A never-ending discussion about Notre Dame and the greater CFB landscape
Just because the college football coaching cycle has slowed down — it doesn’t mean the NFL coaching cycle is anywhere close to be done. According to multiple reports, Notre Dame linebackers coach, Al Washington, is leaving the Irish to take a job in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins. Washington was just recently moved to […]
We are all moving onward to the 2026 college football season, and in the dead of winter, that means we are looking at early point spreads. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish open the season with a Shamrock Series game inside the home of the Green Bay Packers, Lambeau Field, to take on the Wisconsin Badgers. […]
I know a lot of it is because we are Notre Dame Football fans, but it really feels like the majority of the college football conversation over the past week is the absolute unhinged reaction to what the college football playoff will look like next season. If you remember, there was a chance that the […]
This week’s Throwback Thursday takes us back to one of the most emotionally charged games ever played inside Notre Dame Stadium — the 1992 showdown between Notre Dame and Michigan. I chose this game in honor of Reggie Brooks, whose birthday we just celebrated on January 19th. Reggie’s legacy at Notre Dame extends far beyond […]
Things have been bad for Micah Shrewsberry and the Notre Dame Men’s Basketball team in ACC play, so it’s pretty disheartening for them to go out and play well against the #17 ranked Virginia Cavaliers, only to let it slip away in a double overtime game, 100-97. Irish Lay It All Out There, But Fall […]
Yeah so… please forgive me here. There was a significant lack of coverage for Notre Dame sports over the weekend, and all I can say is sorry — Winter Storm Fern, directly and indirectly, caused a few issues and some things went unreported here for our continuing conversation. So let’s just throw it all in […]
According to multiple reports, Mike Mickens is leaving his job as the Notre Dame defensive backs coach for a role ciaching the secondary for the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens. Saying this is a “tough loss,” is 1000% accurate. mike Mickens has been one of the best — IF NOT THE BEST — defensive backs coaches in […]
You can feel it coming right? Well… maybe it’s coming. I mean — it’s probably coming, but is it coming for Notre Dame? College football is trying to figure itself out again which is nothing new. For decades. programs across the country have tried multiple ways to kind of “game” the system a little bit […]
The Notre Dame women’s basketball team was back in action on Thursday night against the Miami Hurricanes inside Purcell Pavilion. The Irish were trying to shake off the beatdown that UConn recently handed them, and while nothing really seems fixed or better, Notre Dame was good enough to get a 74-66 ACC win over Miami.
One of the really fun things to do over the course of the college football season is to critique all of the AP Top 25 voters each week about their Notre Dame ranking (or whatever). Their votes are very public, and they are held accountable by CFB fans. The coaches poll, however… yeah they don’t […]
Some games stay with you not because everything went according to plan, but because nothing did—and someone unexpected stepped into the moment anyway. Notre Dame’s 2002 trip to East Lansing was one of those games. The Irish arrived undefeated, carrying the weight of recent frustration against Michigan State and knowing how thin the margin for […]
The Notre Dame Men’s basketball team is more than struggling right now — they’re not even competitive inside the ACC. On Wednesday, they took another conference pounding, this time on the road against the North Carolina Tar Heels. Irish Fall 69-91 To #22/24 Tar Heels In Chapel Hill CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The Notre Dame Fighting […]
With the 2025 season at last in the books and all my negativity about the state of college football exorcised, in the spirit of turning the page toward the future I thought it would be fun to revisit a recurring topic here at OFD – namely, Notre Dame’s continuing march toward playing every team in […]
We have all sorts of good news coming in today. According to Blue and Gold’s Eric Hansen, Notre Dame defensive tackle, Jason Onye, has been granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA. Not even the new portal additions were as big of a deal for Notre Dame’s defensive line as this news about […]
Here’s a fun surprise for Notre Dame fans… the #1 kicker in the 2026 football recruiting class just committed to Notre Dame. Micah is a 6-Star kicker and rated as #1 in the country according to Chris Sailer. He was previously committed and signed to the Michigan Wolverines but with the dismissal of Sherrone Moore, […]
The college football season is over and with that comes the final poll rankings. In this new era of a 12 team playoff, the final rankings play second fiddle to the playoff field, but it’s still something important. Whether it’s a recruiting pitch or a state of the program or just a good old fashioned […]
Welcome to day one of the 2026 Notre Dame Football season. I’m sure you can make an argument that it started much earlier, but I’m not — it’s today. Notre Dame has a ton of talent coming back in 2026, and is bringing in 36 new players via recruiting and the transfer portal (which is […]
That’s an exciting title — isn’t it? That’s a thing in 2026 which, if it becomes reality, would mean the Irish have rightfully claimed their spot as the king of college football. It’s also something the Indiana Hoosiers just accomplished in the 2025 season… which just feels insane. So congrats to Indiana for winning the […]
When I saw the spread for this women’s basketball game between Notre Dame and UConn was sitting at a healthy 29.5 points, I couldn’t help but think of just how far this program has actually fallen. That line, maybe even more than the actual 38 point beating, was the cold shower to wake us all […]
I have nothing of real value to say here. It’s the National Championship Game tonight between the Indiana Hoosiers and the Miami Hurricanes. I have no dog in this fight, and to be honest, a meteor crashing into Miami wouldn’t be the worst of things to happen this week. Still… I’m taking this standing up, […]
The bad news for the Notre Dame Men’s Basketball program continues to come at us. Just a day after the Irish lost their fourth straight game (all ACC games) we find out that Kebba Njie will miss the rest of the season with an injury. “Unfortunately, in a previous game, I sustained a knee injury […]
We’re very close to getting this nightmare over with — or maybe started — I don’t know, but the National Championship Game between the Indiana Hoosiers and Miami Hurricanes is being played on Monday night. We’ve seen a number of Notre Dame fans talk about not watching or paying attention to the college football playoff […]
It’s been a tough road for Notre Dame so far in ACC play. We knew it would probably be a tough year for the Irish, and it has only been rougher since the loss of Markus Burton to injury. On Saturday, the irish lost to Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, 89-76. It was the fourth straight […]
Here comes the national championship game between the Indiana Hoosiers and Miami Hurricanes. It’s been a wild ride for Notre Dame fans over the last month and a half, but as wild as that ride has been for fans — it had to be wilder for head coach Marcus Freeman. Through it all, very little […]
There was hope in the air and Marcus Freeman in attendance as the Notre Dame women’s basketball team hosted the #9 ranked Louisville Cardinals — but no. After a good start in the first quarter, the Irish couldn’t match Louisville bucket for bucket throughout the game and lost, 79-66. No. 23 Irish Fall To No. […]