One Foot Down

Photo by Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Oh buddy Despite the plentiful takes about how rotten the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team is after a terrible loss at home to the Northern Illinois Huskies — Vegas is a little kinder with the boys in Blue and Gold. According to FanDuel, Notre Dame is an 11.5 point favorite this weekend against the Purdue … [Read more...] about Opening Odds: Notre Dame is a double digit favorite over Purdue

Matt Cashore-Imagn Images Season got real weird, real quick On Sunday, both the AP Top 25 and Coaches Poll released their latest set of rankings. Going into the Northern Illinois game, Notre Dame was ranked #5 by the AP and #7 by the coaches. The 16-14 loss to NIU sent the Irish tumbling — but maybe not far enough after one of the worst performances I’ve ever seen by an … [Read more...] about Somehow the Irish remain ranked in the top 25

Matt Cashore-Imagn Images ... The last thing I want to be doing right now is writing this. But I have to eventually, so might as well rip off the band-aid. It should be said at the outset that the lone bright spot for Notre Dame is that they can still make the newly-expanded 12-team College Football Playoff so long as they win the remainder of their games. As for the … [Read more...] about Notre Dame Loses to Northern Illinois: There Are No Words…

Matt Cashore-Imagn Images Some thoughts might be warranted after yesterday I am dead inside. Um, ok. So, that game happened yesterday. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish played a football game that we have seen with them “playing” games with the likes of 2022 Marshall and Stanford. I don’t really know what in the hell all of that was. The anger is really just numbness at … [Read more...] about Overreactions after Irish loss to Northern Illinois

Photo by Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The data story coming out of the Irish’s gut-wrenching 16-14 loss to the Huskies. Welp. It’s one of my favorite words, accompanied by a shoulder shrug, to describe a lot of things (not just Notre Dame football) these days. It’s a simple but effective word that can convey disappointment in how something played out, … [Read more...] about Week 2 Review: Notre Dame VS NIU