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The Fighting Irish will try to make it back to the College Football Playoff.

We have finally arrived to the real week one of college football, and it gets more real as the Notre Dame Fighting Irish travel north to Lambeau Field to take own the Wisconsin Badgers in a...

Notre Dame has provided its availability update (AKA an injury report) as the Irish get set to take on the Wisconsin Badgers in Lambeau Field. There are no real surprises here. The biggest unknown...

The No. 4 Fighting Irish are on the shortlist of national championship contenders this season

At some point we knew this would happen… the Anti-Preview is back for the Notre Dame football season. This week the Notre Dame Fighting Irish head north to take on the Wisconsin Badgers at Lambeau...

Notre Dame is taking on Wisconsin at Lambeau Field on Sunday, so what better way to get ready for the game than to celebrate something both schools love… big-beefy boys. We offer just a small...

Lane at LSU, Arch's next steps, Indiana's title defense and more give college football fans plenty to watch.

IT’S FINALLY HERE!!! It was nice to get a tiny taste of college football last weekend with Week 0 action, but nothing quite hits like Week 1 and its full slate of games occurring over the long...

Notre Dame is a popular national title pick among college football media.

The biggest question ahead of the 2027 NFL Draft is where Texas quarterback Arch Manning will land. Here's Sporting News' second first-round mock draft for the class, projecting where Manning and...

A Heisman preseason favorite hasn't won the award in more than a decade as Week 1 kicks off

My dad has been reminiscing a lot this week. With Notre Dame and Wisconsin preparing to meet again this weekend, his thoughts have gone back 62 years, to the first football game of his senior year...

Notre Dame announced via social media that the Irish will be wearing “LOU” stickers on the helmets this college football season to honor the late Lou Holtz. We all knew this was going to be a...

Football is BACK. I am also writing this coming off the birth (on Sunday) of my third child…..which might seem overwhelming for some, but for me, I am officially on paternity leave. This makes me...

Holtz, who died in March, won 100 games and a national championship with Notre Dame over 11 seasons

Notre Dame’s Leonard Moore is widely considered to not only be the best cornerback in the country, but perhaps the best defensive player in the country as well. Moore’s next “test” comes against a...

Preparation is paramount for Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman, who understands the importance of the first game of the season and has plenty of first-h

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...

It’s a big day for One Foot Down. Today, the SB Nation app is live, and it’s the best way to follow the Fighting Irish.  I personally have been testing the app for about a month, and it has been a...

Marcus Freeman took the podium on Monday to begin the first game week for Notre Dame this season as the Irish travel to Green Bay to take on the Wisconsin Badgers in the Shamrock Series. While his...

Notre Dame will start another college football season on the road, but it will have that HOME flavor as it’s a Shamrock Series game. The Irish are considered to be one of the favorites to win the...

We’re not in August anymore, but we’re still in the midwest in early September for Notre Dame’s season opener against the Wisconsin Badgers at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. So… there could be a...

Are we really there? Is it finally GAME WEEK for Notre Dame Football? Yes my friends – we are here. It’s honestly been one of those offseasons that just gutted the hell out of everyone. The way...

Notre Dame started week one with Marcus Freeman’s opening presser (more to come on that) as well as the injury report and depth charts. I can’t say I’m too surprised about any of this right now as...

Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell said his team won't avoid throwing at Notre Dame star cornerback Leonard Moore.

Notre Dame’s 2026 college football schedule has been called many thing over the last eight months, but “tough” or anywhere near the word “hard” was certainly not among them. Still, some have...

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...

David Purdum dives into the biggest betting storylines in college football heading into the season.

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...

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...

Four different schools checked in at No. 1.

Let’s have a little fun today… If the US government decided it was going to go all in with NIL and everything else with a service academy to win a national championship — which one gets it done?...

If you haven’t heard by now, Kate Koval is leaving the LSU Tigers. The former Notre Dame women’s basketball player was not happy that LSU Tigers head coach Kim Mulkey signed a Russian player, and...

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...

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...

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...

Remember when Notre Dame did some fun videos to release other versions of their Shamrock Series uniforms? Yeah — good times. For this year’s game against the Wisconsin Badgers inside Lambeau...

We had five games in the Cubs‘ minor league system on Sunday, with Myrtle Beach having the honor of playing a doubleheader after weather issues this weekend. Iowa and South Bend each picked up...

Is the SEC going to get back to competing for national titles?

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...

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...

Three years ago, Notre Dame signed a 10 year contract extension with Under Armour. The first deal between Notre Dame and Under Armour started in 2014, and at the time, it was viewed more as a...

Notre Dame wrapped up its fall camp on Friday with a 100 play scimmage. Marcus Freeman then went and took questions from the media, and the single biggest takeaway from that presser is that this...

Wisconsin and Notre Dame kick off the 2026 football season at Lambeau Field. Here's what to know about tickets to the matchup.

Notre Dame won't be adding players from the 2022 recruiting class who could be eligible to play this fall because of recent legal decisions including Junior Tuihalamaka, who has committed to LSU.

Notre Dame’s defense in 2026 is going to be elite. A big reason why is that the Irish are absolutely stacked at multiple positions with some of the best talent in the country. The Bednarik Award...

The year was 2005, and there was a lot of hope for the future for Notre Dame football. Some of that hope came from the play of individuals we often overlook 20 years later. Here are a few of those...

Whether it's head coach vs. head coach or coordinators matching wits, the outcomes of several nationally ranked matchups will hang in the balance

Notre Dame legend Aaron Taylor breaks down the Fighting Irish offensive line's fall camp struggles and delivers a bold prediction for the Indiana Hoosiers' front seven.

Sometimes it’s better to have more than one or two options… so use the triple option. BRADY QUINN AND THE TRANSFER PORTAL Former Notre Dame quarterback, Brady Quinn, bleeds blue and gold. The...