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BATON ROUGE, La. — Desmond Howard picked Texas to win the national championship Saturday on ESPN’s College GameDay. The former Michigan receiver and 1991 Heisman Trophy winner made the pick during the show’s season-opening broadcast from the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, La., when the desk was asked which two teams would play for the […]
The college football season starts this week, and national title talk is already turning heads. Brian Kelly is making those calls not from a sideline but from the studio now. His first big pick skipped both schools he used to coach. Kelly joined CBS Sports as a studio analyst after LSU fired him in October […] The post Fired Brian Kelly Makes Bold National Title Winner Prediction And It’s Not Notre Dame or LSU appeared first on EssentiallySports .
After winning three national titles in a row, the Big Ten is loaded and looking for a fourth.
Last year, Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi famously talked about how their game against Notre Dame didn’t really mean anything because it wasn’t an ACC conference game. Never mind the fact that Pitt was ranked and in the hunt for a college football playoff spot — Narduzzi put up the front that the game didn’t […]
It was a night of debuts in Fargo, North Dakota, on Saturday. On the field, the North Dakota State Bison were playing in their first game at the FBS level, hosting the Jacksonville State Gamecocks at the FargoDome. Meanwhile, up in the CBS Sports Network broadcast booth, former Notre Dame and LSU coach Brian Kelly…
The time has finally come. Notre Dame is about to step into game week with a matchup against the Wisconsin Badgers in Lambeau Field, and they just publicly announced their captains for the 2026 college football season. Quarterback CJ Carr #13 CAPTAINLinebacker Drayk Bowen #34 CAPTAINSafety Adon Shuler #8 CAPTAINWide Receiver Jordan Faison #6 CAPTAIN […]
ESPN's FPI crunched the numbers on Notre Dame's week-by-week ledger and gave its indication that it might be a special season. The post ESPN’s FPI predicts the outcome of every game on Notre Dame’s 2026 schedule appeared first on Saturday Down South .
Notre Dame is not only a popular pick to win a National Championship in the new college football season, but […]
The best option is a triple option — however it’s lined up. HOW IS NOTRE DAME OVERRATED WITH ALL OF THIS TALENT? As the offseason/preseason comes to an end, Notre Dame is still being catcalled by idiot fan here and idiot fan there. The word “overrated” is a word consistently used by those that just […]
One of the strangest parts of the 2025 college football season for Notre Dame was their kicking situation (among a long list of strangeness). The Irish appear to have corrected the problem with transfer Spencer Porath, so today, let’s be grateful for kickers.
Expectations are through the roof for Notre Dame football in 2026. Rece Davis recently declared that Notre Dame is the favorite to win the national championship. After missing the College Football Playoffs in 2025, the team is set for a run in 2026. Now, more experts are also selecting Notre Dame to win it all, […] The post Notre Dame national championship buzz shoots to stratosphere with expert picks appeared first on ClutchPoints .
An injury that the Irish have been monitoring is now a definite "OUT" for Week 1.
Prices continue to fluctuate ahead of Wisconsin's big first season matchup against No. 4 Notre Dame.
Brian Kelly is without a coaching job for the 2026 college football season, but he’s attempting to stay relevant in the media. SiriusXM announced Kelly is joining their College Sports Radio channel this season, with the former Notre Dame and LSU head football coach co-hosting a weekly show with Danny Kanell and Roy Philpott. The…
There are many options in the world, but we make it a triple option. ABOUT THAT NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL DEPTH CHART I’ve covered college football long enough to understand that anything said before the week one game can be interpreted as number of different ways. The depth chart, for example, is one of the biggest […]
I don’t make Notre Dame football predictions. There are several reasons for this, the most important being that I am a Notre Dame fan and therefore understand that whatever I predict will almost certainly become my fault. Predict 12-0? Loss. Call a game a “sure thing”? You’ve doomed us all. Say, “I’m really not worried […]
Notre Dame has reportedly come out in agreement with the SEC and B1G's decision to prevent pro athletes from playing at the university. The post Notre Dame ‘aligned’ with SEC and B1G’s policies banning pro football players, per report appeared first on Saturday Down South .
Well-known football media personality Kirk Herbstreit was one of many casting shade on Indiana following its first round loss in the 2024 College Football Playoff. Herbstreit famously said IU was “not a team that should have been on that field” following its 27-17 defeat against Notre Dame in South Bend. But Indiana went out and [...]
Just the other day, I talked about how absolutely DONE I am with the Notre Dame and college football offseason. One of the reasons has been the preseason prognostications. I know it’s weird, but while I’m usually calling out media outlets for a lack of respect for Notre Dame — I’m asking that they now […]
Wisconsin will need to find answers quickly for a specific unit that is a huge strength for Notre Dame.
I asked myself a really tough question on Sunday. What am I looking forward to more, the start of the Notre Dame football season or the end of the Notre Dame football offseason? A philosophy major out there will probably tell me that the two can’t be separated, but of course they can. We don’t […]
#1 – UNC || #2 – NC State || #3 – Wake Forest || #4 – Virginia || #5 – Clemson||#6 – Miami || #7 – Louisville || #8 – Pitt || #9 – Georgia Tech || #10 – Syracuse || #11 – Boston College || #12 – Virginia Tech || #13 – Florida State Over the last eight months or so, there has been a conversation, mostly quiet but occasionally quite public, about whether […]
The season is almost here, and we have one game from the last one left to discuss before jumping into it. Notre Dame closes 2026 at the Dome Formerly Known as Carrier, playing a team and quarterback it knows very well. A lot of people have this one circled as a potentially challenging game, and […]
The return of Mike Golic Sr. and Mike Golic Jr. to ESPN Radio has been one of the bigger stories in sports broadcasting this year. The father-and-son duo enjoyed a triumphant, smooth reunion with The Worldwide Leader in Sports earlier this month. The Golics airs 10 a.m.–noon ET weekdays and is also simulcast live on…
The Big 12’s sponsorship deal with Monster Energy has faced resistance since it was first unveiled. First, there’s the idea that an entire college sports conference could sell its name, image, and likeness. Second, the entire conference signed over those rights for $20 million per year, at a price similar to what Notre Dame and Ohio State paid for…