A Notre Dame Football Blog
It's hard to believe, but, with this podcast now in the books, there will be only one more game to pick: the National Championship. Before that happens, Eddie and I still have a rather large slate to get you through the end of the year and to kick off your 2020. So come join us at the altar of GAMBLOR before it's too late and the clutches of the offseason ensnares us all. #HAILGAMBLOR ...
Loyal readers, it's the most wonderful time of the year: bowl season! It's our final chance to enjoy some final moments of joy in this wonderful and supremely stupid sport that we all love. So, in the spirit of the season, we want to make sure that you catch every single moment. Some of you, like yours truly, might be stuck working during some of these sublime exceptions. Others might need a friendly reminder during the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season of when it's time to take a ...
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 ...
Bronx, New York, 12/28/13 Notre Dame #2 Chris Brown completes a catch in the third quarter during the annual Pinstripe Bowl football game at Yankee Stadium on December 28, 2013. (Paul J. Bereswill)
At 2-4, the Irish are long shots to make a bowl game. Can they make it to six wins to become bowl eligible? And if so, should they even go to a bowl? Stanford, Miami and Virginia Tech are all tough opponents, but they're also home games. I watched Stanford closely last Saturday. Christian McCaffrey is banged up. The offense is struggling. The defense doesn't appear great either. Washington State largely dominated the Cardinal in Palo Alto. I think the turnaround begins Saturday in South ...
Now that the bowl season has finally come to a close, the stats that matter have finally come out: attendance and TV ratings. While my tongue is certainly planted in my cheek right now, I certainly recognize that the expansive bowl season, now totaling 39 games and featuring 76 teams (that's 59.4% of the FBS if you're keeping score), is all business. And while we've certainly heard that teams lose money going to these games, there is evidence that said loss could very well be an exercise in ...
To bowl or not to bowl, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The injuries and defeats of a season lost, Or to take the field against a sea of troubles And by playing end them. To quit—to rest, No more; and by a rest to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That losses are heir to: 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To quit, to rest; To rest, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub: For in that offseason what dreams may come, When ...
Notre Dame's final bowl destination will come down to a lottery drawing. It certainly isn't the end result that anyone expected when we linked this handy infographic from FIDM, but here we are. Now, the situation isn't as simple as the six "Tier 1" bowls all throwing their names into a hat. Nothing ever is when it comes to the bowls. I've done a bit of digging around to try and paint the best picture that I can, and this post will detail what I've found. To paint an easier picture, I will ...