The haze of losses to Marshall and Stanford at home have loomed over Notre Dame’s 2022 season, but this past Saturday night, in front of a sold-out primetime Notre Dame Stadium crowd, the Fighting Irish played their best game of … Continue reading Marcus Freeman Finally Has His Notre Dame Moment
Week 2 of college football was nuts. It took me back to 2007 when all hell broke loss, starting with then-FCS Appalachian State handing No. 5 Michigan one of the worst losses in its history, getting paid to block a … Continue reading The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Holy Cross and Sun Belt Edition!
As alliances are broken and more prominent programs are moving to new conferences within the next two to three years, ultimately setting the stage for super conferences to emerge in college football, the outlier that you either love or hate … Continue reading Money Will Prolong or End Notre Dame’s Football Independence
You can’t blame Cincinnati Bearcat fans for being angry after the College Football Playoff Committee ranked them No. 6 in the first poll released this past Tuesday. The “College Gameday” signs on campus Saturday said it all. But ever since … Continue reading Fans Have Grievances, But Cincinnati Isn’t Meeting Playoff Expectations
The 2021 college football season may have some notes of 2007, but it is not there yet. We are in season eight of the College Football Playoff format, and a Group of 5 team is not just on the outside … Continue reading Now No. 2, Cincinnati a True Playoff Contender, with No Room For Error
Notre Dame football has been in a partnership with NBC for 30 years. In that time, Irish fans have been able to watch home games on their local NBC station, over-the-air and free, even as the digital age began in … Continue reading Notre Dame’s “Peacock Exclusive” Game Won’t Be a One-Time Gimmick
With college athletes now allowed to make money off their name, image and likeness (N.I.L.), more money is flowing in. For college football, money matters more than anything. Oh, wait. You thought I was going to say tradition? You’re adorable! … Continue reading Mix & Match Monday: If Amateurism is Dead, Might as Well Put Tradition Out of Its Misery
If you have ever taken a walk around Notre Dame Stadium, there are statues of Notre Dame coaches Knute Rockne, Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, Dan Devine and Lou Holtz. What do these men have in common? Simple, they all won … Continue reading For Brian Kelly, His Success at Notre Dame is Graded on Championships
For those of you new to any blog I’ve had, this is a series that started on my other blog “Gallagher’s Word“. Week 1 of the college football season doesn’t have a lot of great matchups. Some Power 5 schools … Continue reading The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of FBS-FCS Week 1 Matchups
SEAN GALLAGHER HAS THOUGHTS 