A never-ending discussion about Notre Dame and the greater CFB landscape
You can feel it coming right? Well… maybe it’s coming. I mean — it’s probably coming, but is it coming for Notre Dame? College football is trying to figure itself out again which is nothing new. For decades. programs across the country have tried multiple ways to kind of “game” the system a little bit […]
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The Notre Dame women’s basketball team was back in action on Thursday night against the Miami Hurricanes inside Purcell Pavilion. The Irish were trying to shake off the beatdown that UConn recently handed them, and while nothing really seems fixed or better, Notre Dame was good enough to get a 74-66 ACC win over Miami.
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One of the really fun things to do over the course of the college football season is to critique all of the AP Top 25 voters each week about their Notre Dame ranking (or whatever). Their votes are very public, and they are held accountable by CFB fans. The coaches poll, however… yeah they don’t […]
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Some games stay with you not because everything went according to plan, but because nothing did—and someone unexpected stepped into the moment anyway. Notre Dame’s 2002 trip to East Lansing was one of those games. The Irish arrived undefeated, carrying the weight of recent frustration against Michigan State and knowing how thin the margin for […]
2 days ago | 1 read
The Notre Dame Men’s basketball team is more than struggling right now — they’re not even competitive inside the ACC. On Wednesday, they took another conference pounding, this time on the road against the North Carolina Tar Heels. Irish Fall 69-91 To #22/24 Tar Heels In Chapel Hill CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The Notre Dame Fighting […]
2 days ago | 1 read
With the 2025 season at last in the books and all my negativity about the state of college football exorcised, in the spirit of turning the page toward the future I thought it would be fun to revisit a recurring topic here at OFD – namely, Notre Dame’s continuing march toward playing every team in […]
2 days ago | 1 read
We have all sorts of good news coming in today. According to Blue and Gold’s Eric Hansen, Notre Dame defensive tackle, Jason Onye, has been granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA. Not even the new portal additions were as big of a deal for Notre Dame’s defensive line as this news about […]
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Here’s a fun surprise for Notre Dame fans… the #1 kicker in the 2026 football recruiting class just committed to Notre Dame. Micah is a 6-Star kicker and rated as #1 in the country according to Chris Sailer. He was previously committed and signed to the Michigan Wolverines but with the dismissal of Sherrone Moore, […]
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The college football season is over and with that comes the final poll rankings. In this new era of a 12 team playoff, the final rankings play second fiddle to the playoff field, but it’s still something important. Whether it’s a recruiting pitch or a state of the program or just a good old fashioned […]
3 days ago | 1 read
Welcome to day one of the 2026 Notre Dame Football season. I’m sure you can make an argument that it started much earlier, but I’m not — it’s today. Notre Dame has a ton of talent coming back in 2026, and is bringing in 36 new players via recruiting and the transfer portal (which is […]
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That’s an exciting title — isn’t it? That’s a thing in 2026 which, if it becomes reality, would mean the Irish have rightfully claimed their spot as the king of college football. It’s also something the Indiana Hoosiers just accomplished in the 2025 season… which just feels insane. So congrats to Indiana for winning the […]
4 days ago | 1 read
When I saw the spread for this women’s basketball game between Notre Dame and UConn was sitting at a healthy 29.5 points, I couldn’t help but think of just how far this program has actually fallen. That line, maybe even more than the actual 38 point beating, was the cold shower to wake us all […]
4 days ago | 1 read
I have nothing of real value to say here. It’s the National Championship Game tonight between the Indiana Hoosiers and the Miami Hurricanes. I have no dog in this fight, and to be honest, a meteor crashing into Miami wouldn’t be the worst of things to happen this week. Still… I’m taking this standing up, […]
4 days ago | 1 read
The bad news for the Notre Dame Men’s Basketball program continues to come at us. Just a day after the Irish lost their fourth straight game (all ACC games) we find out that Kebba Njie will miss the rest of the season with an injury. “Unfortunately, in a previous game, I sustained a knee injury […]
4 days ago | 4 reads
We’re very close to getting this nightmare over with — or maybe started — I don’t know, but the National Championship Game between the Indiana Hoosiers and Miami Hurricanes is being played on Monday night. We’ve seen a number of Notre Dame fans talk about not watching or paying attention to the college football playoff […]
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It’s been a tough road for Notre Dame so far in ACC play. We knew it would probably be a tough year for the Irish, and it has only been rougher since the loss of Markus Burton to injury. On Saturday, the irish lost to Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, 89-76. It was the fourth straight […]
6 days ago | 1 read
Here comes the national championship game between the Indiana Hoosiers and Miami Hurricanes. It’s been a wild ride for Notre Dame fans over the last month and a half, but as wild as that ride has been for fans — it had to be wilder for head coach Marcus Freeman. Through it all, very little […]
7 days ago | 1 read
There was hope in the air and Marcus Freeman in attendance as the Notre Dame women’s basketball team hosted the #9 ranked Louisville Cardinals — but no. After a good start in the first quarter, the Irish couldn’t match Louisville bucket for bucket throughout the game and lost, 79-66. No. 23 Irish Fall To No. […]
8 days ago | 2 reads
It’s safe to say that the Notre Dame Women’s basketball season has been a bit of a disappointment so far, but that doesn’t mean the season is coming to a screeching halt. Far from it. Notre Dame welcomes the #9 ranked Louisville Cardinals for an ACC showdown. Louisville is 6-0 in conference, so a win […]
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There are moments in Notre Dame football history that feel larger than the final score—games that announce something bigger is coming. The 1987 season opener against Michigan State was one of those moments. It was the first game of Notre Dame’s 100th season of football, and it came against a tough Spartan team led by […]
8 days ago | 1 read
Notre Dame is having a very good transfer portal season so far, and it just got better. Oregon defensive tackle, Tionne Gray, has committed to Notre Dame. The 6’6” 336 pound monster from St. Louis, Missouri, will have three years of eligibility remaining. Notre Dame went into the offseason in need of at least two […]
8 days ago | 1 read
Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman stepped up to the podium in the media room inside Notre Dame Stadium on Wednesday afternoon, and there was a bit of tension in the air. While this press conference fell under the category of “normal portal wrap up,” the events of the last month definitely made this something […]
9 days ago | 0 reads
We are quickly coming to the end of the transfer portal window for college football, and despite an insanely odd start for Marcus Freeman and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish — I think they just won. The Irish still have at least one public target on the board in Oregon DT Tionne Gray, but after […]
10 days ago | 1 read
Notre Dame just had a masterful two days with transfer portal commitments, and most Irish fans are applauding this fantastic effort. As much talent as the Irish are bringing in, there is one position that still feels a little light. Notre Dame went into the portal with some needs, and most had the Irish pegged […]
10 days ago | 1 read
If one were to examine the running score differential of this game compared to the one we just watched against Clemson, they’d look pretty darn similar. Miami was able to open up a bit of a lead in the second half and prevented Notre Dame from significantly cutting into it. However, the feel of this […]
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