A never-ending discussion about Notre Dame and the greater CFB landscape
Joshua and Jude celebrate Brendan’s birthday by opening the pod portal without him, because the Notre Dame Football universe doesn’t stop. In this episode: And MUCH more weaved inand out of the show. Please RATE and REVIEW! All reviews left on Apple Podcasts will be read on the next Earned 5-Star Podcast. Go Irish!
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One by one, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will add new members to its football family during the early signing period for the 2026 recruiting class. Rather than beat the site down with a profile piece after each of the recruits sent in their NLI, we simply offer this recruiting tracker for the day. OFD will offer […]
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Without exaggeration, tonight’s contest against the Missouri Tigers represented the most important game of the Micah Shrewsberry era to-date. Expectations are for the program to be in the hunt for an NCAA tournament bid, and for that to be a realistic possibility, there needs to be a quality non-conference win to point to. Beating Houston […]
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The penultimate set of College Football Playoff rankings were released and the committee decided to move Notre Dame down to #10 and Alabama up to #9. If you’ve been paying attention to me over the past few weeks — this is pretty much what I expected from the committee. They want Bama in the playoff […]
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It’s National Signing Day on Wednesday for Notre Dame Football and the rest of the country. Over the years we have seen the calendar change several times for the recruiting cycle, and this year brings another change as the early period for Signing Day is sooner than it’s ever been — which is fine. Now […]
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The 2025-26 regular season is closed for Notre Dame football. The team’s final record was 10-2 and all signs point to a College Football Playoff berth. It’s also time for the annual intensification of arguments about why the Irish’s Independent status should: 1 Automatically bar them from CFP participation 2. Completely bar them from Power […]
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Well, I don’t know about a lot of you Eastern timers, but I was (barely) awake for every snap on Saturday night/Sunday morning. That was rough, and an experience I don’t really want to go through again. Thankfully, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish had the Stanford Cardinal taken care of pretty much by the end […]
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The Notre Dame football team has finished the regular season and are awaiting to see what will happen for the post season — namely, the college football playoff. Despite the loss in Miami, and against Texas A&M, the Irish still have a chance to bring home its 23rd national championship thanks to doing what they […]
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Notre Dame got off to a rough start in 2025, but they looked like they fixed a few things in a 56-30 win over the Purdue Boilermakers and then the 56-13 win on the road against the Arkansas Razorbacks. They followed those two victories with two victories which covered massive spreads in a 28-7 win […]
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On a weekend that mostly featured big-brother wins over little-brother rivals (RIP Texas A&M’s perfect season, you came so close; congratulations Vanderbilt on breaking the mold), Notre Dame did its part and pounded Stanford, 49-20 out on the farm. It was the fourth game of five after Notre Dame’s bye in which the Irish beat […]
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On Sunday, the final rankings of the regular season were released by the AP Top 25 and Coaches Poll. Both sets of rankings put Notre Dame at #9, which is where they’ve been for several weeks now. Of course these rankings are mostly meaningless until the final rankings release after the National Championship game, but […]
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It’s kind of like Notre Dame knew it had to be on a mission with its trip to Palo Alto to take on the Stanford Cardinal for the Legends Trophy, and perhaps, a potential berth in the college football playoff. The game ended 49-20, but the Irish won this game before halftime. Notre Dame scored […]
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Notre Dame is on the road in California to finish its regular season. The Irish will take on the Stanford Cardinal for the rights to the Legends Trophy, and the stakes are very high. Regardless of all of the talk concerning scenarios, it’s still mostly a WIN AND YOU’RE IN game for Notre Dame. That’s […]
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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish have slowly climbed back up the rankings, and are now ranked #9 in the country in the college football playoff rankings after an absolute BANGER against Syracuse. Next up for the Irish is the Stanford Cardinal for the Legends Trophy, top nerdom, and a berth in the college football playoff. […]
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Alrighty folks, we’ve finally made it to the regular season finale of the college football season for our Notre Dame Fighting Irish. With a 9-2 record, a #9 ranking in the College Football Playoff rankings, and plenty of fun discussions happening on who deserves the at-large spots this year, it’s imperative that Marcus Freeman and […]
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Joshua, Jude, and Brendan unlock the safe to the pod machine to bring you the best Notre Dame football show. In this episode: And plenty more weaved in and out of the show. Please RATE and REVIEW! All reviews left on Apple Podcasts will be read on the next Earned 5-Star Podcast. Go Irish!
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Notre Dame drew a nightmare matchup in the swarming Houston Cougars for their final game in the Players Era tournament. A national title contender sporting one of the top defenses in the country, Houston seemed perfectly suited to stymie an entirely too Burton-centric offensive attack for the Irish. On the other hand, a win would […]
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There is a lot on the line this weekend as the Notre Dame Fighting Irish travel to the farm in Palo Alto to take on the Stanford Cardinal. Nevermind Stanford’s record or the fact the Irish are almost a five touchdown favorite – the pressure is still there. What’s on the line? The Legends Trophy […]
2 months ago | 3 reads
Notre Dame is on the road in California to finish its regular season. The Irish will take on the Stanford Cardinal for the rights to the Legends Trophy, and the stakes are very high. Regardless of all of the talk concerning scenarios, it’s pretty much a WIN AND YOU’RE IN game for Notre Dame. That’s […]
2 months ago | 9 reads
How’d We Do Last Week? Most Wildly Inaccurate Im not sure there has ever been less of a sleepwalk first half for the Irish. In fact, it was the most dominant first half in ND history…..A historically bad take from our friend NDFanDan, which is welcomed given the circumstances. (GoldRushND had a very similar take […]
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This week’s Throwback Thursday takes us back to a tense afternoon in Palo Alto, when the top-ranked Fighting Irish found themselves in a battle they never expected. Notre Dame arrived at Stanford Stadium favored by three touchdowns, but the upset-minded Cardinal pushed the Irish to the limit — proving that sometimes the biggest tests come […]
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On Tuesday night, after a ridiculously long wait for a finish to a college basketball game, the college football playoff committee released its latest set of rankings. STOP THE PRESSES… Notre Dame stays at #9. It was a mostly chalk week throughout the country, and even though Notre Dame won with an amazing score of […]
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Round Two for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the Players Era Tournament featured a tilt with the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. This game appeared to be a get-right spot for the Irish, as with Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey off to the NBA, Rutgers looks much less threatening than they did when they beat Notre […]
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The #9 ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish travel west to finish the regular season against the Stanford Cardinal, and are looking to go 10-2 and get its second consecutive berth in the college football playoff. Outside of everything else that a playoff berth requires, the biggest one is that Notre Dame actually beats Stanford. One […]
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It’s the final week of the regular season in college football for Notre Dame and the rest of the country, and there are all sorts of things up for grabs when it comes to the playoffs. Sitting at #9, there are still plenty of ways for the Irish to move up to be at home […]
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