphor too, but I’m not going to waste your time. But back to […]
Five Old Notre Dame Football Photos for a Friday: The Irish and BYU
Notre Dame and BYU will play later this year in Provo, Utah. Despite playing 9 times, this will only be the third time the Irish will have played in front of the Cougars home crowd. Notre Dame is 1-1 in Provo, but holds a 7-2 edge in the series overall.
Everything you need to know about the start of Notre Dame Football’s fall camp
On Thursday, Notre Dame finally took the football field together as a team for the first time since the Blue-Gold Game — and everyone is fired up. While I am always sceptical about taking anything too seriously (at least for what is viewable to the media) there are still a handful of things that stand […]
COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF SELECTION COMMITTEE PREPARES FOR 2026-27 SEASON
Just passing along the info… in case you want to hate watch the weekly rankings show for the College Football Playoff as fans of Notre Dame. The College Football Playoff (CFP) Selection Committee met this week in preparation for the upcoming season. The CFP Selection Committee is responsible for ranking the top 25 teams for […]
What Happened the Last Time Notre Dame Played SMU?
Notre Dame’s home finale takes place against a spunky program that has already made a CFP appearance in the 12-team era, and also has a special place in this writer’s heart as a graduate alma mater. While SMU isn’t exactly a marquee opponent, the relative ease of their schedule and the talent on their roster […]
Picking up the Notre Dame Football news we need
When you have a lot of options, the speed option hits them hardest. BRACKET PLAY Despite Fall camp opening for Notre Dame Football, there won’t be very much daily reporting coming out of South Bend as the media is on a leash via the Irish. That stinks for several reasons, and one of those reasons […]
When Champions Don’t Flinch: Notre Dame’s Statement at Penn State
There is a difference between becoming a champion and learning how to carry yourself like one. Notre Dame had already climbed the mountain in 1988, finishing a perfect season with a national championship and establishing itself once again among college football’s elite. But championships do not buy much patience the following fall. If anything, they […]
Notre Dame vs USC will never be the same again
The Notre Dame vs USC Rivalry, or comminly known as the Jeweled Shillelagh Rivalry, has survived a world war and a global pandemic — but it still might not survive Lincoln Riley and this new age of college football. Well… at least in the way most of us have come to enjoy it as fans […]
It’s Award Watch List SZN and Notre Dame is going to be well represented
The only thing better in life than two options to choose from is a third. Let’s get at it… NOTRE DAME IS COMING FOR HARDWARE It’s that time of year when all of the college football awards start dropping their watch lists for the season, and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish should be well represented. […]
Notre Dame might be healthier going into fall camp than you think
Marcus Freeman held a press conference on Tuesday to kick off the fall camp season for Notre Dame Football. To be honest… the injury list was the only thing I was interested in at this moment. Sure, I enjoyed watching Freeman have some fun about the haircuts and the new building, but the amount of […]
Notre Dame to start the CFB season ranked No. 5 in the Coaches Poll
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish will start the college football season ranked inside the top five in the Coaches Poll which was just released on Tuesday. The Irish received 5 first place votes. Indiana received 14 first place votes but is behind Notre Dame at No. 6. Notre Dame opponents: Miami Hurricanes No. 7BYU Cougars […]
Welcome to the 139th season of Notre Dame Football
We’ve finally made it. We’ve finally arrived at the start of the Notre Dame Football season — the 139th in history. Now, I know you may think I’m jumping the gun here with the season opening game still a month away, but that would be incredibly basic. Fall camp is here, and that means the […]
Conference Landscape for Notre Dame’s 2026-27 CFB Opponents
August is upon us and it’s finally time to start knocking the cobwebs off of the CFB analytics machine. We’re still a month out from the team’s season opener and one of the biggest factors that will influence this year’s action will be the persistent hellscape of CFB conference realignment. While Notre Dame continues to […]
Indiana cancels football series against Notre Dame because of course…
The news about Notre Dame and USC renewing the Jeweled Shillelagh rivalry is great for college football. Shortly after, the news about Indiana canceling its upcoming series against Notre Dame was not. This shouldn’t come as a big shock to anyone that follows either program. In fact, I pretty much predicted this in a post […]
Notre Dame and USC will renew the rivalry in 2030
If you’re a college football fan, this is great news. Notre Dame and USC have come to an agreement to continue the rivalry from 2030-2033 — although with much different game dates than the two have historically played. From the ND press release: SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The University of Notre Dame football program announced […]
Ready to put the Notre Dame offseason into a storage bin
If you ever have an option — make sure it’s a triple. The college football offseason has been long and a little weird (as all good CFB offseasons generally are). For Notre Dame football fans, the massive gap from the end of the Stanford game to now has seemed like the longest journey, and we […]
Notre Dame’s jaw-dropping new football facility is further proof that the Irish are ALL IN
Last week Notre Dame cracked open the doors to its new Shields Family Hall where all football operations will now reside. We got the first glimpses of the locker room and a tatse of what this Notre Dame Football program will now have at its disposal moving forward. On Friday… Notre Dame kicked those doors […]
Notre Dame is the best of the top 10
This isn’t word salad or verbal vomit, this Notre Dame Football team is the best of the top 10. Recently, On3 via Crain and Cone released their projections for the Top Ten Offenses and Top Ten Defenses in college football. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish came in at No. 2 on both lists. So let’s […]
Old Notre Dame Football Photos: Cheerleaders, leprechauns, and band stuff
Some of the best things about college football have nothing to do with the actual game itself. This week, in preparation for the season, I’m paying homage to some of the really good stuff… cheerleaders, mascots, and the band.
These are the official GREEN OUT uniforms for Notre Dame Football
We told/warned all of you about two weeks ago… Notre Dame is making a change to its green jerseys for this season. For the Irish Wear Green game this season against the Stanford Cardinal, Notre Dame is taking off the interlocking ND monogram from the sleeves, and replacing them with the football alternate logo of […]
Five predictions for Notre Dame Football’s fall camp
We’re almost there. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team starts fall camp in just days, and there are an incredible amount of expectations for this season under Marcus Freeman. We can certainly set expectations, but predicting what happens is an entirely different animal — but let’s try to wrestle that animal a bit. Here […]
Will Indiana back out of playing Notre Dame in the 2030 and 2031 CFB seasons?
Back in 2021, Notre Dame announced a home and home football series against the Indiana Hoosiers. While this announcement obviously came before Indiana’s meteoric rise in college football, fans were still excited to have this game on the books. Despite being in-state, Notre Dame and Indiana have only played 30 times with the last time […]
Notre Dame Football Talking Points
I rolled up to a high school football camp yesterday and I whispered into the universe… run the triple option. People that know me know about my love/hate relationship with Aaron Sorkin. So… I’m stealing a title that he’s used for multiple episodes of his television shows; Talking Points. It just seems to be the […]
Notre Dame Football: Defending Something Bigger
Winning a national championship changes things. For Notre Dame, the 1988 season had been about climbing back to the top of college football. The Irish went undefeated, beat No. 1 Miami in one of the most memorable games in program history, and finished the job against West Virginia in the Fiesta Bowl to claim their […]
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