Blogs about Game previews and post game recaps.
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…
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….
The final score Saturday in Chicago was Notre Dame 41, Wisconsin 13. If you watched zero and just caught the final score, you may think that finally Notre Dame got something going on offense to answer some of the big questions. That couldn’t be any farther from the truth. Obviously with a score like that there was some good from Notre Dame on Saturday; the good was the Notre Dame defense, which was all around outstanding. The bad, like the…
Two power house programs are set to face-off in another installment of the Shamrock Series when Notre Dame lines up vs Wisconsin Saturday in Chicago. This top 25 matchup has national attention with ESPN, FOX and Barstool Sports all sending their College Football pregame shows to Chicago. I love the matchup of two great programs that haven’t played each other in years, but there are two things I would change. The first would be the time – this should not…
While looking at the 2021 Notre Dame schedule before the season started, I did not think the meaningful games would start until week 4 when the Fighting Irish traveled to Chicago to take on Wisconsin. Opening the season on the road vs. Florida State on prime time was a game to worry about, but following up with home games against a MAC team in Toledo and then a bottom half B1G team with Purdue didn’t really get the heart rate…
As soon as the College Football Playoffs were announced and that #4 Notre Dame would face #1 Alabama in the Rose Bowl, everyone said the game would be a blowout. On paper, the experts are not wrong, as Alabama is hands down the best team this year. Going into the game, Alabama is favored by 19 points, which is the biggest spread in the playoffs history. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t in the group of Irish…
Very few people outside of South Bend believe that Notre Dame can beat Clemson again on Saturday. Notre Dame for the most part out-played Clemson back in November, but yet the Irish come into the ACC Championship as a 10-point underdog. Yes, Clemson has Trevor Lawrence back, but Clemson still threw the ball at will last time these two teams played, and the Irish still came out with the win. Having Lawrence back for Clemson is huge, there is no…
If someone just looked at the box score and watched zero of the game Saturday, they would think that the Fighting Irish made quick work of Syracuse. If only that was the case. Syracuse came into the game 1 and 9 and looking the part. In my blog leading up to the game, I expected Notre Dame to make it look easy on Saturday; yes, at times they did, but it was anything but an easy win. The stat that…
Saturday will be the last game at Notre Dame for a group of seniors who have only lost 6 games since walking on campus back in 2017…and half of those losses came when they were freshmen. Covid-19 will prevent giving a proper send-off, but the goal doesn’t change: beat Syracuse and stay perfect at Notre Dame Stadium. There is very little, if anything, that worries me about Saturday’s game. As long as Notre Dame leaves the locker room and takes…