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….
News broke a little over month ago that Notre Dame would be taking on BYU in Las Vegas during the 2022 season in another installment of the Shamrock Series. This week we officially got word on the date of that game. It’ll be week 5 of the season on October 8th. There is good and bad about the Shamrock Series. The good part about the Shamrock Series (and the part I love) is that it takes the Irish to different…
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…