Duranko’s Digest
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did we See in Palo Alto?
A late Stanford rally, initiated with 30 seconds to go, was capped off by Conrad Ukropina’s 45 yard field goal, earning Stanford a 38-36 win over the crestfallen Irish, seeing…
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See in Fenway?
Notre Dame’s beat Boston College 19-16 to move to 10-1, before heading to Palo Alto for the titanic season finale against Stanford. The green-clad Irish offense punched holes in the…
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against Wake Forest?
A somnambulant, diffident Notre Dame team did just enough to beat young, eager Wake Forest 28-7, to move to 9-1. The win completed the second unbeaten home slate under Kelly,…
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against Pitt?
Notre Dame, with the usual and perplexing ebbs and flows, moved to 8-1 with a 42-30 win over the Pitt Panthers. The Irish start was as easy as 1-2-3. Prosise…
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against Temple?
Notre Dame fashioned another thrilling fourth quarter rally to defeat pesky, resilient, tenacious Temple 24-20. Temple played up to Notre Dame’s level rather than Notre Dame playing down to Temple’s.…
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against USC?
Somewhere, Rock and Howard Jones smiled. This is what an epic, rivalry game look like. Legacy fulfilled. Offense, Defense, Special Teams, thrills, agony, expected stars and surprise heroes. Football games…
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against Navy?
After the second consecutive slow start, Notre Dame exercised functional control over Navy and completed discharge of its moral imperative, defeating Navy 41-24. The win over Notre Dame’s longest continuous…
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See vs. Clemson
For Clemson it was a Perfect Storm. It had been 38 years since a Notre Dame football team last visited Clemson, 17 days since the Tigers took the field against…
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against UMass?
Leveraging a dominating offensive line with a bewildering array of skilled players Notre Dame disposed of a pesky band of Minutemen, 62-27. Notre Dame moved to 4-0 with a 5…
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Duranko’s Digest: What did we see against Georgia Tech?
Deshone Kizer was big enough for the moment.
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against Virginia?
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against Texas?
We saw ruthless, brutal physical domination. After establishing that, Brian Kelly’s 2015 Fighting Irish used a remarkable array of skilled players and a stunning performance by Malik Zaire to dehorn…
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Duranko’s Digest: Notre Dame Football’s Spring Forward
Spring practice is now concluded. What did we learn? Better than expected: Jerry Tillery at Defensive tackle. Tillery’s move from “left tackle of the future” to defensive tackle was an…
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against LSU?
Hard by the banks of the Cumberland River, and in easy walking distance of the cathedral of country music, the Ryman Aauditorium, the Fighting Irish defeated those long, thick, swift …
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against USC?
Ugliness, embarrassment, second disaster of the year. USC, resisting the temptation to run up the score, buried the Irish 49-14, sending the Irish to its first four game losing streak…
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against Louisville?
The Fighting Irish lost their third straight game as the Louisville Cardinals befouled Senior Day, 31-28. It is axiomatic to football’s unforgiving math that a team’s stronger units must compensate…
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Duranko’s Digest: Paul Hornung, Notre Dame’s 1956 Heisman Winner
With Louisville coming in on Saturday, the 22d, Louisvillians will mark this as their first visit to South Bend for football purposes. But over 60 years ago, in a galaxy…
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Duranko’s Digest: What did we see against Northwestern?
Northwestern beat Notre Dame 43-40 in a game that was as repulsive in its unfolding as the result. It was a bad loss to a bad football team, which may…
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Duranko’s Digest: Notre Dame’s Disaster in the Desert
On a weekend when the sports media bubbled over with Veteran’s Day references, Notre Dame’s offense, in whole and in part, was simply overrun by Arizona State’s blitz package. It…
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against Navy?
The Fighting Irish squeaked past Navy 49-39 in a weird affair that more closely resembled a Halloween House of Horrors than a first rate triumph by an outstanding team.
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Duranko’s Digest: Notre Dame Football Program-Semi-Annual Report
With seven games behind us it’s time for the Midyear Report. ASSETS/LIMITATIONS: THE UNITS We rank the units according to three categories: FINAL FOUR MAJOR BOWL BOWL This is primarily…
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Duranko’s Digest: What did we see in Tallahassee?
Jameis Winston led three excruciating, Heisman-quality drives of 70 yards or more to lead Florida State to a comeback 31-27 victory over the Fighting Irish, extending the Seminole win streak…
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against North Carolina?
Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish overcame potentially fatal offensive turnovers and the first signs of vulnerability from the hitherto impregnable defense to survive North Carolina 50 -43. Though the tilt was a textbook…
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Duranko’s Digest: What did we see against Stanford?
The FIGHTING IRISH validated their nickname in a tense 17-14 win over Stanford. Everett "Two Minute Drill" Golson floated a sweet 23 yard pass to the steadfast Ben Koyack to…
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against Syracuse?
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was a display of genius, it was a display of foolishness- for Everett Golson. (Apologies to Dickens)…
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