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Marcus Freeman and the Notre Dame football team are two wins away from claiming the program’s first national championship since 1988, but Freeman is collecting hardware before the College Football Playoff semifinals can even begin. Despite losing an early-season game vs. Northern Illinois, the Irish have been otherwise stellar. Notre Dame currently sports a 13-1 […]

Notre Dame’s star running back Jeremiyah Love, who has been battling a knee injury, is set to take the field against Penn State in the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Orange Bowl on Thursday night. Head coach Marcus Freeman provided the encouraging update during a joint press conference with Penn State coach James Franklin […]

Ahead of Thursday’s College Football Playoff semifinal against Notre Dame, Penn State head coach James Franklin has provided an important, albeit murky, update on the status of star defensive end Abdul Carter. In dealing with an upper-body injury sustained during the Fiesta Bowl quarterfinal win over Boise State, Carter is expected to be a game-time […]

Riley Leonard can expound upon his success against Penn State in the Orange Bowl.

Notre Dame football heads into the Orange Bowl against No. 4 Penn State coming off of its biggest win in decades. Head coach Marcus Freeman propelled the Fighting Irish to an impressive Sugar Bowl victory over No. 2 Georgia. This result marked the first time Notre Dame won a New Year’s Six caliber bowl game […]

The Notre Dame football team is set to take on Penn State in the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Orange Bowl on Thursday night, and it’s looking like running back Jeremiyah Love will be good to go. Love went down with a knee injury in the third quarter of the Sugar Bowl against Georgia, […]

The College Football Playoff semifinals are almost here. We started with 12, and there are now just four teams remaining in the hunt for the national championship: five seed Texas, six seed Penn State, seven seed Notre Dame and eight seed Ohio State. The Nittany Lions and Fighting Irish will do battle first as they […]

Notre Dame football relied on defense and the legs of Riley Leonard to keep their season alive on Jan. 2. The Fighting Irish are now positioned to clinch their first national championship game appearance since the 2012 season. Penn State is now on deck in the Orange Bowl, with the Nittany Lions also looking to […]

Before the 12-team College Football Playoff, Penn State was often the perennial bridesmaid, never the bride. In recent years, the Nittany Lions have frequently been on the outside looking in when it came to the four-team playoff, while their Big Ten rivals Ohio State and Michigan earned top-four spots. Now, with a win over Notre […]

Notre Dame football is itching for its first national title victory since 1988. The Fighting Irish have trusted running back Jeremiyah Love to help attempt to end the championship drought. Now, Penn State stands in the way in the College Football Playoffs at the Orange Bowl. Love and the Irish must scale the Nittany Lions […]

The College Football Playoff continues with the Orange Bowl between No. 7 Notre Dame and No. 6 Penn State. It is time to continue our college football odds series with a Notre Dame-Penn State prediction and pick. Notre Dame-Penn State Last Game – Matchup History The last matchup between Notre Dame and Penn State took […]

On Thursday, Georgia football’s season came to an end. The Bulldogs fell to Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl, with the final score being 23-10. The late-game magic that propelled Georgia in their last two games was nowhere to be found. Down by more than two scores early in the third quarter, Georgia’s attempt at […]

The narrative coming into the College Football Playoff quarterfinals at the Sugar Bowl on Thursday was that Notre Dame still couldn’t beat the big boys and knock off a traditional powerhouse. Marcus Freeman and the Irish put all of that noise to bed with a convincing 23-10 win over Georgia to advance to the semifinals. […]

During their record-setting 23-10 victory over Georgia in the Allstate Sugar Bowl, Pat McAfee gave Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard the ultimate endorsement on X. “Man… I very much underestimated how much of a DAWWWGGG Riley Leonard is,” McAfee wrote, reaching nearly 500,000 X users in three hours. As a major name in the college […]

Notre Dame football turned to more than defense to run over Georgia 23-10 in the Sugar Bowl Thursday. Head coach Marcus Freeman watched his quarterback Riley Leonard carry the team on multiple occasions. Leonard faced a barrage of pressure from the Bulldogs. Georgia bottled him to a dismal 90 passing yards. Leonard, however, became a […]

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish made history in their 23-10 win over the Georgia Bulldogs in the Sugar Bowl. The win that secured Notre Dame football a spot in the College Football Playoff Semifinals was its 13th win of the season, the first time that has been accomplished in program history. In addition to setting […]

The Notre Dame football program will play in the College Football Playoff semifinal next week after defeating the Georgia Bulldogs on Thursday, 23-10, in the Sugar Bowl. It was not always pretty, but Notre Dame did enough on both sides of the ball to exit victorious. Players were, of course, playing with heavy hearts after […]

The Georgia football team will take on Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals at the Sugar Bowl on Thursday. These two teams were supposed to meet up on Wednesday night, but the game was postponed because of the tragic attack in New Orleans on Wednesday morning. The Bulldogs have had a lot of […]

In a society such as the one we live in, where sport — and particularly football — is engrained into fabric of our culture, it’s easy to forget about everything else until everything else puts an abrupt stop to sport. One of the most unforgettable moments of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic is when the NCAA […]

The end of 2024 and the start of the new year have seen a number of fun bowl games and battles in the first iteration of the 12-team College Football Playoff. Jan. 1 was supposed to feature three postseason games with Texans vs. Arizona State, Ohio State vs. Oregon, and Notre Dame vs. Georgia on […]

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, a horrific attack took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, in which a vehicle plowed through a slew of pedestrians celebrating New Year’s near Bourbon Street. The attack took the lives of at least ten people and injured dozens of others. New Orleans is slated to host the Sugar […]

The Sugar Bowl showdown between the Georgia Bulldogs and Notre Dame Fighting Irish has been postponed to Thursday after a terrorist attack on Bourbon Street, according to Erin Lowrey of WDSU News in New Orleans and confirmed by Sugar Bowl officials. The initial agreement was a 24-hour postponement from the scheduled 8:45 p.m. ET start, […]

Notre Dame football will take on Georgia in one of the most anticipated College Football Playoff quarterfinal matchups. The 2025 Sugar Bowl gives Marcus Freeman’s team the chance to announce themselves as true national title contenders. Despite Notre Dame’s. huge opportunity and Georgia’s recent string of injuries, the No. 2 ranked team in the country […]

The Georgia Bulldogs are back in the Sugar Bowl for the first time since the 2020 game, when they defeated the Baylor Bears 26-14. This time, the stakes are much higher, as they take on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in a quarterfinal matchup of the College Football Playoff. It’s been a turbulent road for […]

Ahead of its College Football Playoff quarterfinal clash against Georgia, Notre Dame football got an encouraging update on one of its promising young players. Freshman quarterback CJ Carr has been dealing with an injury to his throwing elbow all season long, but he is getting close to being healthy. On Monday, Carr delivered a short […]

The quarterfinals will no doubt be fireworks. As the next set of College Football Playoff games ensues in the coming days, fans are in for plenty of high-level action as the top four seeds finally take the field. One of these teams is Georgia football, which garnered a first-round bye courtesy of an SEC Championship […]

Though it didn’t always look certain, the No. 2 Georgia Bulldogs were able to win the SEC Championship and earn a first-round bye as one of the four highest ranked conference champions to play in this year’s Sugar Bowl. The Bulldogs (11-2) will now play No. 5 Notre Dame (12-1) in a quarterfinal matchup of […]

Notre Dame capitalized on their third College Football Playoff appearance, defeating Indiana 27-17 in the first round. The Fighting Irish kicked off the new 12-team playoff format in style, hosting the very first home playoff game in a snowy South Bend. Now, they’re headed to a much more comfortable setting—at least weather-wise—as they travel to […]

Notre Dame football is recruiting as the team continues its journey in the College Football Playoff. The Fighting Irish won’t be looking for a quarterback in the transfer portal this cycle though, per On3. Notre Dame’s taken Riley Leonard and Sam Hartman in recent years. The Fighting Irish have Leonard calling plays as the team […]

Notre Dame enters this matchup looking dominant after a huge win against Indiana in the first round of the College Football Playoffs. Georgia won the SEC Championship to get the first-round bye, but they lost Carson Beck due to injury. It is time to continue our college football odds series with a Notre Dame-Georgia prediction […]

Notre Dame’s debut in the twelve-team College Football Playoff went even better than expected, as the Fighting Irish dominated No. 8 Indiana. Now, in his third year in South Bend, head coach Marcus Freeman faces the ultimate litmus test: Georgia. This is the type of program former coach Brian Kelly used to struggle against in […]

On New Year’s Night, the Notre Dame football team will play in one of the biggest games in program history. The matchup? Against the SEC champion Georgia Bulldogs, the second ranked seed in this year’s College Football Playoff. As the Fighting Irish prepare for the matchup, head coach Marcus Freeman and his staff, most notably […]

Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman made a stunning statement about the transfer portal’s effect on his team. This year’s portal closes on December 28, which will come before the Fighting Irish face No. 2 Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. Notre Dame is riding high after a dominant home victory over the Indiana Hoosiers in […]

The first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff kicked off this past Friday night in South Bend, with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish facing in-state foe, the Indiana Hoosiers. Though it certainly wasn’t the biggest game in the storied history of the Notre Dame football program, it was the biggest game in the young coaching career of 38-year-old Irish […]

Notre Dame will have to face Georgia in the College Football Playoff Sugar Bowl shorthanded. The team confirmed on Monday that defensive tackle Rylie Mills will not play for the remainder of the season, per Pete Sampson of The Athletic. Mills is currently dealing with an unspecified knee injury. Head coach Marcus Freeman confirmed that […]

The Notre Dame football program has 11 national championships, but Marcus Freeman’s team made history with its 12th win of the year over Indiana in the first game of the College Football Playoff, the most in a single season in program history. Freeman spoke on the accomplishment, and he is appreciating it, despite the fact […]

In their third College Football Playoff appearance, Notre Dame topped Indiana 27-17 to claim the first win of the 12-team era. They move on to the Sugar Bowl and face No. 2-seeded Georgia on New Year’s Day 2025 in New Orleans. Georgia will undoubtedly be a stiffer test for the Fighting Irish, but the team, […]

It was an exciting Friday night for the Notre Dame football team as they beat the Indiana Hoosiers to advance in the College Football Playoff. Notre Dame football head coach Marcus Freeman spoke about the win but also wanted to harp on why the current team is unlike any others, especially one that has overcome […]

Notre Dame football is moving on to face Georgia in Round 2 of the College Football Playoff after a statement victory over Indiana. Head coach Marcus Freeman couldn’t hold back the excitement over the program. On a historic night where the Fighting Irish handily defeated the Hoosiers 27-17, there was nothing but wholesome energy emanating […]