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Friday Roundup: The Fake Boy Band Edition

September 27, 2019 by Ryan Ritter

If you've watched any amount of college football this season, you've seen them. AT&T's "OK Boy Band" lip syncing a hook to a fake song that you probably don't want to admit becoming an ear-worm. It turns out the fake band has a name, 300 Likes, which I discovered because their fake song, "Summertime Lover" released as a full-blown song last Friday. I've been wanting to write about the most hated/loved commercial of this football season for some time now. However, I don't want to talk ...

One of our Loyal Readers makes sure Michigan enjoys their bye weekend during the B1G Championship game with a bag of cheeseburgers via @fathersorinramblers

Friday Roundup: The Trolling Michigan via Uber Edition

September 6, 2019 by Ryan Ritter

One of the things that I've enjoyed the most in the past couple of years here at HLS has been our focus on our crazy little community. Case in point: @frsorinramblers whom you will find on Twitter, our Discord, and our Twitch Channel. During our Hot Dog Bye Week podcast, this Loyal Reader revealed that he would spend his bye week Ubering around Ann Arbor during Army/Michigan weekend. Here's his playlist: For those keeping score at home, that's Army's Fight Song, The Irish Tenors, "Here ...

(Re)Introducing the Friday Roundup

August 16, 2019 by Ryan Ritter

That's right y'all, the Friday Roundup is back! For those unfamiliar with this little feature, it's a time in which we move our focus from Notre Dame and look outward to the rest of college football. While Shane and I do this in the HLS Podcast, we can only cover so many stories before we lose everyone with a two-plus hour episode. The Roundup will house those stories, plus those that really don't need more than a quick link and mention. As is tradition, the Roundup will also have a cold ...

Counting the Stars: Is Temple to Notre Dame what Notre Dame was to Alabama?

October 29, 2015 by Bayou Irish

One aspect of Saturday's game against Temple (7-0) that has me intrigued is the superficial similarity it has to Notre Dame's (6-1) National Championship Game against Alabama in 2013. The Temple Owls come into Saturday's game without a loss and College GameDay is comin' to their citayyyyy. They're ranked in the Top Twenty-Five for the first time since 1979. They're a program returned to relevance. And they're running into a buzz saw. For those of you who lived through, and still remember, ...

Courtesy of Daniel Hartwig (via Flickr)

Sacks: Just as Important as We Thought They Were

July 7, 2015 by Moons

Yesterday, Tex talked a lot about expectations. It was good and well worth the read if you haven’t already done so. I’d also been on something of an “expectations” binge having previously laid down some expectations about Will Fuller, Greg Bryant, Justin Yoon, and Max Redfield. Quite frankly, I started to get worried that we were going to start sending readers to the doctor with all of this bottled up excitement, so I decided to switch gears for a week. The good news is we’ve hit July. The bad ...