A never-ending discussion about Notre Dame and the greater CFB landscape
Notre Dame running back, Jeremiyah Love, is the best and most outstanding player in the country. No one is going to convince me otherwise — but there is a certain trophy that he qualifies for that could turn his status to all-time college football legend. The Heisman Trophy. Jeremiyah Love Named Heisman Finalist SOUTH BEND, […]
Now that Notre Dame’s football season is over and done the work of roster management for nest year really picks up steam. On Monday, it has been reported that quarterback Kenny Minchey will enter the transfer portal. This shouldn’t be shocking to anyone as pretty much everyone said this was going to happen since August. […]
It was the ACC season opener for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish women’s basketball team, and they more than took care of business on the road with a 93-58 win over the Florida State Seminoles. From the ND press release:
Welp… This sucks. First things first, be honest. You. Yes, you, as a Notre Dame fan. In your heart of hearts, you KNOW that Miami deserved a spot in the CFP ahead of the Irish. The resumes are similar enough that the head-to-head win rightfully carried the day. The double-standard of the 1993 national championship […]
So… I just published the reasons why Notre Dame should make the decision to not accept any bowl invitation this year, and then I see they did IN FACT decide to opt out. They are 100% doing the right thing here. There is no need to help a system out that is hell bent on […]
Notre Dame fans are still a little shocked after today’s final college football playoff rankings that pushed the Irish back to #11 and OUT of the playoff. There is still plenty of time to slam the committee, scientologists, drug lords, and whoever else you want for this snubbing — but there is some business at […]
The college football playoff committee is the most corrupt body in all of sports (and with FIFA that’s saying something). As the playoff rankings were unveiled we saw no movement in the top 8, and then it got ridiculous. Notre Dame is OUT of the college football playoff. Alabama, who was just blown out by […]
The college football regular season is over and done, and here comes the postseason. Obviously as an Independent, Notre Dame won’t be participating this weekend, but the impact from some of those games could be massive. There are multiple scenarios that have the Irish IN and OUT of the college football playoff due to certain […]
I wrote in the recap of the Missouri game that it was the most important game of Micah Shrewsberry’s tenure thus far at Notre Dame, and I stand by it. Yet, this one didn’t feel any less huge. By beating Missouri, Notre Dame earned the right to have tonight’s game mean something. A win would […]
This part of the ACC-Notre Dame stats series is focused on team-level stats. Offense Points Scored The Irish would’ve been ranked first in the ACC for points scored per game. The team averaged 42 points per game during the 2025-26 season. Pitt (8-4) was a ways off at #2 with 35.1 points scored per game. Stanford […]
The college football regular season is over and done, and here comes the postseason. Obviously as an Independent, Notre Dame won’t be participating this weekend, but the impact from some of those games could be massive. There are multiple scenarios that have the Irish IN and OUT of the college football playoff due to certain […]
This week, we’re heading back to one of the most defining statements of the Ara Parseghian era — a day when Notre Dame didn’t just win, they announced themselves to the nation. Long before playoff brackets and Twitter debates, the Irish traveled to Norman in 1966 for a clash of unbeatens that was billed as […]
Joshua and Jude celebrate Brendan’s birthday by opening the pod portal without him, because the Notre Dame Football universe doesn’t stop. In this episode: And MUCH more weaved inand out of the show. Please RATE and REVIEW! All reviews left on Apple Podcasts will be read on the next Earned 5-Star Podcast. Go Irish!
One by one, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will add new members to its football family during the early signing period for the 2026 recruiting class. Rather than beat the site down with a profile piece after each of the recruits sent in their NLI, we simply offer this recruiting tracker for the day. OFD will offer […]
Without exaggeration, tonight’s contest against the Missouri Tigers represented the most important game of the Micah Shrewsberry era to-date. Expectations are for the program to be in the hunt for an NCAA tournament bid, and for that to be a realistic possibility, there needs to be a quality non-conference win to point to. Beating Houston […]
The penultimate set of College Football Playoff rankings were released and the committee decided to move Notre Dame down to #10 and Alabama up to #9. If you’ve been paying attention to me over the past few weeks — this is pretty much what I expected from the committee. They want Bama in the playoff […]
It’s National Signing Day on Wednesday for Notre Dame Football and the rest of the country. Over the years we have seen the calendar change several times for the recruiting cycle, and this year brings another change as the early period for Signing Day is sooner than it’s ever been — which is fine. Now […]
The 2025-26 regular season is closed for Notre Dame football. The team’s final record was 10-2 and all signs point to a College Football Playoff berth. It’s also time for the annual intensification of arguments about why the Irish’s Independent status should: 1 Automatically bar them from CFP participation 2. Completely bar them from Power […]
Well, I don’t know about a lot of you Eastern timers, but I was (barely) awake for every snap on Saturday night/Sunday morning. That was rough, and an experience I don’t really want to go through again. Thankfully, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish had the Stanford Cardinal taken care of pretty much by the end […]
The Notre Dame football team has finished the regular season and are awaiting to see what will happen for the post season — namely, the college football playoff. Despite the loss in Miami, and against Texas A&M, the Irish still have a chance to bring home its 23rd national championship thanks to doing what they […]
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 […]
On a weekend that mostly featured big-brother wins over little-brother rivals (RIP Texas A&M’s perfect season, you came so close; congratulations Vanderbilt on breaking the mold), Notre Dame did its part and pounded Stanford, 49-20 out on the farm. It was the fourth game of five after Notre Dame’s bye in which the Irish beat […]
On Sunday, the final rankings of the regular season were released by the AP Top 25 and Coaches Poll. Both sets of rankings put Notre Dame at #9, which is where they’ve been for several weeks now. Of course these rankings are mostly meaningless until the final rankings release after the National Championship game, but […]
It’s kind of like Notre Dame knew it had to be on a mission with its trip to Palo Alto to take on the Stanford Cardinal for the Legends Trophy, and perhaps, a potential berth in the college football playoff. The game ended 49-20, but the Irish won this game before halftime. Notre Dame scored […]
Notre Dame is on the road in California to finish its regular season. The Irish will take on the Stanford Cardinal for the rights to the Legends Trophy, and the stakes are very high. Regardless of all of the talk concerning scenarios, it’s still mostly a WIN AND YOU’RE IN game for Notre Dame. That’s […]