Notre Dame Battles Alabama For BCS Football Glory

NPR

Notre Dame Magazine has something to say about the state of the world. We offer good reading, literate conversations in print and online about what makes you think, what makes you feel, what touches your soul. But what I've tried hard to do is let our kids go play the game and let their actions [...]

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Notre Dame Football: Where 2012 Team Ranks All Time Among Top Irish Teams

Bleacher Rep

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The postgame roars from Notre Dame's locker room echoed right through the Coliseum's thick cement walls and metal beams Saturday night, moving around the 89-year-old arena like a long-absent LOS ANGELES — All along, Jack Swarbrick thought it would be next year. Notre Dame's athletic director inspected the progress under Brian [...]

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Notre Dame Football: Where 2012 Team Ranks All Time Among Top Irish Teams

Bleacher Rep

I'm sure you have all heard by now that Notre Dame will appear in the BCS National Championship this season. The 2012 team was able to overcome all of the odds, found ways to win every game on the schedule and really shut the naysayers up that At 12-0, Brian Kelly's team has weathered a [...]

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Notre Dame Football: Fighting Irish Shouldn't Be Underdog vs. SEC Champion

Bleacher Rep

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The postgame roars from Notre Dame's locker room echoed right through the Coliseum's thick cement walls and metal beams Saturday night, moving around the 89-year-old arena like a long-absent force of nature. After decades away I don't know that there is a football fan in America that has neutral feelings toward [...]

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Notre Dame Football: Fighting Irish Shouldn't Be Underdog vs. SEC Champion

Bleacher Rep

It was a simple statement of celebration after a simple statement worth celebrating: Notre Dame was in the national title game, and this splendid night was all he came back for and more. Te'o left the field in buoyant, giant gallops, at a loss for any Notre Dame will meet the SEC Champion in the [...]

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Notre Dame football awaits BCS title game opponent

Boston.com

Notre Dame is going to be a big underdog in the National Championship, but if the Irish play sound football and focus on the following keys, they can shock the nation and wind up as the kings of this college football season. The Irish all but LOS ANGELES (AP) — The postgame roars from Notre [...]

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What we learned about Notre Dame at USC

ESPN (blog)

A look at the AP poll after the second-to-last week of the college football season. Nope, nothing makes sense yet. I don't know that there is a football fan in America that has neutral feelings toward Notre Dame. It seems that either the Fighting Irish are loved or despised. There is no middle ground when [...]

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Notre Dame QB Golson close to avoiding hook pattern

Chicago Trib

Hi-res-153644860_crop_exact. Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images. Despite coming back from a 14-point deficit in the fourth quarter of their 29-26 three overtime victory against the Pittsburgh Panthers Saturday, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish looked vulnerable. Twenty-two of Notre Dame's verbal commitments have games slated this weekend for their respective teams. Find out below who each recruit is [...]

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Notre Dame falls to 4th in BCS standings

Chicago Trib

SOUTH BEND — All the historical footnotes, all the invincibility, all of what's gone into Notre Dame's identity as a national title contender seemed to drain out of Notre Dame Stadium Saturday on Pitt's very first offensive play of the game. Pitt The package is called "Desperado," and desperate times call for "Desperado" measures. And [...]

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Notre Dame falls to 4th in BCS standings

Chicago Trib

One of the best opening matchups on Friday in the Pac-5 Division is Oaks Christian playing at Sherman Oaks Notre Dame. The Marmonte League was rated ahead of the Serra League and this will be a chance to see whether that was a good reading on In its bid to remain undefeated and in the [...]

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