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(repost from late 2020) Notre Dame Head Coach Brian Kelly is just now three wins behind Knute Rockne for the most all time by a Fighting Irish mentor. So an ACC title game win tomorrow (game preview at this link), plus two College Football Playoff victories and he would end the 2020 season knotted up with the patriarch of ND Football. In a case of very strange … [Read more...] about Brian Kelly Leaves Notre Dame: Biggest Wins and Losses Part 3

(repost from late 2020) For #2 Notre Dame the ACC Title Game, against #4 Clemson kicks off Saturday night in Charlotte. The 10-0 (9-0 in ACC play) Fighting Irish handed the Tigers (9-1, 8-1) their only loss of the season back on Nov. 7. Yet the Irish are underdogs here again, almost as substantially an underdog as they were last month when the two teams clashed in South … [Read more...] about Brian Kelly Leaves Notre Dame: Biggest Wins and Losses Part 2

(Repost from late 2020) Yesterday, in a blowout of Syracuse on Senior Day, Ian Book become the all-time winningest quarterback in Notre Dame history. He led the Fighting Irish to victory number 30, by the score of 45-21 over the Orange, and now the ACC Title Game against Clemson awaits a week from Saturday. As one ND victory record falls, another one approaches. Head … [Read more...] about Brian Kelly Leaves Notre Dame: Biggest Wins and Losses Part 1

(Update: Six leading coaching candidates for Notre Dame) On this Monday night, football is on the minds of the Notre Dame faithful, and not the somewhat relevant game their basketball team is about to commence. Brian Kelly, the winningest coach in the entire storied history of the biggest brand name college football program of all, is leaving for LSU. Kelly, who passed up … [Read more...] about Brian Kelly Leaving Notre Dame for LSU: Rapid Reaction

The College Football Playoff is fun to bet on, and this year's event should be even more exciting and interesting to wager on, as 2021 sees a very wide open field. There are plenty of sites to place a bet on the CFP, where you'll find Notre Dame typically priced about +8000 to qualify. That gets them a top ten placement in the shortest odds for the playoff list, which sounds … [Read more...] about Notre Dame Playoff Odds Not as Long as You Might Think

#9 Notre Dame (4-0) versus #7 Cincinnati (3-0, 0-0 AAC) is a pretty interesting game for several reasons that go beyond the simple fact that it's a match-up of two top ten teams. On Saturday, in South Bend, we'll see Brian Kelly take on the program he led just before he took the ND job. The Fighting Irish's Defensive Coordinator, Marcus Freeman, held the same position at … [Read more...] about #9 Notre Dame vs #7 Cincinnati Game Preview, Prediction