A Notre Dame Football Blog
How perfect it is for the long victory march to arrive at this place, at this time, with these men! How fitting to face the fiercest foe, the blackest blight of the dark decade now left behind! Twelve is an ancient number of perfection – and perfect the Fighting Irish will be, as no other team in the land! With one more struggle, with one more heroic charge, with one more win Notre Dame will have climbed to the summit of an undefeated season. But one enemy stands in the way – and let him! ...
Notre Dame Football, we need to talk. Let's be honest, the past decade hasn't been kind to me or any Irish fan for that matter. Hell, we could probably go back even further than that, but I'm not going to pretend to have any major Irish memories when my age wasn't even in double digits. The point though, is that you've teased us before. We've seen the undefeated runs and the multiple "return[s] to glory" only to play Charlie Brown while you are Lucy, yanking the football away from us. ...
Bayou started off the week talking about some of Lane Kiffin's...uh...unique coaching habits. Twibby scratched the surface of the 2012 edition of the USC Trojans yesterday. Today we are going to go a little bit deeper and check out just exactly what stands between the Irish and a chance at a national title. ...
One of the principles underlying warfare is that of chivalry. The word conjures images of knights riding into battle or of a battleship firing off a salute. In practice, the principle of chivalry implies a respect for the rules. Given the events that unfolded in Los Angeles over the weekend, we need to be cognizant that things in Troy are not necessarily what they seem. In short, the only thing we know right now is that we're playing the University of Southern California Trojans on Saturday ...
The two teams are matched, if only in one regard. They have deacons, and we have deacons. “Deacon” is one of the Holy Orders. “Holy Orders” is not what a waiter says when serving a party of 46 – it is the Sacrament of ordaining ministers for the Church. Only men. Just like college football. Since we are dealing with the Church, there is a complex hierarchy. Just like college football. Let’s examine all the Holy Orders and observe some other parallels between our pastime (Church) and our ...
From the last Roundup to now quite a lot has gone down. The #1 team in the nation fell, the QB Flavor of the Week Award Heisman Trophy race got another contender, Kansas State has a QB on the cover of SI, the usual sampling of news that can be found in the Roundup below, we got a new sponsor, our server had some major issues (I'll sleep one of these days), and the Notre Dame campaign is starting to get into full swing. ...
There will only ever be one Michigan. This is neither good nor bad. Someone had to be first, and it was our northern neighbor. That is in the very nature of a rival. The word comes from the Latin rivus, meaning river. A rivalry is weighted with the sense of an unquenchable competitiveness natural to two neighbors who use the same river, who oppose each other from opposite banks with a fast-flowing waterway forever coursing between and dividing them. Michigan, we would say, is the ...
Much of the talk this past week in college football has centered around one central topic. If Alabama, Kansas State, Oregon, and, yes, Notre Dame remain undefeated, who goes to Miami to compete for the national title? Schedules have been compared. Style points tallied. Tea leaves read. Throughout all of the these activities though, one thing must not be forgotten: win. Every. Damn. Game. ...
Week 3 has brought serious movement to the HLS Top 25. While the membership of the top 25 remains largely unchanged (only three teams dropped this week), Stanford's upset of previously ranked #3 USC and Notre Dame's drumming of previously ranked #11 Michigan State created quite the domino effect. Only four teams kept their previous week's rankings, three of which are in the top ten. Here's how everything shook out this week: ...
Instead of sitting around and sulking while wishing we were vacationing in Dublin, the HLS team got together to predict the 2012 Irish regular season record. Biscuit, NDtex, Bayou Irish, Grantland-X and myself all agree that ND will beat Navy this weekend, but from there we all see things shaking out a little bit differently. ...