Notre Dame improves to No. 18 in the coaches’ poll, stays pat in the AP poll. Torii Hunter Jr. is coming back from injury. These stories and much more from the past 24 hours of Irish football below.
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LAST GAME: NOTRE DAME 39, NEVADA 10
- Blue & Gold Illustrated: Notre Dame vs. Nevada: News & notes
- Blue & Gold Illustrated: Players of the game – A closer look
- Blue & Gold Illustrated: From the locker room…
- Blue & Gold Illustrated: Notre Dame vs. Nevada: On paper revisited
- Goshen News: Crawford tears Achilles; Irish secondary reshuffled
- Inside the Irish: The good, the bad and ugly: Notre Dame vs. Nevada
- Irish Illustrated ($): Tim Prister’s point after
- Irish Illustrated: Irish notes: Back on track
- Irish Illustrated ($): Notre Dame report card: Nevada
- Irish247 ($): Irish defense report card: Nevada
- Irish247 ($): Irish offense report card: Nevada
- Irish247: Watch: All the top plays from Notre Dame’s win over Nevada
- News 4: Nevada falls to Notre Dame 39-10
- NWI: Young Irish no longer a mystery
- Slap the Sign: Gradebook: Assessing Notre Dame’s win over Nevada
- UHND: Beyond the boxscore: Notre Dame v. Nevada ’16
- UND: Sunday brunch: The next Saturday couldn’t come fast enough
- UND: University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish media conference
NEXT GAME: MICHIGAN STATE (7:30 p.m. ET SATURDAY, NBC)
- Blue & Gold Illustrated: Day of washing away vs. Nevada sets up Michigan State showdown
- Free Press: On 50th anniversary, remembering MSU-Notre Dame “Game of the Century”
- Free Press: Michigan State faces a Notre Dame secondary that keeps getting thinner
- Irish Illustrated ($): Crossing the lines
- MLive: Notre Dame passes mental test against Nevada, braces for physical Michigan State
- ND Insider: Analysis: Sizing up Notre Dame’s growth curve heading into showdown with MSU
2016 TEAM
- College Football Talk: AP Top 25: No. 1 Alabama stays ahead of rising Florida State, Ohio State and Michigan
- CSN Chicago: Notre Dame No. 18 in both AP and coaches polls
- Irish Illustrated ($): Irish identity about to be unveiled
- Irish Sports Daily ($): Frank commentary
- Irish Sports Daily ($): Sunday thoughts
- Irish247: Notre Dame checks in at No. 18 in coaches, AP polls
- One Foot Down: Notre Dame poll watch: It’s good not to lose
- WSBT: Notre Dame solid in national rankings
OFFENSE
- College Football Talk: Notre Dame WR Torii Hunter Jr. to return to practice this week
- Irish Illustrated: Irish optimistic on Hunter return
- Today’s U: Notre Dame receiver Torii Hunter Jr. will practice Tuesday
DEFENSE
- Blue & Gold Illustrated: Notre Dame secondary becomes primary topic
- Blue & Gold Illustrated: On the beat: Notre Dame’s thin secondary takes another hit
- CSN Chicago: Medical redshirt on the table for Nick Watkins as Notre Dame sorts through CBs
- Irish Sports Daily ($): Kelly seeing improvement in secondary
- ND Insider: Notre Dame defense finds footing in bounce back win over Nevada
RECRUITING
- Blue & Gold Illustrated: Notre Dame legacy Colin Grunhard talks visit, walk-on possibilities
- Blue & Gold Illustrated: Notre Dame visit ‘without a doubt’ exceeds expectations for Jacob Lacey
- Irish Illustrated ($): Irish hard after 2019 DT Jacob Lacey
- Irish Sports Daily ($): 2018 MA OL impressed with ND
- Irish Sports Daily: ND commit takes in first ND game
- Irish Sports Daily: Devine inspired by ND
- Irish Sports Daily ($): Carman coming back
SCHEDULE
- CSN Chicago: Notre Dame schedule watch: Army off to first 2-0 start in 20 years, Navy slips past UConn
MISC.
- Tribune Democrat: Johnstown’s Duranko tackled football opponents, then ALS
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