A Notre Dame Football Blog
We've finally arrived at both the greatest and saddest time of the college football season. It's the week in which everyone around the nation stops pulling their scheduling punches and goes all-out--the final week of the season is upon us. The Iron Bowl. The Game. Bedlam. The Battle for Paul Bunyan's Axe. And that's just scratching the surface. Oh, and Notre Dame needs to end a freaking decade-long streak of failing to beat Stanford at the farm. It's the final regular season trip to the ...
As we mentioned on the Notre Dame/Boston College recap show, the holiday season is here meaning that it's time to adjust the regular podcasting schedule. As such, we are bumping the usual Wednesday/Thursday schedule up a day, with the Picks podcast tonight and the Sim on Wednesday night. Typically, this wouldn't necessitate a full post; however, with both Christmas and New Year's landing in the middle of the week some advanced planning needed to go down. After all, Shane, Eddie, and I all ...
While this week typically doesn't have wall-to-wall excitement, it was far from boring. A top ten team fell, some games got spicier than expected, and even Notre Dame's blowout of Boston College was elevated by the fantastic, and Flutie-free, Notre Dame Fan Feed. We hit the major stories of the week, including some additional opining from yours truly about a couple Texas teams. Plus a look at the ND/BC game that might just talk more about the broadcast than the actual game. ...
I'm not sure if there is a more frustrating combo for a Notre Dame fan than to have to deal with than consecutive weeks featuring Navy and Boston College. The Navy sim eased fears and was a solid predictor for a good time this past Friday--perhaps we run it back again? There's only one way to find out. Come join us in the most accurate prediction method in all of sports, the NCAA '14 sim. After all, it's senior day against BC, what could possibly go wrong?! ...
This is always the toughest week of college football to find decent and entertaining games to put on the board. Shoutout SEC for your FCS habit and damn near every other conference working overtime to skirt rivalry matchups and fun. Despite the frustration, it's still college football y'all. There are only two Saturday's of full season goodness left to consume. Don't abandon it. Cherish it and come with us to the altar of GAMBLOR as the good Lord intended. #HAILGAMBLOR ...
Yes, we realized that ranked them that Notre Dame blew out was Navy. Further, this beatdown will likely bar Navy from returning to the rankings. We don't care. It was fun. It was cathartic in a way. 50-burgers are never a bad thing. However, there were loads of other important stories from around college football. The upsets were few, but the storylines many. Shane and I kick off your week by getting you up to date on everything. Come join us and enjoy the mental image of Chase Claypool ...
What, your copy of NCAA '14 looks different?
The Notre Dame NCAA Sim returns this week, bring Shane and a cold open back with it. With our virtual booth back to full strength, we turn to the most accurate of all prediction methods in sports to see just how much we need to worry about a ranked Navy team. After all, we've seen Notre Dame struggle against offenses deploying option concepts this season, so it's not like the number next to Navy's name is the only thing to worry about. We also discuss recent NCAA compliance cases featuring ...
Last week was wall-to-wall glory. Despite the chaos Eddie and I found ourselves batting .500 for the week and look to improve upon that performance in week 12. While this week's slate isn't as insanely loaded on paper, the potential for chaos to continue is certainly present. After all it's college football in November and, despite our best efforts to predict, we all know anything can and will happen. We're running low on college football Saturdays. Come join us at the altar of GAMBLOR ...
A new playoff ranking will release tonight. With that, forward-looking Notre Dame fans will naturally try to figure out if the New Year's Six is still in the cards or if the popularly projected Camping World Bowl is the likely location. But before we focus on who needs to win and lose for Notre Dame to sneak into the Cotton Bowl, they must, and I can't stress this enough, win the rest of their damn games for any of this to mean anything. Notre Dame's contract with the ACC, plus trying to ...
Could it be? Did we really all just witness a solid Notre Dame football game with minimal headaches? It seems too good to be true, but in a week in which many teams saw their seasons take a nose dive, Notre Dame strolled into Duke and came out with an easy W. It's a shorter episode for all the best reasons. It's the last time I roll solo this week, so come join for a recap of one hell of a week in college football and ND's second road victory of the season. ...