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Irish Top Tar Heels: Defense Stellar in Last Test of the Regular Season

Irish Top Tar Heels: Defense Stellar in Last Test of the Regular Season

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Leading up to the game on Friday afternoon, everyone was talking about how great the North Carolina offense was. Rightfully so – they were putting up monster numbers behind their playmaking quarterback Sam Howell. This would be the second-best offense the Irish defense would face all season, behind Clemson, and the last true test for the Fighting Irish before a potential rematch with Clemson in 3 weeks at the ACC Championship game. The high-powered North Carolina offense was on full…

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Top 25 Match-Up: Fighting Irish Head to Chapel Hill to Take on Tar Heels

Top 25 Match-Up: Fighting Irish Head to Chapel Hill to Take on Tar Heels

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Notre Dame (8-0, 7-0 ACC) heads to Chapel Hill to face North Carolina (6-2, 6-2 ACC) in the final road test this season. North Carolina will also be the last team the Irish face that will be ranked this regular season. The Tar Heels come into the game ranked 19th in the nation. North Carolina’s strength is their offense, as they are averaging 563 yards of total offense per game. The Tar Heels are led by their sophomore quarterback Sam…

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College Football Rankings: Irish Come In at #2

College Football Rankings: Irish Come In at #2

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The first College Football Playoff rankings came out tonight, and The Notre Dame Fighting Irish came in at #2, right behind Alabama. This is the highest the Irish have found themselves on the rankings since they were ranked #3 back in 2017. Notre Dame has 3 games left on the regular season schedule, one of which will be vs a ranked team. This Friday, Notre Dame travels to Capel Hill to play North Carolina, the last ranked team left on…

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Irish Down Two Offensive Linemen Vs UNC, One for the Season

Irish Down Two Offensive Linemen Vs UNC, One for the Season

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The big news coming out of the bye week was not all great. During Brian Kelly’s weekly press conference, it was made official that the Irish will be without two offensive linemen for Friday’s game. Junior center Jarrett Patterson has been lost for the season after a foot injury during the Boston College game that required surgery. The other lineman out is grad senior right guard Tommy Kraemer, who had an emergency appendectomy. Kraemer, unlike Patterson, will be back hopefully…

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2020 Season Likely Last for Ian Book, QB Accepts Senior Bowl Invite

2020 Season Likely Last for Ian Book, QB Accepts Senior Bowl Invite

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Yesterday, senior quarterback Ian Book accepted an invitation to play in this year’s Senior Bowl. The Senior Bowl is an exhibition game at the end of the season that only seniors are invited to play in. The game is played so they can show off their skills in front of NFL scouts. In a normal year there would be no one second-guessing Book accepting the invite because this would be his last year. Thanks to Covid19 and the cluster that…

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Finding the Field in College Football: How Both Avery Davis and Phil Jurkovec Found it in Different Ways

Finding the Field in College Football: How Both Avery Davis and Phil Jurkovec Found it in Different Ways

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If you watched the Notre Dame Vs Boston College game, you were sure to hear about how Eagles’ current quarterback Phil Jurkovec was on the Irish the last two years. ESPN beat that storyline to death on Saturday during the game, taking about it almost every time Jurkovec was on the field. Jurkovec took the route of transferring to find playing time. Current Irish wide out Avery Davis took a different path than Jurkovec to find the field. Davis, like…

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Ian Book Leads Irish Past Boston College, Head into Bye Week Undefeated

Ian Book Leads Irish Past Boston College, Head into Bye Week Undefeated

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The storyline going into the game Saturday night was how the current quarterback of Boston College, Phil Jurkovec, played behind Ian Book the last two seasons and how he wanted to go out and beat his own team. As much as the ESPN broadcast wanted to keep that storyline going during the whole game, Ian Book stole the show. Book made sure everyone who watched the game knew why there was no competition in South Bend the last two seasons….

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The Holy War: Irish Head to Boston College Hoping to Avoid Repeating History

The Holy War: Irish Head to Boston College Hoping to Avoid Repeating History

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#2 Notre Dame 7-0 (6-0 ACC) heads to Boston Saturday to take on Boston College 5-3 (4-3 ACC). If you know anything about Irish history, this game should give you nightmares. In both 1993 and 2002, the Irish came off big wins vs Florida State only to lose to Boston College the following week. The bigger of the two was in ’93 when the Irish knocked off #1 Florida State and then lost on a last-second field goal to the…

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Brian Kelly & Host of Irish Take Home National & ACC Weekly Awards

Brian Kelly & Host of Irish Take Home National & ACC Weekly Awards

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The #2 team in the nation took home the Revel Suits Nation Team of the Week which is handed out by the Football Writers Association of America after upsetting the #1 team in the nation at Notre Dame on Saturday night. Head Coach Brian Kelly and a number of players took home individual weekly awards too. Here they are: Weekly Awards – Brian Kelly, Head Coach: Dodd Trophy, which is handed out to the coach of the week. This was…

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Irish in the NFL Week 9: Will Fuller and Harrison Smith Both Have Big Games

Irish in the NFL Week 9: Will Fuller and Harrison Smith Both Have Big Games

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Week 9 recap: Another week of NFL football and another big week from Will Fuller and Chase Claypool. Fuller’s name was being tossed around right before the trade deadline but he ended up not getting dealt, and he put on a show for the Texans this week with 100 yards receiving and 1 touchdown. Claypool and the Steelers snuck out from Dallas with a win and a perfect record still intact; impressively, Claypool led the team in catches with 8….

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