You'd think Brian VanGorder's stock couldn't get any lower after 2018, yet he's still coaching at 60 years old and became Bowling Green's defensive coordinator this off-season--a team the Irish will face in week 6, no less. The former Notre Dame defensive coordinator spent one devastatingly poor season at Louisville a year ago leaving behind [...]
Notre Dame heads to Arlington, Texas to participate in the Cotton Bowl for the 8th time in school history. It's a bowl game that was once steeped in a ton of history, went through a funk for nearly two decades, and has found a rebirth in the new College Football Playoff system. In 2010, the [...]
The stakes are high as the Fighting Irish take the biennial plane ride to Los Angeles and face their rival Southern California Trojans. For Notre Dame, a trip to their first-ever College Football Playoff is on the line while USC has little to play for except a minor bowl game or the role of spoiler [...]
Worst title ever. This will be only the 9th all-time meeting between Notre Dame and Syracuse which doesn't seem right. Whether it's the basketball rivalry coloring things stretching back to the Big East days or the fact that this will be the 6th meeting in the past 16 years on the gridiron, this feels like [...]
It seems just like yesterday that Florida State was no longer the 9-win team incapable of breaking through and suddenly had morphed into an elite National Championship team. There was a time from mid-2011 through mid-2015 that the Seminoles were on a scorching hot 52-4 run that probably isn't fully appreciated yet historically. Today, things [...]
The rivalry with Northwestern that was prevalent in the 1920's, 30's, 40's, 60's, and 70's has made a little comeback. On Saturday, the Irish will face the Wildcats for the second time in 5 whole years. Even better, this will be Notre Dame's first trip to Northwestern's campus since 1976. Notre Dame (-10) at Northwestern [...]
Saturday marks another installment of the rivalry game between Notre Dame and Navy that has been running continuously since the first meeting in 1927. Besides a pair of games in Dublin--and another just announced to be coming again in 2020--the vast majority of the 'away' games in the series have been played in the Midwest [...]
As Notre Dame has attempted to diversify its portfolio with scheduling in recent years the rivalry with Pitt, like a few others, has taken a back seat. This Saturday, the Panthers return to South Bend for the first time since 2012 and this will be only the second meeting in the series over the last [...]
This weekend ticks off a Notre Dame road game bucket list. Although the first game of this series came 2 years ago during the forgettable 2016 season (can you remember much from the previous meeting?) it's this inaugural trip to Lane Stadium that has been among the Top 10 must-visit homes in college football for [...]
The year was 1996. It was the end of the Lou Holtz era and the Fighting Irish were finishing up a 2-year break from a 6-year run of playing Stanford each season. Up until this point, Notre Dame was 8-3-0 all-time against the Cardinal and despite a pair of crushing losses in the early 90's [...]
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 weird scheduling quirks this will break up 3 straight games in the series that took [...]
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 1995 when the Irish won 41-0 while opening the following season in Nashville in a [...]
From east-central Indiana the Cardinals of Ball State are heading up north to face Notre Dame on the football field for the very first time. It doesn't come at a great time for their program as 3rd-year head coach Mike Neu has won just 7 out of his first 25 games with one single win [...]
Following a lovely 4-year break we now welcome the odorous Michigan Wolverines back to Notre Dame once again. When we last saw the winged helmets the Irish delivered one of the sweetest victories this century, sending Michigan on its way to a 5-7 season and a firing of head coach Brady Hoke. Now, with the [...]
Notre Dame's up and down 2017 football season comes to a conclusion Monday afternoon in the metropolitan Orlando area of Florida. It's the 73rd rendition of the Citrus Bowl (formerly the Tangerine Bowl until 1982) with the Irish meeting Louisiana State in a bowl game for the 4th time since 1997. Since September 25, 2016 [...]
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