Notre Dame takes on Marshall for the first time ever on Saturday in South Bend. The Fighting Irish look to bounce back after a week one loss to Ohio State. In his first home game, head coach Marcus Freeman is also looking for his first head coaching win. Marshall might not be a big-time matchup but there are still a lot of storylines going into Saturday’s game. Last Saturday, we saw the Irish hang around with one of the best…
After a very uneventful off season, we finally have Notre Dame Fighting Irish football back! The Marcus Freeman era at Notre Dame begins under the lights in the Horse Shoe as the Irish take on The Ohio State Buckeyes. A first time head coach playing a top 5 team on the road is one hell of a way to kick things off. I am very open-minded when it comes to this game, but at the same time it is hard…
Every year college football teams going into a transition phase after the season. Players graduate, some leave early for the NFL and others elect to come back for a final year of eligibility. In the current college football landscape, you also add the Wild West that is the transfer portal. Rules have changed to benefit the student athlete when it comes to transferring. For Notre Dame, you add in a brand new head coach who needs to fill some holes…
The 2021 Notre Dame football season is over, and boy what a season it was. There were extreme highs and some very bad lows. It was anything but dull, and one that I will always remember. From MVP to best play of the year and everything in between, here are my picks. MVP: Kyren Williams RB – 1,002 Rush Yards, 14 TDs. 359 receiving yards, 3 TDs. Hard to imagine what this season would look like without Williams, as he…
The Good: Jack Coan – QB & Lorenzo Styles – WR – From a QB playing his last college football game to a true freshman playing in his first bowl game, both Coan and Styles had career games. Coan threw the ball 68 (!) times for 509 yards and 5 touchdowns. Styles caught 8 passes for 136 yards and 1 touchdown, but could have and should have had more. Yes the game ended in disappointment, but these two guys left…
Marcus Freeman is taking over for the winningest head coach in Notre Dame history, and his first game is the Fiesta Bowl against a very good Oklahoma State team. This is a tall task for any coach, let alone what Marcus Freeman is stepping into, but I think this team is fired up to play for Freeman and to send the seniors off on the right foot. From day one, Freeman did not want to look to the future, with…
Notre Dame played Stanford a little over a month ago. That month has felt like a lifetime for Notre Dame fans everywhere. Since that last game of the season, Notre Dame has lost its all-time winningest coach, replaced him and still almost made the playoffs. The Fighting Irish were the first team out of the playoffs, which landed them in a New Years Six Bowl Game. Not bad for a team that, coming into the season, was considered in a…
I was about to write a game recap for the Stanford game, but some other news from South Bend trumped that. Yup. That tweet isn’t fake. From what it sounds like, Brian Kelly is heading to LSU. He’s leaving as the winningest coach in Notre Dame history, with a team that still has a great shot at reaching the playoffs this year. I have two guesses as to why he would leave. First (and big one), money talks. He wasn’t…
Notre Dame put together a near perfect game on Saturday vs Georgia Tech and sent the Seniors out in style. It was an all-around flawless game from a Notre Dame team that was full of flaws at the start of the season. The best part of Saturday was sending out the Seniors with another win at Notre Dame Stadium. Looking at the final score of 55 to ZERO, you would think that there would be some record-setting individual performances; however,…
This blog will be a short one because I was out of the country and was unable to watch the game. With that said, I would like to thank Notre Dame for not making this game a close one that I had to worry about missing. I watched a ton of highlights and looked over the box score and it’s safe to say Notre Dame played one hell of a game Saturday night vs Virginia. This was the last big…
Last year marked the first time that Navy and Notre Dame did not play since World War II. With a year off thanks to Covid, Notre Dame and Navy took to the field to renew their rivalry on Saturday. Notre Dame will always be more talented than Navy, but that never means the Irish will cake walk the Midshipmen. This is the one game a year I never really know what to expect. Navy always comes to play and when…
For the first time since the USC game in 2019 I was at a Notre Dame game and boy did it feel good. Game day in South Bend is something special, but toss in a primetime game under the lights and it is even better. Before the season started, this looked like one of the bigger games on Notre Dame’s schedule. After the first few weeks of the season, that was no longer the case after North Carolina stumbled out…
One of the big things we all missed last year with the wild college football season was the big rivalries that we’ve been accustomed to. One of those big rivalries we missed was Notre Dame and USC, due to the fact that it was only conference play last season. So after a year off, Notre Dame is set to take on USC Saturday night in South Bend. When my Notre Dame fandom started in the 90s and into the early…
If we as Notre Dame fans have leaned anything in the first half of the season, it’s that we are in for a wild ride. This past Saturday vs Va Tech was no different. In front of a sold out wild crowd in Blacksburg, the Fighting Irish fought back from being down more than once to pull out a last-second win with another Jonathan Doerer game-winning field goal. As the Irish head into their bye week, there is a ton…
Nothing like a large road test following a big time loss. That’s where Notre Dame finds themselves this week as they head to Blacksburg to take on Virginia Tech in one of the more hostile college football environments. This Notre Dame team is very different than the one who went into Blacksburg and handed it to Va Tech. That Irish team could lean on the run game to get the win – and as we have seen this year so…
Notre Dame played three quarterbacks during Saturday’s loss, and it was not due to injury. Jack Coan started the game, with Tyler Buckner coming in at times to get the offense going. With the Irish down 17-0 at half and the Irish offense doing little to nothing in the first half, Brian Kelly made the call to switch to Drew Pyne. Buckner would be tossed in the second half for a play, but it was Pyne’s offense in the second…
As the saying goes “All good things must come to an end,” and Notre Dame’s home winning streak did just that this past Saturday. The home win streak was snapped at 26 games, after 3 full seasons where Notre Dame did not lose a home game. So as much as the loss to #7 Cincinnati sucks, Notre Dame has had a great run at home these past 4 years. Notre Dame lost the top 10 match up vs Cincinnati, 24-13….