At the beginning of the season, most people agreed with Bill Connelly's preview of Notre Dame's schedule. His SP+ forecasts suggested that our three toughest games were, in order of difficulty: Georgia, Michigan, and Stanford. He called for losses in the first two and 6 point win against Stanford. It sucks that he was correct [...]
So we meet again, Dawgs. For just the second time ever and first time during the regular season Notre Dame will square off against Georgia. For the Bulldogs it's a rare trip up north and a chance to notch an early-season victory on the road as an underdog. The previous meeting in the 1980-81 Sugar [...]
A new college football season is always exciting and for this year in particular the Irish should be chomping at the bit to put the 2016 campaign behind them as quickly as possible. As usual, there's plenty of hope combined with plenty of question marks. The biggest of all is whether this could be Brian [...]
Well, they did it again. In many ways not much came together for Stanford in 2016. After carrying so much of the load two falls ago Christian McCaffrey couldn't do the same in 2016 and missed some time on the field. The Cardinal attempt to break in a new quarterback didn't do great, either. However, [...]
The game last year between Navy and Notre Dame featured 120 snaps. One hundred and twenty snaps total for a college football game. The Irish infamously settled for a field goal in the 4th quarter with 7:28 left in the game while trailing by one believing they'd get the ball back again. They never got [...]
Using the S&P+ rankings the Miami Hurricanes were the second best team Notre Dame played last year. Even though the Irish went 4-8 they were able to beat the 'Canes in South Bend. Now, the Irish will play at Miami's home stadium for the first time since the infamous 1989 game. It'll also be the [...]
Notre Dame is becoming very familiar with Wake Forest in the Brian Kelly era. This fall we will see the Irish take on the Demon Deacons for the 4th time since 2011. Notre Dame is undefeated so far in the series so we've got that going for us, which is nice. Wake Forest 2016 Record: [...]
Notre Dame fans are well aware of the ill-timed contract extension for head football coaches. Dave Doeren went from 3-9 to 8-5 in his second season and was awarded with a $400,000 raise and 2-year extension. Since then, the Wolfpack have gone 14-13 and more importantly really struggled to make an impact in the ACC. [...]
USC started 1-2 last year in embarrassing fashion with just 16 combined points against Alabama and Stanford. The Trojans switched to quarterback Sam Darnold (former 5-star Max Browne was benched and is now with Pitt following a grad transfer) in week 4 and still lost to Utah, although the offense scored 27 points and showed [...]
Larry Fedora has built things up at North Carolina to unprecedented success for their program in modern times. Their 19 wins over the past 2 seasons is the most since the Tar Heels went 21-3 from 1996-97. Additionally, their two-year S&P+ rankings of 28 and 21 convey a program built on a solid foundation. This [...]
On October 8, 2016 things were looking pretty bleak for Chuck Martin. His Miami RedHawks had just been soundly defeated 35-13 on the road to an Akron team that would be obliterated 41-0 the following week by eventual MAC champion Western Michigan. This loss was the 6th straight defeat to begin the season and dropped [...]
Michigan State didn't fall off a cliff last year they flew off it on fire with exploding fire works inside the car as the problems have continued right through the spring and into the summer. The Spartans are coming off a 3-9 season which is their most losses since 1982 and a bunch of off-field [...]
The Sgt. Slaughter meets Steve Ballmer person that is Boston College head coach Steve Addazio returns to Chestnut Hill for his 5th season but just barely. The Eagles won the Quick Lane Bowl against Maryland to give Addazio a key 7th victory and winning record. They even scored 30+ points against a Power 5 team [...]
It's year two of the Kirby Smart era in Athens and the Georgia Bulldogs are in a weird place. They've gone 4 straight years without a divisional title in a really weak era of the SEC East and they've only had 1 really great season out of their past 8 campaigns. Still, as always the [...]
It's an understatement to say that Notre Dame faces white hot pressure straight out of the gate this fall. The Irish had a pretty quiet spring which is almost always a good sign and today we'll start winding our way through the 2017 opponents and their updates this off-season. First up is a program in [...]
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