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.
Football is man against man, mano a mano, so when one team beats another we believe that settles it. To the victor goes the spoils and that’s that.
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.
Longhorn and Irish fans, lend me your ears! For I come not to increase your anxiety, but to relieve it. However, if you’re an Alabama fan, you should be genuinely concerned.
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.
This year’s national championship game features the two most outwardly faithful teams in college football, and, according to Notre Dame’s QB Riley Leonard, that’s just how God planned it.
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.
In a move that may prove unwise, Penn State head coach James Franklin took a shot at Notre Dame by calling for “consistency” in college football and stressing that “everyone should be in a conference.”
Georgia was looking for under-the-radar players to step up and impact the game in Thursday night’s Sugar Bowl game against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, but it’s safe to say this is not what UGA head coach Kirby Smart had in mind.
Tom Wilson, the chairman and chief executive officer of Allstate – sponsor of the Sugar Bowl – sparked severe backlash on social media Thursday afternoon after his statement following the New Year’s Day terror attacks in New Orleans.
The Allstate Sugar Bowl in New Orleans held a moment of silence to honor those killed or injured in Wednesday’s terror attack on Bourbon Street.
The University of Notre Dame is inviting fans who are in New Orleans to attend the Sugar Bowl to join together in prayer for the victims.
The Caesar’s Superdome in New Orleans, the site of Wednesday night’s Sugar Bowl clash between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Georgia Bulldogs, is on lockdown as security teams sweep the facility for explosives and other threats following Wednesday morning’s deadly truck attack on Bourbon Street.
A report from WDSU in New Orleans says that Wednesday night’s scheduled Sugar Bowl matchup between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Georgia Bulldogs, has been postponed until Thursday following a deadly terror attack that killed and wounded dozens on Bourbon Street Wednesday morning.
New Orleans police have indicated that Wednesday night’s Sugar Bowl matchup between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Georgia Bulldogs will go on as scheduled after a deadly attack in which a driver drove a truck into a Bourbon Street crowd, killing and wounding dozens.
Notre Dame’s “Fighting Irish” hockey team is headed to Belfast, Ireland, to participate in the annual Friendship Four hockey event. Still, the school felt the need to warn students what not to wear when visiting the Emerald Isles. Essentially telling
Lou Holtz responded to the presence of a transgender volleyball player on the San Jose State University (SJSU) women’s team.
Lou Holtz, the legendary college football coach from the likes of Notre Dame and South Carolina, denounced men in women’s sports.
