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Friday Roundup: The Collecting Receipts Edition

September 20, 2019 by Ryan Ritter

Typically, the Friday Roundup collects news, stories, and hilarity from all around the college football universe. Although we all love Notre Dame, it's not the center of that universe and this space helps us enjoy everything that this beautifully stupid sport offers. Sometimes though, Notre Dame is the center of that universe. Notre Dame at Georgia is the lone CBS prime-time game this season. ESPN's College Gameday is in town. It's a top-ten battle with more playoff implications than anything ...

HLS Podcast: Notre Dame at Georgia NCAA Sim

September 20, 2019 by Ryan Ritter

The most accurate of all sports preview methods takes on one of the most anticipated games of the season! It's time for Notre Dame at Georgia. With such a highly anticipated matchup, Shane and I jump straight into the action. No long previews or big news recaps needed. It's time to get straight into the action...right after a cold open in which Shane is the unfortunate victim of technical difficulties and not me for once! ...

Burn, Baby, Burn Image credit: Reid Brewster

Opponent Watch: Seize A Weasel Edition

September 19, 2019 by IrishElvis

Each week in this space, we examine two things: Notre Dame's strength of schedule (from USA Today's Sagarin rankings), and who Irish opponents are facing. For those of who want to scout future opponents, I'll give you my recommendation for who to watch when you're not watching Notre Dame Football. Who To Watch Michigan (2-0) at Wisconsin (2-0), Sat 12:00PM ET, on Fox ...

HLS Podcast: Week 4 Picks

September 19, 2019 by Ryan Ritter

The week that we've been waiting for has finally arrived: Notre Dame at Georgia. As we start looking forward in earnest to one of the biggest matchups of the season, Eddie and I also get our picks in for one hell of a slate of college football that also features two additional early season top-25 games before a certain marquee game in between the hedges. It's go time. I'm fired up (despite the absolute disaster that was a total false start of the show which I captured in the cold ...

Notre Dame As a Double-Digit Dog in the Brain Kelly Era

September 16, 2019 by Ryan Ritter

The other day, after the Irish opened as double-digit underdogs to Georgia, Pete Sampson of the Athletic brought up an interesting piece of gambling trivia regarding Notre Dame as double-digit underdogs in the last 20 years. I'll leave y'all to answer that question as the research that I wanted to dig into was specifically the Brain Kelly Era. Here's the site that helped on this quest because I believe in showing my work and my resources (and let's be honest, I'm far too fond of degeneracy). ...

I Compared Notre Dame and Georgia Using Advanced Statistics. What I Found May Surprise You

September 16, 2019 by IrishElvis

The Irish open as a 13.5 underdog against the home Dawgs. Using overall and unit rankings from SP+, I examine what to expect on primetime Saturday night. You can jump over to ESPN for a quick primer on SP+ but it's a method to quantify team and unit efficiency. I decided to compare the relative strengths of each unit as they'll appear on the field, so looking at Georgia's offensive ranking compared to the Notre Dame defensive ranking (and so on). The first quick note: there are three teams in ...

HLS Podcast: Week 3 Recap

September 16, 2019 by Ryan Ritter

While it wasn't a full blood week, week 3 definitely held its fair share of surprises. Stanford and Southern Cal took hilarious losses. The entire ACC sans Clemson face-planted, including something that may be worse than an FCS upset. Even Notre Dame had its fair share of things to dive into this week after yet another slow start on offense and a **checks notes** camera that drew the rage of many an Irish fan. Georgia is just around the corner, but take a bit of time to savor this week ...

#RememberTheSix Merch Now Available!

September 13, 2019 by Ryan Ritter

Yes, New Mexico is tomorrow and Georgia is imminent, but it's never too early to due your duty as a Notre Dame football fan and prepare to troll Michigan in their own back yard. With that in mind, I'm happy to announce that I've whipped up one of our favorite moments in our series of mutual hatred and put it in our store: #RememberTheSix. Gone, but never forgotten are those six points that Elijah Shumate had to close out the 2014 tilt in wish the Irish won 37-0. Also never forgotten, ...

Yes, I always imagined I'd be looking for public stock photos of A/C units for a college football blog.

Friday Roundup: The HVAC Edition

September 13, 2019 by Ryan Ritter

Teams are always looking for ways to up their home-field advantage. Iowa paints their visitors' locker room pink. Notre Dame installed a comical tunnel for visiting teams to use. So when Ed Orgeron said that Texas cut off the air conditioning to the visitors' locker room, it sounded plausible even if it bordered on the bush-league absurd (even moreso than Weis' tactic of letting the grass in ND Stadium grow to absurd lengths). Coach O didn't stop there though. He said Texas pulled the same ...

HLS Podcast: Notre Dame vs New Mexico Preview and Sim

September 13, 2019 by Ryan Ritter

It feels like it's been ages since Notre Dame faced off against Louisville thanks to the rare second week bye. Now with actual Saturday football approaching (also a weird thing to say), it's time to get back into the swing of things. For us, that means only one thing: our own unique method of previewing Notre Dame Football, the most accurate predictive method in all of sports, the NCAA '14 Sim. With a slow news week we were able to jump right into the fun. Yes, Notre Dame was a heavy ...