Notre Dame protects home field in new postseason era with 1st playoff win, 27-17 over Indiana
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Notre Dame protects home field in new postseason era with 1st playoff win, 27-17 over Indiana

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— Marcus Freeman learned the hard lessons from all those big losses as well as the inexplicable ones. On Friday night, in the first game in college football’s new playoff era, the Notre Dame coach celebrated the most significant victory of his career — in Notre Dame Stadium with snowflakes flying and players singing the school’s alma mater. Jeremiyah Love tied the school record with a 98-yard touchdown run on the third play of the game, Riley Leonard accounted for two more scores and the Fighting Irish held high-scoring Indiana in check, giving seventh-seeded Notre Dame its first ever playoff victory, 27-17 over the Hoosiers. “We’re the first group to play and win a playoff game at Notre Dame Stadium, so that’s something we’ll share for the rest of our lives.” He and the Irish have a day or two to savor their 11th consecutive win to tie the school record for most wins in a season — their first in four playoff tries. Notre Dame: The Irish have relied on the running game and defense all season — and it was that combination that gave Notre Dame the first playoff win in school history.

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Hidalgo scores 33 as No. 3 Notre Dame defeats Loyola Maryland 97-54
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Hidalgo scores 33 as No. 3 Notre Dame defeats Loyola Maryland 97-54

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The AP Top 25 women’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! 3 Notre Dame beat Loyola Maryland 97-54 on Sunday. Takeaways Loyola Maryland: After a rough start getting outscored 26-9, the Greyhounds hit 7-of-14 shots and were only outscored by one point in the second quarter. Notre Dame: The Fighting Irish connected on 10-of-20 3-pointers against …

Jeremiyah Love overcomes injury and illness to propel Notre Dame into 1st Sugar Bowl since 2007
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Jeremiyah Love overcomes injury and illness to propel Notre Dame into 1st Sugar Bowl since 2007

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— Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love wasted no time sending a message to his teammates Friday night. So when Love ran through the Notre Dame Stadium tunnel for the first CFP game ever played on a college campus, he was nowhere near full strength against the nation’s top run defense. Notre Dame faces the Southeastern Conference champion Bulldogs — …

Notre Dame-Indiana playoff game a twist for those with dual loyalties in the Hoosier State
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Notre Dame-Indiana playoff game a twist for those with dual loyalties in the Hoosier State

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INDIANAPOLIS — Jim O’Donnell’s legacy will be felt inside Notre Dame Stadium on Friday night. To tell you the truth, he’d root for Notre Dame in a heartbeat,” said Carri O’Donnell, who read Blue and Gold Illustrated to her father-in-law two days before he died in September at age 89. “It’s funny when you look at the state of Indiana, …

Indiana at Notre Dame in CFP will be teams’ 1st meeting since ’91, winner gets Georgia in Sugar Bowl
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Indiana at Notre Dame in CFP will be teams’ 1st meeting since ’91, winner gets Georgia in Sugar Bowl

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The Indiana and Notre Dame campuses are separated by 200 miles in the Hoosier State, but their football teams haven’t met since 1991 and before that 1958. We’ve climbed that mountain.” The last time Notre Dame and Indiana played, Rick Mirer and Jerome Bettis led the …

USC looks to upset No. 5 Notre Dame, deny surging Irish a home game in CFP
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USC looks to upset No. 5 Notre Dame, deny surging Irish a home game in CFP

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Key matchup Notre Dame RB Jeremiyah Love vs. USC LB Easton Mascarenas-Arnold. Players to watch Notre Dame: QB Riley Leonard has settled in after a slow start, with 11 total touchdowns to one interception over the last four games. Facts & figures Notre Dame has held …

Leonard passes for 3 TDs and No. 8 Notre Dame forces 5 turnovers in a 35-14 win over Virginia
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Leonard passes for 3 TDs and No. 8 Notre Dame forces 5 turnovers in a 35-14 win over Virginia

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! — Riley Leonard passed for three touchdowns and Notre Dame’s defense forced five turnovers as the No. “Let’s give this program a chance to play in this stadium one more time.” Notre Dame capitalized on a Virginia miscue on the opening kickoff, setting up its first …

Riley Leonard runs for 2 TDs, throws a TD pass and No. 10 Notre Dame routs Florida State 52-3
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Riley Leonard runs for 2 TDs, throws a TD pass and No. 10 Notre Dame routs Florida State 52-3

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! 10 Notre Dame heaped more misery onto Florida State by overpowering the Seminoles 52-3 on Saturday night. On his first touchdown, the senior quarterback broke to the left side and sprinted 34 yards, diving into the end zone to cap Notre Dame’s first drive. Jadarian Price …

Notre Dame’s College Football Playoff rooting guide: Which games matter the most for Irish?
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Notre Dame’s College Football Playoff rooting guide: Which games matter the most for Irish?

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— You may not have heard of Rich Clark. GO DEEPER College Football Playoff 2024 projections: How Week 9 impacted the 12-team bracket As Notre Dame takes its second bye week, here’s a viewer’s guide to the games that matter most for the Irish to make the 12-team field and how high they might rise in those rankings. Please don’t …

How to fix five of college football history’s most controversial national champion debates
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How to fix five of college football history’s most controversial national champion debates

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No sport invites as much chaos and debate in crowning a champion as college football. Lansing State Journal columnist Bob Hoerner wrote, “The name of the game is win and although the Spartans didn’t quite make it against Notre Dame, they at least tried right up to the final bell. Per Big Ten rules, Michigan State was not allowed to …

No. 16 Notre Dame will lean on a stifling defense against high-scoring No. 15 Louisville
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No. 16 Notre Dame will lean on a stifling defense against high-scoring No. 15 Louisville

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Then Notre Dame’s stifling defense turned the game. Christian Gray broke up a pass that Junior Tuihalamaka intercepted at the Notre Dame 4, the Irish forced a turnover on downs on the next series and freshman Boubacar Traore closed out the first half with two sacks, …

No. 17 Notre Dame shakes off sluggish start in 28-3 win over Miami (Ohio)
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No. 17 Notre Dame shakes off sluggish start in 28-3 win over Miami (Ohio)

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Haunted by off-target passes and penalties, Notre Dame found itself trailing 3-0 early in the second quarter on a 26-yard field goal by Miami’s Dom Dzioban. “But if you let that affect the way you go out and execute the next play, then, man, you’re not …

No. 5 Notre Dame looking to maintain focus against Northern Illinois in home opener
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No. 5 Notre Dame looking to maintain focus against Northern Illinois in home opener

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! — Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman received a phone call from former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel two days after the No. “It was, ‘Hey, I just want to remind you that the greatest danger is the illusion all is well when indeed, all isn’t well,’” …

No. 19 Notre Dame looks to finish the regular season with a win at Stanford
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No. 19 Notre Dame looks to finish the regular season with a win at Stanford

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Notre Dame tries to avenge last home season’s loss to Stanford and regain the Legends Trophy. PLAYERS TO WATCH Notre Dame: QB Sam Hartman threw four TD passes last week to move into fourth place all-time among FBS quarterbacks with 132. FACTS & FIGURES Notre Dame …

Hartman throws 4 TDs to lead No. 20 Notre Dame to 45-7 win over his former team Wake Forest
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Hartman throws 4 TDs to lead No. 20 Notre Dame to 45-7 win over his former team Wake Forest

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Transferring from Wake Forest to Notre Dame for the 2023 season, Hartman leads all active FBS quarterbacks in career touchdowns and passing yardage. Shoot, it’s a credit to a lot of the guys on the other team what we just played, which is a weird thing …

No. 21 Notre Dame hopes to rebound from 2nd loss while renewing rivalry with No. 10 USC
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No. 21 Notre Dame hopes to rebound from 2nd loss while renewing rivalry with No. 10 USC

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “We expect it to be an electric atmosphere, a great environment and a great opportunity for this program to use the adversity we faced this past week and to use it as energy and motivation.” Saturday’s game closes out a stretch in which Notre Dame has …

No. 10 Notre Dame visits unbeaten No. 25 Louisville seeking 31st straight win over ACC opponent
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No. 10 Notre Dame visits unbeaten No. 25 Louisville seeking 31st straight win over ACC opponent

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! KEY MATCHUP Louisville’s secondary has history with Notre Dame quarterback Sam Hartman, having faced him last season while at Wake Forest. Louisville ranks in the middle of several ACC pass defense categories but held N.C. State to just 112 yards through the air with two sacks …

No. 10 Notre Dame visits No. 25 Louisville in ranked matchup. Irish seek 31st straight win over ACC
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No. 10 Notre Dame visits No. 25 Louisville in ranked matchup. Irish seek 31st straight win over ACC

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Louisville has its best start in 10 years and first AP Top 25 ranking since early last season but faces its biggest test under first-year coach Jeff Brohm. Said Cardinals defensive end Stephen Herron, “He’s a veteran quarterback who’s going to make plays, and we’re going …

No. 6 Ohio State plunges for touchdown with 1 second left to beat No. 9 Notre Dame 17-14
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No. 6 Ohio State plunges for touchdown with 1 second left to beat No. 9 Notre Dame 17-14

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! What McCord didn’t realize was that Notre Dame only had 10 players on the field for the final two plays from the Irish 1-yard line — an incompletion in the end zone to Marvin Harrison Jr. and Trayanum’s decisive run that sent Buckeyes players streaming onto …

No. 6 Ohio State looks to beat No. 9 Notre Dame for 6th time in a row. Last Irish win was in 1936
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No. 6 Ohio State looks to beat No. 9 Notre Dame for 6th time in a row. Last Irish win was in 1936

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The game is a resume-builder for the winner in the race for the College Football Playoff, though a loss wouldn’t necessarily eliminate either Ohio State or Notre Dame. KEY MATCHUP Ohio State QB Kyle McCord vs. the Notre Dame defense. Notre Dame: RB Audric Estimé’s 130.3 …

No. 10 Notre Dame beats NC State 45-24 for 29th straight regular-season win against ACC teams
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No. 10 Notre Dame beats NC State 45-24 for 29th straight regular-season win against ACC teams

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Audric Estime ran for an 80-yard touchdown on the first play after an extended weather delay and Sam Hartman three of his four scores after halftime to help Notre Dame beat North Carolina State 45-24 on Saturday, earning yet another win against an Atlantic Coast Conference …

No. 5 Notre Dame women beat Boston College 85-48
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No. 5 Notre Dame women beat Boston College 85-48

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! 5 Notre Dame dominated Atlantic Coast Conference foe Boston College 85-48 on Sunday. “A young team kind of let the pageantry of a Notre Dame maybe getting them playing a little faster less disciplined than we wanted in the first half.” FAST START The biggest first-half …

Buchner accounts for 5 TDs, Notre Dame wins Gator Bowl 45-38
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Buchner accounts for 5 TDs, Notre Dame wins Gator Bowl 45-38

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Notre Dame’s Tyler Buchner accounted for seven of the 11 touchdowns in the highest-scoring Gator Bowl in history. South Carolina was missing a number of key starters, including running back MarShawn Lloyd, versatile tight end Jaheim Bell, tight end Austin Stogner, defensive lineman …

No. 14 Miami wins 9th straight, topping Notre Dame 76-65
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No. 14 Miami wins 9th straight, topping Notre Dame 76-65

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— Nigel Pack scored 21 points and grabbed four steals in his home state to lead No. “Nigel was really terrific all game long,” Canes coach Jim Larrañaga said of Pack’s first collegiate appearance in Indiana. “We’re struggling confidence-wise, no question about it,” Notre Dame coach Mike Brey said. “We played better defense, we rebounded better, we attacked the basket …

Bounce back teams South Carolina, Notre Dame to Gator Bowl
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Bounce back teams South Carolina, Notre Dame to Gator Bowl

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! ET LOCATION: TIAA Bank Field, Jacksonville, Fla. TOP PLAYERS South Carolina: WR Antwane “Juice” Wells Jr., 63 catches, 898 yards, six touchdowns. NOTABLE South Carolina: The Gamecocks could be the hottest team heading into the bowl season after knocking Tennessee and Clemson out of College Football …

No. 18 Irish look to continue ACC dominance against Eagles
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No. 18 Irish look to continue ACC dominance against Eagles

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “We haven’t won since 2008,” Boston College coach Jeff Hafley said, referring to an eight-game losing streak in the series. “I don’t think defensively you’ll change depending on who’s going to be at quarterback, but Moorhead does a really good job of extending plays with his …

No. 18 Irish chase 5th straight win as Boston College visits
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No. 18 Irish chase 5th straight win as Boston College visits

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Boston College at Notre Dame, 2:30 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK COLLEGE LINE: Notre Dame by 18 1/2. PLAYERS TO WATCH Boston College: WR Zay Flowers leads the Eagles with 921 yards receiving and 10 TD catches, both put him in the top 15 of the FBS. …

Notre Dame beats No. 5 Clemson 35-14 with punt block for TD
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Notre Dame beats No. 5 Clemson 35-14 with punt block for TD

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “That was a way more drastic field rush than the last one.” Two years ago, only 11,071 fans, mostly students and university employees, were on hand when Notre Dame upset top-ranked Clemson 47-40 in double overtime because of COVID-19 restrictions. “It’s special” Notre Dame coach Marcus …

Stanford beats Notre Dame 16-14 for first FBS win in year
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Stanford beats Notre Dame 16-14 for first FBS win in year

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! — Tanner McKee passed for 288 yards, Casey Filkins scored a touchdown and Joshua Karty kicked three field goals as Stanford ended an 11-game losing streak against FBS opponents, beating Notre Dame 16-14 on Saturday night. “You can’t take a sack in a two-minute operation.” NUMBERS …

No. 5 Notre Dame to face No. 9 Oklahoma State in Fiesta Bowl
3 years ago

No. 5 Notre Dame to face No. 9 Oklahoma State in Fiesta Bowl

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! And I’m excited about Oklahoma State, the way people recognize us coast to coast.” The Irish shook off an Oct. 2 loss to Cincinnati to win their final seven games, putting themselves in position to earn a CFP playoff spot despite coach Brian Kelly’s decision to …

The Latest: Notre Dame, Oklahoma St to clash in Fiesta Bowl
3 years ago

The Latest: Notre Dame, Oklahoma St to clash in Fiesta Bowl

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! ___ 2:35 p.m. Pittsburgh’s reward for its first ACC championship is a date with Michigan State in the Peach Bowl. 3 Georgia will meet in a College Football Playoff semifinal on New Year’s Eve at the Orange Bowl in Miami Gardens, Florida. Its only loss over …

No. 5 Notre Dame beats Stanford 45-14, awaits playoff fate
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No. 5 Notre Dame beats Stanford 45-14, awaits playoff fate

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! We’re ready to prove it.” The Irish won their final seven games following a home loss to Cincinnati but will likely need some help next week to get into the College Football Playoff for the third time in the past four seasons. I really believe that …

Roll Tide! No. 1 Alabama beats Notre Dame 31-14 in Rose Bowl
3 years, 11 months ago

Roll Tide! No. 1 Alabama beats Notre Dame 31-14 in Rose Bowl

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ARLINGTON, Texas — A truly untraditional Rose Bowl setting, a very common result for Alabama in the College Football Playoff. Notre Dame, in football’s final four for only the second time, has lost seven consecutive New Year’s Six games since 2000. I thought we did some of the things that we wanted to today but we simply didn’t make enough …

CFP: Alabama-Notre Dame, Clemson-Ohio St as Aggies left out
4 years ago

CFP: Alabama-Notre Dame, Clemson-Ohio St as Aggies left out

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A season filled with uncertainty brought on by the pandemic will end with a perfectly predictable College Football Playoff. Selection committee chairman Gary Barta, the Iowa athletic director, said Notre Dame’s extra victory against a ranked opponent helped give the Irish an edge over Texas A&M. Notre Dame’s reward will be a matchup with Alabama, the Southeastern Conference champion that …

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