Wake Forest Review: Irish Turn the Page on Offense
Notre Dame's offense needed a spark on Saturday afternoon and received a jolt of TNT via the controversial insertion of redshirt sophomore quarterback Ian Book. While keeping Brandon Wimbush on the bench the Irish offense exploded for one of the [...]
Irish Fans Wake Up to a QB Quandary
Notre Dame sits at 3-0 and ranked in the top ten this week. You would think that's a good place to be, but many Irish fans understandably grumbled about the offense's performance to date. Now it looks like that performance [...]
Wake Forest Preview: Booking a Trip to Winston-Salem
Notre Dame's most friendly new ACC brethren is back on the schedule once again. The Irish face Wake Forest for the 5th time in 8 years after previously spending over 100 years never having faced the Demon Deacons. Due to [...]
Advanced Stats Review: Vanderbilt
S&P+ gave Vanderbilt a 56% post-game win probability based on an advantage in yards per play, more scoring opportunities, and perceived poor turnover luck. An efficiency edge and slightly better performance converting scoring opportunities (even though it was ugly) saved Notre [...]
Film Room: The Quarterback’s View
So far, 2018 has been a bit of roller coaster ride for the Notre Dame offense. At times, they’ve looked very good and at other times, they’ve looked dreadful. Typically, when the offense isn’t producing, there is a lot of [...]
18S Top 20 Poll: Oh, for Chryst Sake
Week three is in the books and we remain heavily blue-blood at the top of the polls. We were treated to a couple really fun ranked matchups that debuts a couple of new teams in the Top 5 of our [...]
Vanderbilt Review: Taking Applications for a Passing Game
Notre Dame continues to search for something on offense. An identity perhaps. A game-breaker for sure. More consistency no doubt. For the third straight week another strong defensive effort began bursting at the seams as the Fighting Irish sweat out [...]
Unanswered Questions: Vanderbilt Instant Reaction
The talk about Notre Dame going into the 2018 season at least partially revolved around whether the defense might be as talented as the 2012 unit that propelled the Irish to a 12-0 regular season. Through three games, we don't [...]
Vanderbilt Preview: Anchors Away
Note the 2:30 eastern start time this week, friends. A little bit of the SEC is coming to South Bend this weekend. I do stress a little bit. The Vanderbilt Commodores return to Notre Dame for the first time since [...]
18S Top 20 Poll: Road Wins at the Top
Week two is in the books and a pair of 2017's best teams came away with big road victories to cement their early claim as the best teams of 2018. If you're waiting for a shake-up at the top of [...]
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