A bunch of thoughts about Notre Dame football after the first 9 games of the season… You can read the Q2 report HERE. Of course, 9-0 is better than 8-1 but there's no denying losing to BYU on the road and rebounding to beat formerly no. 1 Miami in South Bend sets the Irish up [...]
Three more weeks to go in the regular season and the picture is becoming clearer on the real National Championship contenders. Notre Dame's victory over Miami puts the Irish squarely back in the conversation while a couple SEC teams plus Ohio State are fully on life support following a decisive week 10. Let's get to [...]
I'm usually a crier after massive Notre Dame wins. Oklahoma 2012, Clemson 2020, Georgia Sugar Bowl all elicited some degree of eye-sweat. Not tonight. Tonight I'm just exhausted and relieved. Notre Dame managed to hold on to beat No. 1 Miami 31-24 Saturday night. It was a win that, provided they don't screw up the [...]
Win this game, or else you’re looking at a 1,000 Day Span of Empty Calorie Football. The stakes are high. Drop tomorrow night’s contest and the “Breakthrough Era” of ND Football under Marcus Freeman will be in the rearview mirror. How are we looking? […]
We're getting down to it now. The last month of the regular season begins this weekend and we have a packed schedule of games to go over. A wild New Mexico appears, there's a Holy War out west, and the SEC will be begging for your attention all day long. No worries, the playoff committee [...]
For the 10th time in college football history a visiting team comes to Notre Dame as the no. 1 ranked program in the country. In the modern era of college football where the November playoff committee rankings rule supreme when they are released it's often argued why we still have the AP Poll. For historical [...]
Week 9 is in the books and we're into November with the final stretch of the regular season. This past weekend saw Miami hold on to remain undefeated ahead of their trip to South Bend, the Hoosiers simply won't die, Ohio State looks in trouble, Florida may be put out of their misery, while SMU [...]
There is no game like Navy on the Notre Dame schedule for a bunch of reasons, but one of the several unique qualities about it is that no game on the schedule is more likely to go from "Federal emergency, burn down the program" to "oh, it's basically over and we won" in four possessions. [...]
What scares you the most? October is usually the time where that question gets asked the most for many different reasons. Horror movies become more in fashion, and it all leads to Halloween, which happens to fall on a Saturday for the first time since 2020 (the less said about gestures wildly at what 2020 [...]
One more weekend and we're into the final month of the regular season. While the future 24-team playoff is on the horizon, this might be the last (somewhat) normal regular season we'll see in these final weeks of 2026. Cherish them, if you can. This Saturday we have a bunch of periphery matchups on Halloween. [...]
Honestly, I could just leave it at the title, but you guys come here for more than just snappy headlines, so let's go over my philosophical objections to the colossally dumb 24-team College Football Playoff that reportedly is all but locked in for 2027, and also why the new format probably helps Notre Dame. Why [...]
Welcome back to a long overdue installment of Five Wide Fullbacks! This is the first 5WF I've done in 10 months, whoops. I guess time flies when you're having fun. Well, I guess things haven't been too fun as of late. In today's post we'll talk about good and bad for UTEP, the coaching hot [...]
The losses keep piling up for the nation's top teams and it's not likely to stop anytime soon. We should've seen the let down coming from BYU, meanwhile Texas Tech, Houston, Tennessee, Iowa, and USC also lost on the road during week 8 of college football. 18 Stripes Top 20 Ranking RANK TEAM RECORD [...]
It's cheeseburger time for Notre Dame as we reflect upon our sins and costly mistakes leading to the loss at BYU last Saturday night. With lots if introspection going on in South Bend the rest of the country marches on for the another week of football. It's not a great week, though. Winter is coming [...]
It's been a few months since our last update back in the middle of the summer. Since then, the 2027 class has been wrapped up (unofficially, but it appears to be sewn up) and we're slowly turning our attention to the 2028 cycle. Entering Notre Dame's bye week we have a full assessment of the [...]
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