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Notre Dame football emerged from Week 10 of the 2025-26 season with a 25-10 over Boston College. This victory places the team at 6-2 overall heading into the first release of College Football Playoff rankings. Most of the fanbase expected this game to be an uneventful box to check off before seeing what the Committee […]
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In a game that held a spread of 30.5 by kickoff, Notre Dame and Boston College found themselves in a clunker. The rule of a good team is, however, you win your clunkers. Notre Dame did that by a score of 25-10 and we can breathe a little bit. Notre Dame’s first two drives to […]
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It’s the Holy War between Notre Dame and Boston College for the Frank Leahy Memorial Bowl on All Saints Day. Someone call the pope and let him know what’s up. WHEN, WHERE, AND HOW TO WATCH When: Saturday, November 1 @ 3:30 PM ESTWhere: Alumni Stadium, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts How to watch: ESPN PODCAST PREVIEW ODDS According to […]
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The #12 ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish are in Chestnut Hill to face the Boston College Eagles. This isn’t, however, the Boston College team that the Irish normally have faced throughout the Holy War series… this team is really, really bad. BC has just one win this season, and that was in the season opener […]
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There’s a big college football weekend on deck, and it’s likely going to be wildly different for fans to watch the games as Disney has pulled ABC, ESPN, and Disney off of YouTube TV. Over the years, fans have grown acustomed to media contract negotiations happening during football season, and this year is no different. […]
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Over the course of this past week, a lot of things have been said about the rivalry between Notre Dame and Boston College. Perhaps the most common things said about the rivalry — is that it’s not a real rivalry. Irish fans have always been a little selective when using that term as opposed to […]
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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are slowly climbing up the rankings, and are now ranked #12 in the country following their bye week. The Irish now head east to take on one of the worst teams in the country, the Boston College Eagles. There is a massive 28.5 point spread this week, and this is […]
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Joshua, Jude, and Brendan are back on the pod machine to help everyone with this Notre Dame Football crusade. The Irish are traveling east to take on Boston College in the Holy War, Frank Leahy Memorial Bowl, Lifetime Revenge, or whatever you want to call it. The boys cover the entire scope of the college […]
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Currently, Notre Dame’s 2026 football recruiting class ranked #4 in the country by the 247 Team Composite and is a 27 man gem that has three 5-Stars and nine players ranked in the top 150. It’s the type of recruiting class that fans had envisioned when Notre Dame hired Marcus Freeman to be the head […]
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When Brian Ratigan first arrived at the University of Notre Dame in August of 1989, he felt like a tiny fish in a very big, very talented pond. Just months earlier, he had been one of the most celebrated high school athletes in the country — the Gatorade Player of the Year in Iowa, a […]
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How’d We Do Last Week? Wildly Inaccurate I mean… specifically calling out for Price to NOT have a kick return TD is pretty hilarious. Most Interesting ND Dominated the lines of scrimmage and played the game Michigan was desperately hoping to play. Most Accurate Im doing something a little unprecedented…..Irish in the Hammer has the […]
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It’s a HOLY WAR this week as the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Order of the Holy Cross travel to Chestnut Hill to take on the Boston College Eagles and the Jesuits. The two teams will be fighting for the Frank Leahy Memorial Bowl trophy will the student governments put the Ireland Trophy up […]
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Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Notre Dame fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. For almost 20 years I have flooded the internet with my personal love for rivalry […]
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On Tuesday, St. Joseph guard Nick Shrewsberry gave his public commitment to Notre Dame. Sorry, but I don’t have much to offer on this one.
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After a bye week, Notre Dame is back in action on the gridiron this week against the Boston College Eagles. The Irish are looking for its 2nd consecutive invitation to the college football playoff, while BC is looking for its second win of the season. Notre Dame is ranked #12 in the AP Poll, but […]
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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are finally back in action on Saturday as they travel to Chestnut Hill to take on the Boston College Eagles. Saturday will be the first day of November which is All Saints Day, so it’s quite fitting that the these two Catholic Schools play a college football game. November also […]
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Notre Dame is prepping to travel to New England to take on the Boston College Eagles in game eight of the Fighting Irish football season. Notre Dame has this one game to make a loud example of itself before the initial college football rankings come out. So — hearing Marcus Freeman talk about struggling raises […]
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On Monday, Notre Dame released its depth charts for the upcoming game against the Boston College Eagles. The list of injuries is starting to pile up, but the number of players not available at all this week remains the four that we knew about. No real shakeups this week. OFFENSE DEFENSE SPECIAL TEAMS
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College football is on fire right now. It’s more like a double fire though. The season itself has been outstanding with plenty of storylines all around and there are still over 30 schools that still have a fair chance at making the college football playoff. The HOTTEST thing about college football, however, isn’t the play […]
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Notre Dame is coming off of a bye weekand is currently ranked #12 in the country with a 5-2 record. The Irish know that they need to be as dominant as they can be in their final five games of the season to help make a lasting impression with the college football playoff committee. Ever […]
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Notre Dame got off to a rough start in 2025, but they looked like they fixed a few things in a 56-30 win over the Purdue Boilermakers and then the 56-13 win on the road against the Arkansas Razorbacks. They followed those two victories with two victories which covered massive spreads in a 28-7 win […]
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The Notre Dame football team sat back this past Saturday and ate their cheeseburgers during their final bye week of the season. In a weekend of mostly “meh” matchups, the final results once the clock went sero were also mostly “meh” as well. Don’t get me wrong — I found Saturday to be highly entertaining, […]
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The Notre Dame hockey season is well underway with new head coach Brock Sheahan, and are now sporting a 3-2-1 record to start the year. Robert Morris was the second of a pair of two game home series with out of conference foes… and the Irish just missed the sweep. From the ND press release:
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I hope everyone is enjoying their cheeseburgers this week as the Notre Dame Fighting Irish take the week off from playing college football. FUN FACT about me… I’ve had at least one cheeseburger every day since Sunday and could likely do another week without complaint. Anyways… enjoy this no stress weekend. It’s a fairly light […]
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As we are all set and ready to enjoy a Notre Dame Football bye week (also known as the cheeseburger bye week) the noise surrounding things OTHER than the college football playoff is starting to get turned up a notch or two. One of those things is the Heisman Trophy, and a name that is […]
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