Holy Carp. The season’s almost here. That was fast!

And with the new season comes a new series of Subway Domer’s creation: The Irish Blogger Gathering. This week, Frank over at UHND hosts and submits the 7 questions below. He’s also posting links to all the responses to his questions, so after [...]

The “game notes” for Purdue week were released by ND yesterday. You can find them here (warning: PDF). We just had something pointed out to us which we “knew” in the same sense we “knew” it’s been 17 years since ND had a true top-3 team (credit: “Pat”):

The Last Time a Notre Dame [...]

The sun isn’t up, and I’m surfing the web to see if something – anything – of note has changed in the world of college football since I went to bed 5 hours ago.
Welcome to Week 1, kids.

Because if we didn’t let this one burn up our little node of the interwebs, then it might not fully set the web on fire:

Thanks to “Pete” for the screen-cap.

That’s a screen-cap from a video shot while the Michigan RB coach hosted some players at his home for a cookout. And that video is [...]

1 Week.

I don’t get HBO. I haven’t seen “Hard Knocks.” But I live in the web of football memes, and I think I’ve got a pretty good notion of what it’s about. And I’d just like to suggest that the same folks who make that make a new series: A Day in the Life [...]

OHHAI FIVE STAR
The Wall Street Journal has ranked the FBS teams based on talent among starting lineups across the country, and Notre Dame ranks #3 with an average of 4.09 stars (Rivals). Only Southern Cal and Florida rank better. In fact, ND’s average is more than a half-star better than the average of [...]

The Forciers make college football blogging so easy. Almost too easy.
Michigan QB Tate Forcier was recently forced to practice at Michigan without his “wings” on his helmet due to attitude issues. I can’t imagine where that attitude comes from. I wonder who is compiling a list of “articles” deemed “good media coverage” on [...]

Last year, I had a small thrill when I got to read a preview copy of Jim Dent’s latest book, Resurrection: The Miracle Season That Saved Notre Dame. It was exactly what a guy like myself needed to whet the whistle just before the start of college football season. You can read my [...]