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I know a lot of it is because we are Notre Dame Football fans, but it really feels like the majority of the college football conversation over the past week is the absolute unhinged reaction to what the college football playoff will look like next season. If you remember, there was a chance that the […]
Yeah so… please forgive me here. There was a significant lack of coverage for Notre Dame sports over the weekend, and all I can say is sorry — Winter Storm Fern, directly and indirectly, caused a few issues and some things went unreported here for our continuing conversation. So let’s just throw it all in […]
Rutgers wide receiver KJ Duff has been named to ESPN’s list of the top 100 college football players in the 2025 season. Duff came in at No.52, ahead of Notre Dame quarterback CJ Carr and behind Cal Defensive Back Hezekiah Masses. In 2025, Duff had 1,084 receiving yards and seven touchdowns. He also had several […]
Boston College built a commanding first half Saturday night but could not hold off a late surge, falling 68-64 at Notre Dame. The Eagles opened the game with sharp execution and took control early. Boston College scored the first eight points and extended the advantage behind confident shooting and steady ball movement. Fred Payne set […]
Saturday is a busy day with Clemson at Georgia Tech, NC State off to Pitt, Miami jetting up to Lower Canada to take on Syracuse, Virginia Tech in an interesting matchup with Louisville, FSU saddling up to take on the SMU Mustangs, BC battling the Fighting Irish, Cal at Stanford for the West Coast nightcap […]
We’ve had the new playoff system for two years now. Like last year, there were plenty of arguments about who should or shouldn’t have gotten in. Last year there was a lot of fuss about Alabama being left out, finishing the regular season ranked 11th. This Notre Dame was viewed as being snubbed, also ranked […]
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 […]
UNC earned a much-needed victory last night against Notre Dame behind yet another incredible performance from Caleb Wilson. Coming off the West Coast trip, it felt like this team needed to get back to some of the key things that led to them entering conference play with only one loss. The team played with more […]
Much like Tuesday, we saw one blowout on Wednesday and two close games: UNC hammered Notre Dame 91-69, Boston College nipped Pitt 65-62 and Virginia Tech snuck past Syracuse on the road, 76-74. UNC led from wire to wire and while the Irish were close at 26-23, that was the end of that: UNC just […]
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 […]
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 […]
Early Wednesday morning, BYU’s 2026 football schedule was finalized and released on social media. The Cougars recently announced an agreement with Notre Dame for a home-and-home series, beginning in 2026 in Provo. The schedule is now set. Here it is. Sat, Sep. 5 vs. Utah Tech (FCS) Sat, Sep. 12 vs. Arizona Sat, Sep. 19 […]
Will Stein is excited to work with his new quarterback, Kenny Minchey. Minchey chose Kentucky in the transfer portal after opting to leave Notre Dame. He initially committed to Nebraska, but about 24 hours later, flipped to Kentucky after Will Stein and Co. pivoted from Sam Leavitt. Minchey battled CJ Carr at Notre Dame for […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In Saturday’s ACC Action, Virginia visits SMU, Notre Dame and Virginia Tech tangle, Georgia Tech drops in on the Wolfpack, Syracuse and BC play in Beantown, Miami jets up to Clemson, Wake Forest plays Florida State, Louisville stops off at the Zoo and Duke and UNC wrap up the Bay trip with Stanford and Cal […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]