Explosive rush rate and missed tackles forced per attempt among RBs taken in first two rounds since 2017 + what I believe are the top 3 RBs in this class (Love, Price, Coleman). Jeremiyah Love and Jonah Coleman in good company next to Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker

Sources: Notre Dame is hiring Illinois defensive coordinator Aaron Henry to become its new defensive backs coach and co-DC. Henry was a two-time All-Big Ten safety at Wisconsin under current ND DC Chris Ash, and worked with Ash at Rutgers.

Notre Dame has five 5-star players in the Rivals 2026 recruiting class rankings. The ACC and the Big 12 combine for three.

Clark Lea tied for the lowest ranking of Notre Dame in the final Coaches Poll

BREAKING: NCAA ruling gives DT Jason Onye a sixth season and #NotreDame’s roster a needed boost www.on3.com/teams/notre-...

regardless of the result tonight, I have my narratives in order

How Ohio State transfers Mylan Graham and Quincy Porter fit in the #NotreDame WR room "Graham and Porter are the kind of wide receivers you win national championships with, when you have a quarterback to go with them like CJ Carr." — Tom Lemming www.on3.com/teams/notre-...

Yeah, collecting Ohio State transfer WRs seems like a good strategy.

In honor of halftime of the Sugar Bowl, let us remember www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ23...

All-timne playoff wins by conference SEC - 20-11 B1G - 13-11 ACC - 8-8 Indep - 3-2 Pac-12 - 2-3 B12 - 1-8 G5 - 0-4

Maybe Joey McGuire should have focused more on offensive game planning than speaking on Notre Dame

Me when Michigan and Southern Cal both lose

The coach taking USC to Alamo Bowls and Las Vegas Bowls, with a Cotton Bowl loss to Tulane mixed in, wanted out of the Notre Dame series for playoff purposes.

Clay Helton in his first four full seasons at USC: 34-18 Lincoln Riley in his first four: 35-18 Technically progress!

You just hate to see that for Southern Cal & Lincoln Riley.

Another one of **Alabama's Really Good Wins loses**

NEWS: Marcus Freeman has informed NFL franchises that he's staying at Notre Dame. Freeman and ND have agreed to a restructured contract that puts him in the "top tier" in compensation among college coaches. Story: bit.ly/3MYs2Nw

Notre Dame RB Jeremiyah Love and CB Leonard Moore are unanimous All-Americans, the 38th and 39th ND players to earn the honor. This is the 2nd time in 3 seasons ND's had multiple unanimous AAs. (Joe Alt and Xavier Watts in 2023.) Before then, it had not happened since 1990, per the school.

Notre Dame RB Jadarian Price says on Instagram that he's declaring for the NFL Draft. It'll be fascinating to watch his pro career unfold. Hard to imagine a more decorated back with less wear and tear on his body than Price has.

It's just a cheeseburger bro www.espn.com/college-foot...

Sherrone Moore has been charged with third-degree felony home invasion, misdemeanor stalking (domestic relationship) and misdemeanor breaking & entering. Arraignment is at 1pm ET.

Kalen DeBoer would be the obvious top name for Michigan.

BREAKING Michigan coach Sherrone Moore has been fired for cause. The school announces that “credible evidence was found that Coach Moore engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a staff member.”

One Tide-ing Moment

Release the ACC Files

Notre Dame AD Pete Bevacqua calls Marcus Freeman's contract "a living, breathing document" that will be revised every year to make sure he is where he needs to be.

New Audible: Pete Sampson joins us to talk about all the Notre Dame drama of what’s been a wild past 48 hours. Was ND right to skip the Pop Tarts Bowl, and/or could it undermine the whole Bowl system? Why the CFP needs to dump that dopey Tuesday show: m.youtube.com/watch?v=qG2B...

uhhh is Denbrock about to go sicko next year

I get no one being in ND's corner for anything but the amount of them that expect ND to eat shit with the joke of a seeding process/active sabotage from a conference partner, and then show up for a 2nd helping at the breakfast pastry game is astounding.

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I'm muting, I'm blocking, I'm unfollowing, I'm auto deleting podcast eps as soon as they pop up. Stay sharp and nimble out there, folks.

FEI Game Ratings (opponent-adjusted single-game possession efficiency) comparison of the Last Four In and First Four Out of the 2025 CFP at-large field bcftoys.com/2025-gr

“All of Notre Dame’s underclassmen and backups would’ve had a chance to play in the bowl game” They all played in the 70-7 Syracuse game 3 weeks ago lmao

Friendly reminder: Alabama has less FBS wins than Notre Dame.

Here's an updated version of the game ratings chart with all 12 CFP participants

Good, part of fucking around is the inevitable finding out, tell em to choke

I don't think it's great for faith in the sport's governance that two teams in the 12-year history of the Playoff have made the field when they really shouldn't have, and both of those teams were Alabama

I keep coming back to this: Notre Dame's two losses were by a combined four points. Their most recent loss was on September 14th. Alabama lost by 21 yesterday.

Notable: The only difference between the CFP committee and the BCS formula simulation is that the old BCS would've had Notre Dame ahead of Alabama and Miami. The rest of the CFP field would've been the exact same. Per BCSKnowHow

Here’s where every FBS team lands when you compare Team Talent Composite to current Elo ratings. CFP qualifiers are circled. ND sits way up in elite territory with the top Elo rating… but no playoff spot. Pretty tough spot for them. Do you think the committee got it right?

Alabama beat 5-7 Auburn by one score and lost by 21 the next week and moved up a spot

Alabama should have dropped one more game and they could've hosted

So, BYU was penalized for getting blown out in its conference championship game (dropped one spot). Which allowed Miami to move up and get compared directly to Notre Dame. But Alabama was not penalized for getting blown out in its conference championship game.

And they're sending Alabama to Norman so they can beat that pathetic luckbox team to try to make it look like they were justified. That is so fucking adorable.

Notre Dame out-rushed Alabama today

ESPN owns the College Football Playoff ESPN owns the ACCN ESPN employees openly advocating for ACC team over non-ACC team to be in the College Football Playoff

Game ratings (opponent-adjusted single game possession efficiency) are designed to measure good-to-bad performances relative to good-to-bad competition. They are effectively the "guts" of the FEI ratings system: bcftoys.com/2025-gr

Alabama jumping Notre Dame makes no sense given Saturday's results. It only helps protect Alabama if it loses the SEC championship game. Notre Dame fans, you think I hate your team. I'm on your side on this one!