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After a close 27-24 road loss at Miami, the Notre Dame football program has already moved forward towards Week 2. After travelling to Texas A&M last season, the Notre Dame football team will host the Aggies in their first home game of 2025. Despite the season-opening defeat, the Fighting Irish are still ranked eighth overall […]

The 2025 Notre Dame football season has started slowly this year. The Fighting Irish looked sluggish in their first game against the Miami Hurricanes. After a comeback, they lost a close game, and then they had week two off due to an early bye week. They have a massive game against Texas A&M this week […]

The 2025 Notre Dame football team has gotten off to a weird start. They lost in a close game against Miami to start the season, but then had an immediate bye week. Next, the Fighting Irish get a visit from the Texas A&M football team. The Aggies looked good to start the year, but visiting […]

Notre Dame football delivered this stunning hat trick during Week 1 of college football. The No. 6 ranked Fighting Irish became the third top 6 team to fall during the weekend. Taking a gut-wrenching 27-24 loss to Miami on Sunday. Top ranked Texas and No. 4 Clemson got handed losses before the primetime showdown inside […]

When No. 6 Notre Dame faced No. 10 Miami in Week 1, it was billed as one of the marquee games of the opening weekend of college football. Expectations were sky-high, and even Paul Finebaum guaranteed a Fighting Irish win. Instead, Hard Rock Stadium turned into a nightmare as the Hurricanes pulled off a 27-24 […]

The No. 6 Notre Dame football team got off to a bad start in its 2025 campaign. On Sunday, Marcus Freeman’s Fighting Irish took a major stumble right out of the gate, falling prey to Mario Cristobal’s No. 10 Miami Hurricanes at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. Notre Dame fell behind early in […]

Notre Dame football freshman quarterback CJ Carr didn’t shy away from his biggest mistake in the Fighting Irish’s tough loss to Miami. In a tense fourth-quarter moment, CJ Carr threw a costly interception that shifted the game’s momentum. Afterward, the young signal-caller admitted he should have handed the ball off to Jeremiyah Love instead. According […]

Notre Dame may have come up short in its season opener at Miami, but head football coach Marcus Freeman left Hard Rock Stadium with no doubts about his new quarterback. Speaking after the 27–24 loss, Freeman delivered a strong endorsement of redshirt freshman CJ Carr, who was making his first career start. “He’s going to […]

Carson Beck was emotional following his debut with the Miami Hurricanes in their season opener against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Sunday night. Beck spent the first five years of his collegiate career with the Georgia Bulldogs. He redshirted in 2020 then spent the next two years as a backup until he finally earned […]

The Fighting Irish enter 2025 carrying the weight of both expectation and unfinished business. After coming within a single game of capturing their first national championship since 1988, Marcus Freeman’s squad knows the bar has been raised. The Irish faithful demand more than playoff appearances now. They crave hardware. With a roster built on veteran […]

The USC football program has two significant rivalries on its schedule. First, they play UCLA, and then Notre Dame in a unique cross-country matchup. The USC-Notre Dame rivalry is one of the most unique rivalry games in the sport due to that factor, but due to the changing landscape in college football, there were questions […]

The Notre Dame football program is famously independent, and even as college football conferences expand and become ‘superconferences’, the Irish are seemingly going to fight any effort to give up their independence. For decades, the Big Ten has been the most logical landing spot for Notre Dame football if it ever was effectively forced to […]

Notre Dame Fighting Irish football fans are buzzing about a bigger role for Jeremiyah Love in 2025. Reports say his role on offense is set to expand. Notre Dame football watchers expect to see him more involved in the passing game. The Fighting Irish are planning to get Love the ball in space more often. […]

The Notre Dame football team enters the season with a No. 6 ranking in the preseason poll and fresh off a trip to the College Football Playoff national title game. The Irish saw Riley Leonard leave for the NFL, and in turn, Notre Dame named CJ Carr as its starting quarterback. Still, Jeremiyah Love returns […]

The Notre Dame football program enters the season with high hopes once again. In 2024, Notre Dame had a thrilling run to the College Football Playoff national title game before losing to Ohio State, 34-23. Although Riley Leonard is now in the NFL, Notre Dame is still ranked No. 6 in the preseason polls and […]

The Notre Dame football program is currently counting down the days until the 2025 season gets underway, in which they will look to build off their national championship game appearance from a year ago. Head coach Marcus Freeman proved a lot of his skeptics wrong last year in leading the Fighting Irish to the game’s […]

Coming off of a national title game appearance, it would only be natural for Notre Dame football to have a bit of a letdown in 2025. However, Marcus Freeman and company are hoping that isn’t the case and that the Fighting Irish will be right back at the top of the sport again this fall. […]

When No. 6 Notre Dame meets No. 10 Miami in Week 1 of the college football season this weekend, it will be one of the biggest games of the year for both teams. Each program enters 2025 with major aspirations shaped by how last season ended. The Fighting Irish are coming off a national championship […]

With the Notre Dame football team facing the University of Miami to open the season, it will be another year led by head coach Marcus Freeman. While fans predict how the Notre Dame football team will play this season, Freeman speaks on the abundance of players where their fathers are former NFL players. Freeman would […]

A big season opener awaits Marcus Freeman and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. They face the Miami Hurricanes to kick off the 2025 season, which had college football analyst Paul Finebaum give his take on the matchup. Notre Dame is coming off a remarkable 2024 campaign, reaching the national championship game before losing to Ohio […]

Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman made his decision this week to name CJ Carr his starting quarterback. Really, the move wasn’t all that surprising, even though the quarterback battle was said to be neck-and-neck throughout camp. “It could have gone either way,” one source told CBS Sports’ Chris Hummer. “I think it was 50-50 […]

The Notre Dame football program is looking forward to what should be another strong 2025 season on the heels of their national championship game appearance a year ago. Notre Dame will once again be coached by Marcus Freeman, who has quickly risen the ranks of the college football landscape, and who also recently named CJ […]

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish enter the 2025-26 season ranked within the Top 10 (No. 6 in AP Poll and No. 5 in Coach’s Poll). Expectations are high after the program reached the national championship, which resulted in a 34-23 loss to the Ohio State Buckeyes. With a new season ahead, it sounds like one […]

One of the main tasks for Notre Dame football this offseason was to replace quarterback Riley Leonard, who departed to the NFL after leading the Fighting Irish all the way to the national championship game last season. After Steve Angeli transferred to Syracuse following spring practice, questions arose about who would be the new man […]

The 2025 Notre Dame football team was interesting because it made a big run to the National Championship before losing to Ohio State. The Fighting Irish bring back 11 starters from last year’s squad, highlighted by a Heisman-caliber running back in Jeremiyah Love in the backfield. The quarterback position is a massive question mark that […]

Notre Dame football starts its march back to the national title picture at No. 6 overall. Head coach Marcus Freeman and company face renewed expectations and enthusiasm in South Bend. Especially after landing in the top 10 of the AP Top 25 rankings. There’s not just national championship thoughts in the atmosphere on campus. Returning […]

After a year in which the Notre Dame football team reached the national championship game, the Irish have a big question to answer: Who will start at quarterback? And while Week 1 of the season in quickly approaching, Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman remains tight-lipped. “Marcus Freeman says the Notre Dame quarterback competition is […]

The 2025 Notre Dame football team is set for a big year in South Bend. Last season, they ran to the national championship before ultimately losing to Ohio State. This year, the biggest key for the Fighting Irish will be what the ground game looks like, thanks to Jeremiyah Love, who will carry this offense […]

The 2025 offseason quarterback battle within the Notre Dame football program has been much closer than many anticipated. While redshirt freshman CJ Carr looked like the clear answer in the fall, sophomore Kenny Minchey has taken a late lead two weeks ahead of Week 1. Many fans immediately pegged Carr as Riley Leonard’s successor, but […]

Notre Dame football comes into the season ranked sixth in the preseason AP Top 25. After finishing the season with a loss to Ohio State in the National Title Game, hopes are high in South Bend. As they get ready to open the season against Miami (FL) on August 31, there are still position battles […]

The Notre Dame football season begins in less than three weeks, and it is starting with a bang. The Fighting Irish will hit the road in Week 1 for a rivalry matchup against Miami. It is officially a top-10 matchup after the preseason AP Poll’s release on Monday as Notre Dame is No. 6 and […]

Notre Dame football is 22 days away from facing national contender Miami in the 2025 opener. But the Fighting Irish and Marcus Freeman are still working behind the scenes in landing future talent. Including securing a crucial four-star commitment Saturday. Head coach Freeman and his staff won over one of the top uncommitted players left. […]

With the 2025 regular season quickly approaching, the Notre Dame football team are in the midst of preseason camp. 2024 was pretty successful, but ultimately a failure. The Fighting Irish are focused on competing for national championships each season. While they came close, the Notre Dame football program fell short in the College Football Playoff […]

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are preparing for the upcoming season with big hopes of reaching the National Championship once again. Only this time, the program hopes to win after suffering a 34-23 loss to the Ohio State Buckeyes. At the very least, the quarterback position might be something the team can lean on, as […]

Brian Kelly is about to enter his fourth year as the head coach of the LSU football team, and he hasn’t had a lot of success yet. He was the head coach of Notre Dame for 12 years before coming to the Tigers, and he came so that he could compete for national championships. Well, […]

Gi’Bran Payne may have been a forgotten man on the side of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish after not seeing action for the entire 2024 college football season, but he’s staying in South Bend. Payne is looking to turn heads anew in his return to action with Notre Dame football following a whole season of […]

Despite claiming he will win the 2025 Heisman Trophy award, Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love insists that he is not focused on his individual hype ahead of the upcoming college football season. Instead, Love maintains that his primary focus is on helping the Irish be the best version they can be in 2025. After […]

Notre Dame fell short against Ohio State in the 2024-2025 College Football Playoffs National Championship Game but is nonetheless among the favorites to take the throne in 2025. Their loaded running back room, led by Jeremiyah Love, is a big reason why Irish fans are confident in the team’s potential. The running back room is not […]

As the son of NFL legend Larry Fitzgerald, most expected Devin Fitzgerald to follow in his father’s footsteps with Pittsburgh. Instead, the three-star receiver committed to Notre Dame for the 2026 college football season, citing a desire to create his own legacy. While acknowledging that his father will always be a part of his story, […]