Analysis
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Josh Adams, Notre Dame’s Latest Next Man In
When CJ Prosise went down with an injury last weekend, all freshman Josh Adams did was step in and nearly break a Notre Dame freshman record.
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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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Joe Schmidt, Jaylon Smith Hold Key for Notre Dame D
Prior to the 2015 season, I wrote about this being a make or break year for Brian VanGorder as the Notre Dame defensive coordinator. He returned a litany of starters…
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Notre Dame Mired by Inconsistency
Each football season brings with it a new identity for every team. Ohio State, the defending national champions, had the luxury of three quarterbacks capable of starting for seemingly any…
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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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Notre Dame’s Dominant OL: By the Numbers
Down 7-0 to rival USC after they drove the length of the field on their first series, the Notre Dame offense needed to answer. In prior years, you could expect…
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Notre Dame A Tale of Two Defenses
Notre Dame fans had every reason to be concerned about the USC Trojans heading into last Saturday’s prime time matchup at Notre Dame Stadium. Yes, the Trojans were coming off…
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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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Notre Dame Special Teams The Difference Over USC
Notre Dame special teams have lone been a major point of contention for Irish fans on forums and blogs across the internet for years, but on Saturday night, it was…
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Stage is Set for Notre Dame, Will They Seize It?
The stage is set this weekend for Notre Dame to make a statement over one of their rivals, a rival that embarrassed them a year ago with the Irish limped…
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Time for Notre Dame Football to Take Next Step
With the coming of the annual USC clash brings familiar feelings for Notre Dame fans, and those feelings come in some form of trepidation. Since the Pete Carroll era Trojans…
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Sheldon Day Emerging as Notre Dame’s Defensive Leader
Sheldon Day has been a captain for Notre Dame for the past two seasons now, but it hasn’t been until the last few weeks that Notre Dame’s stout defensive end…
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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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Notre Dame on ‘Trap Game’ Alert vs. Navy
Notre Dame is bigger, stronger, and faster than Navy but that never seems to matter when the Fighting Irish and Middies battle. This year is no different.
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Deshone Kizer Continues to Grow as Notre Dame’s QB
There's a laundry list of reasons why Notre Dame lost to Clemson this past weekend. The play of redshirt freshman quarterback Deshone Kizer isn't one of them.
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Notre Dame Football’s Silver Lining
Notre Dame fans were disappointed with the Irish's narrow defeat to Clemson, but plenty of positives came out of Notre Dame's trip to Death Valley.
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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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Notre Dame’s Early Schedule Casts Doubt
College football schedules are an inexact science to the least. On paper, Notre Dame’s September schedule looked like a gauntlet when it was originally put together. Texas, Virginia, Georgia Tech,…
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Verdict Comes in Saturday for Notre Dame
There has been a mountain of evidence that shows Notre Dame is a worthy College Football Playoff contender through four games; three routes, one nail-biter on the road with the…
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Notre Dame Football’s Perfect September
With Notre Dame’s dominating 62-27 victory over Massachusetts the Fighting Irish finished September with an undefeated record for the third time in head coach Brian Kelly’s six year stint at…
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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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An Unlikely Hero
The 2015 Notre Dame football season was to be one of perseverance at the quarterback position.
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We had questions, Notre Dame had the answers
So, that went really well. You never quite know with openers. Sometimes it’s a 38-3 win that shows the quality of a team ranked just outside the pre-season top 10.…
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