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Officials say that Notre Dame football head coach Marcus Freeman will not be charged in the case of the alleged assault in Indiana.

Irish eyes haven’t had much cause for smiling over the last few weeks, but they got some on Monday morning.

The abrupt termination or, at least, pause, in the longstanding rivalry between Notre Dame and USC has not gone over well with fans, and it’s not going over well with former Trojan players either.

For only the second time in nearly 100 years, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and USC Trojans will not play next year, according to Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger.

Much of the discussion about potential changes to the College Football Playoff (CFP) format centers on expansion. After all, who wants to see teams like Notre Dame, Texas, and Vanderbilt get excluded to make room for two Group of Five qualifiers who will end up being three-touchdown underdogs in their first and only round games?

Fox Sports analyst Brady Quinn sees a controlling mechanism behind the chaos and confusion sown by the College Football Playoff (CFP) Committee: ESPN.

ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips seems to be determined to repair his conference’s fractured relationship with Notre Dame.

Any sense that Notre Dame was ready to let bygones be bygones, in their tense relationship with the ACC after the conference’s campaign to promote Miami over Notre Dame and the College Football Playoff (CFP Committee’s snub of the Irish, went up in smoke on Monday.

Notre Dame Athletic Director Pete Bevacqua says his program was “mystified” by the pro-Miami hype campaign conducted by the ACC and its “attack” on his program, as it mounted a television and social media campaign aimed at promoting Miami over Notre Dame for the College Football Playoff (CFP).

Notre Dame was snubbed by the College Football Playoff (CFP) Committee this year. Hey, it happens to everyone. But it won’t happen to Notre Dame again.

Notre Dame is an independent team in football. Yet, the Irish have a partial relationship with the ACC. A relationship that Notre Dame Athletic Director Pete Bevacqua says has been “permanently damaged” after the ACC openly campaigned against the Irish in the run-up to the final College Football Playoff (CFP) rankings on Sunday.

Amid a torrent of insanity and head-scratching decisions that emerged from the College Football Playoff (CFP) rankings that were released this weekend, an actual good idea managed to find its way out.

The number of people upset about the College Football Playoff (CFP) Committee’s final rankings is innumerable. The number of people with solutions to the problem is smaller.

On Sunday, the College Football Playoff (CFP) Committee told Notre Dame that its presence in this year’s playoff was not needed. A couple of hours later, Notre Dame informed college football that if they weren’t competing for a national championship, they weren’t interested in playing at all.

In a move that shocked fans and media nationwide, the College Football Playoff (CFP) Committee left the Notre Dame Fighting Irish out of the 12-team playoff on Sunday.

One of the constant refrains from the social media war between Notre Dame and Miami fans, has been that the game on the field matters. If that were true, what happened to BYU and Alabama on Saturday should have clarified where everyone stands, but it likely won’t.

For the first four editions of the College Football Playoff (CFP) committee’s weekly rankings, the genuine anger and resentment centered around Notre Dame’s ranking ahead of Miami. And that’s still there, don’t get me wrong, because Notre Dame is still ranked ahead of the Hurricanes after the committee’s Week 5 installment of its Top 25.

College football is just as much politics as it is football, this time of year. So, naturally, some politicians are letting their opinions be known.

Now that the regular season is over, it’s time for the politicking season to begin in college football, and Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian is off to a strong start.

Notre Dame and Texas Tech are two of several teams fighting for playoff positioning in the upcoming College Football Playoff, and that fight just got a lot more personal. Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire used his post-game press conference

Famed Notre Dame coach and former ESPN analyst Lou Holtz has posted a video blasting Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown.

Larry Williams, a former NFL player and athletic director at the University of South Florida (USF), died Thursday while working out at a gym on the USF campus, the university reported.

It’s a name, image, and likeness (NIL) world and transfer portal world, and we’re just living in it. But that doesn’t mean you have to like it, and Northern Illinois University (NIU) head football coach Thomas Hammock doesn’t.

Legendary Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz is urging Catholics to give Pope Leo XIV a chance and offer him their support.

The ratings are in from the CFP national championship game in the first year of the expanded playoff, and they show a 12 percent decline from last year.

Several members of the victorious Ohio State Buckeyes openly praised God after winning college football’s national title on Sunday.

The Ohio State post-game victory party literally took a very unexpected and nearly disastrous turn Monday night after winning the national championship.

Fans of the Ohio State Buckeyes went on a destructive rampage in Columbus Monday after their team won the college football national title.

President Trump made a surprise appearance during the national championship game between Notre Dame and Ohio State Monday night. In a rousing halftime video message, he told viewers, “We’re going to make America great again.”

ESPN took much heat for not airing the national anthem before the Sugar Bowl game between Notre Dame and Georgia following the New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans.
Regarding Monday night’s national championship game between Notre Dame and Ohio State, viewers will get the national anthem and much more.

It’s commonly understood that following moments of great national tragedy or crisis, that patriotic anthems and symbols will be given primacy during sports broadcasts.

Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman delivered the perfect response to a race-baiting question from ESPN’s Molly McGrath.

Angry Notre Dame fans threw bottles on the field in retaliation for what they perceived as a bad pass interference call that robbed the Irish of an interception late in their Orange Bowl game against Penn State.