Notre Dame Football
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Corey Holmes: Notre Dame Football Now or Never ’16
UHND’s annual “Now or Never” series began by forecasting Malik Zaire to finish second in Notre Dame’s quarterback race and predicted a breakout season for Torii Hunter. This week UHND…
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2016 Notre Dame Schedule Preview: Stanford
The third and currently final scheduled night game on the Notre Dame football schedule for 2016 will have the Irish hosting long-time rival the Stanford Cardinal on October 15. While…
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Notre Dame Wild Cards The Difference Between Good And Great
Going into 2016, if every player makes the contribution that is expected of them, it would be fair to say that Notre Dame is anywhere from an eight win team…
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2016 Notre Dame Football Schedule Preview: NC State Wolfpack
The sixth week of the 2016 Notre Dame football schedule has the Irish traveling to Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh to face the North Carolina State Wolfpack. Led by fourth-year coach…
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2016 Notre Dame Schedule Preview: Syracuse
Dino Baberse is inheriting a team that has a combined 7-17 record over the last two years as he enters his first season as the head coach of Syracus. That…
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2016 Notre Dame Schedule Preview: Duke Blue Devils
Week four of the 2016 Notre Dame football schedule brings another former Notre Dame assistant coach to town. David Cutcliffe, Charlie Weis’s original quarterback coach in 2005, leads the Duke…
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2016 Notre Dame Schedule Preview: Michigan State
Michigan State is back on the Notre Dame schedule in 2016 for the first time since 2013. The brief hiatus in the series after meeting 17 consecutive seasons from 1997-2013.…
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2016 Notre Dame Schedule Preview: Nevada Wolfpack
The Nevada Wolfpack doesn’t play Notre Dame very often. Their last meeting was in 2009 when the Irish steamrolled the Pack 35-0. But Nevada is an unknown quantity this year.…
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Torii Hunter Jr: Notre Dame Football Now or Never ’16
After exploring the murky future of quarterback Malik Zaire, UHND continues its annual “Now or Never” series with Torii Hunter Jr., a wide receiver Notre Dame is hopeful will become…
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2016 Notre Dame Schedule Preview: Texas Longhorns
Today we kick-off our breakdown of Notre Dame’s 2016 football schedule. Once again the Irish face a daunting slate of games that, will prove challenging to navigate unblemished. Will this…
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Corey Robinson The Player Too Often Overlooked
Last week, Corey Robinson announced his decision to retire from football due to an accumulation of concussions and will take up a student assistant role within the football program. Generally…
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Malik Zaire: Notre Dame Football Now or Never ’16
Notre Dame’s freshmen have reported to campus and moved into their dorms, and the 4th of July is within sight. For football fanatics, these developments can only mean one thing:…
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Notre Dame Equipped to Replace Corey Robinson
Despite a lack of experience throughout the WR depth chart, the Notre Dame offense is well equipped to replace Corey Robinson in the lineup.
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Corey Robinson Made Wise Decision to Retire
Corey Robinson’s brief but promising career on the football field came to a premature end on Wednesday when the senior to be hung up his cleats after battling through multiple…
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2016 Notre Dame Football Number Changes
Blue & Gold’s Lou Somogyi reported on some Notre Dame football jersey number changes for 2016 earlier on Tuesday with Notre Dame’s senior quarterback, Malik Zaire, highlighting the number changes. While…
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Five Reasons To Be Optimistic About The Notre Dame Defense
Following my latest installment, which ranked the top 11 players on the Notre Dame defense, the response was near unanimous: the defense is in big trouble. Writing it, I hadn’t…
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6 Notre Dame Redshirts to Watch in ’16
With freshmen reporting to campus and Notre Dame posting videos of its off-season training already, it’s easy to get excited about what instant impact freshmen might be roaming the Gug…
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2016 Notre Dame Football Position Preseason Grades
A lot of people including myself are underestimating how good Notre Dame could be this season. I think it’s because of the way the season ended with a heart-breaking last-second…
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Is Notre Dame moving to a 4-2-5 defense?
COLLEGE FOOTBALL’S BRUTAL ORIGINS When Rutgers “lit up” Princeton 6-4 in 1869 in the first football game ever played, the game’s early defensive DNA was established. It was brutality at…
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Notre Dame Football’s Best 11: Defense
First we looked at the offense, now a look at the best 11 players on the defensive side of the ball for the 2016 Fighting Irish. As with the offense,…
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Breaking Down Notre Dame’s 2016 Football Schedule
Duranko is back with a breakdown of Notre Dame's 2016 football schedule. Here is a full ranking, in reverse order of difficulty, of Notre Dame's 12 opponents standing between it…
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Mike Sanford Continues Meteoric Rise
Notre Dame’s recruiting received a significant boost recently when 2018 quarterback prospect Phil Jurkovec offered his commitment after an unofficial visit to campus. Although still early in the process for…
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How Notre Dame Fits into the Satellite Camp Debate
The offseason for college football is usually spent covering inconsequential items like what jersey numbers incoming freshmen will receive or, if it’s really a slow news day, what current NCAA…
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Notre Dame Football’s 11 Best: Offense
The idea of playing the best 11 guys you have on either side of the ball would seem to be conventional and a matter of common sense. Of course every…
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Looking Ahead to Notre Dame’s 2017 NFL Draft Prospects
When it comes to the NFL Draft, Notre Dame football has been on a hot streak. Two years ago head coach Brian Kelly had eight player players drafted, good enough…
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