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HLS Sim: Notre Dame (8-1, 8-0) @ North Carolina (7-2, 6-2)

November 20, 2020 by Ryan Ritter Leave a Comment

Friendly reminder: The HLS Sim exists in an alternate, COVID-free reality in which Notre Dame is somehow still playing football in the ACC. The results, injuries, and everything in between exist solely within this parallel universe. Since next sim week would fall on a Thursday and ND has a bye this week, Shane and I decided to fire off the sim a week early. Along with that, I ran sims for the rest of the ACC to catch up properly as well. Quite frankly, that's probably the only thing that ...

HLS Recap: The QB Controversy That Never Was

November 16, 2020 by Ryan Ritter Leave a Comment

The big stories this week were the things that were never there in the first place: 15 games postponed or cancelled, SEC defense, Will Muschamp's job, wins for Penn State, and Michigan's title hopes. This extended to Notre Dame's matchup with Boston College, a matchup to give Phil Jurkovec the chance to prove that he was the true winner of Notre Dame's QB competition last year. Problem was, BC had as much of a chance of repeating a 1993 upset, as Phil did being ND QB1. But, much like ESPN ...

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HLS Sim: Notre Dame (7-1, 7-0) at Boston College (6-2, 5-2)

November 13, 2020 by Ryan Ritter Leave a Comment

Friendly reminder: The Sim exists in an alternate, COVID-free reality in which Notre Dame is still somehow playing in the ACC. All the wins, losses, injuries, and even depth charts, exist in the Sim's parallel universe. After we were all shocked with Notre Dame comfortably taking down #1 Clemson, has The Sim lulled us into a false sense of security? Does it know about 1993? Does it live in our minds and display our worst nightmares? There's only one way to find out. It's a Holy War and the ...

HLS Picks: Please Don’t Cancel Everything

November 12, 2020 by Ryan Ritter Leave a Comment

The title of this episode is the actual mood in the podcasting room. This week has not been kind in terms of COVID cancellations, leading Eddie and I to fear that quite a few of these picks may end up being meaningless by the time Saturday comes around. But, we persist, if for nothing else but to have another chance to talk about Notre Dame being Clemson once again. Seriously, that will never get old. Unless we lose to Boston College. Please don't do that. That would be ...

Notre Dame Beats Clemson Extra Life Supershow

November 9, 2020 by Ryan Ritter

What. A. Weekend. On Saturday, I started a 24-hour charity marathon stream, the beginning of which was completely devoted to Notre Dame's gigantic matchup, and, ultimately, a victory, against the (former) #1 team in the land, Clemson. What I could have never expected was that the guests and segments that I would have during this stream would create a time capsule of one of the most extraordinary Saturdays in ND history. A huge thank you to all my guests and especially all the donors to my ...

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HLS Sim: Notre Dame (6-1, 6-0) vs Clemson (7-0, 6-0)

November 6, 2020 by Ryan Ritter

Friendly reminder: The HLS Sim exists in an alternate, COVID-free reality, complete with it's own victories, losses, and injuries. Somehow, Notre Dame still plays in the ACC in this parallel world. Folks, this is the sim I've been dreading. With Sim Notre Dame constantly sputtering throughout the virtual season, including a mind-boggling blowout loss to USF, I've dreaded facing a mostly full-strength Clemson squad that includes a very healthy and very COVID-free Trevor Lawrence. Yet, this ...

HLS Picks: Going West

November 5, 2020 by Ryan Ritter

Welcome back Pac-12! We missed your after dark insanity and our college football lives feel complete once again. Oh, and don't forget about the big thing going down on Saturday: Extra Life. 24-hour charity stream starts live at 6 PM Central, 7 PM Eastern. The stream will kick off with a live reaction stream about some game happening in South Bend this weekend. So get your picks ready for the weekend. I will be up all night, even past the final whistle of Hawaii's first home game. I ...

HLS Recap: Ok, Let’s Talk About Clemson

November 2, 2020 by Ryan Ritter

It's the week we've all been waiting for since the final whistle of the 2019 season: Notre Dame vs. Clemson. We shorten our typical national recap for an more in-depth discussion of the game, using the final two data points of Boston College @ Clemson and Notre Dame @ Georgia Tech. In fact, we were so excited, that we completely forgot about our ACC Sim recap, so that will have to wait until Thursday. Oh, and don't worry, we laughed at Michigan. Hard. Podcast Twitch VoD ...

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HLS Sim: Notre Dame (5-1, 5-0) @ Georgia Tech (2-4, 2-4)

October 30, 2020 by Ryan Ritter

Friendly reminder: The HLS Sim exists in its own COVID-free reality, in which Notre Dame is still somehow oddly playing in the ACC. At this point, Shane and I feel like that we've seen everything that the sim can possibly throw at us. Every week, we're proven wrong. This might just be the most bonkers sim we've ever run. If you check out the episode length, you can probably guess what happened. Oh, and a quarterback that Notre Dame will play soon in the real world had some rather major ...

HLS Picks: Let’s Not Repeat Last Week

October 29, 2020 by Ryan Ritter

The universe must always be in balance. Apparently this means when Notre Dame blows out Pitt, GAMBLOR comes for our picks. It's been a good run this season, but Eddie and I are determined to get back on track. It's a new ballgame for the Extra Life charity bet (fundraising marathon next Saturday by the way!) as we are all tied up. This week's slate had a lot of shine and the Big Ten found out playing football can tarnish some of it. Despite that, we know IN THESE TRYING TIMES that we must ...