Analysis
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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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IBG: Looking to Make a Seminole Statement Edition
I promise that this will be the last time this season my addition to the weekly Irish Blogger Gathering is getting posted on Saturday morning, but that real life thing…
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Is Notre Dame Ready for an Undefeated, Primetime Showdown?
Trap games are common in college football. It’s easy to understand why a football team like Notre Dame would struggle to get “up” for its contest against North Carolina –…
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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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IBG: Avoiding Letdowns and Not Looking Ahead Edition
As Notre Dame looks to improve to 6-0 on the season and set up an epic matchup with #1 ranked Florida State, the Irish Blogger Gathering examines what the Irish…
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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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5 Things I Liked from Notre Dame v. Stanford
Wow, what a game. Notre Dame and Stanford’s heavy weight bout yesterday had a little bit of everything. Turnovers, horrible weather, last minute drives, 4th down conversions, and so on…
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IBG: Chopping Down Trees Edition
As the saying goes, better late than never. It’s been a bit of a hectic week so this week’s IBG is a bit late and a few columns unfortunately had…
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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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Notre Dame Football First Quarter Report
With three games behind us it’s time for a quarterly report, even if qualitative. ASSETS/LIMITATIONS: THE UNITS We rank the units according to three categories: (1) FINAL FOUR (2) MAJOR…
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Notre Dame Reshuffling OL Deck
Brian Kelly more than hinted that changes could be coming to the Notre Dame offensive line the last time he met with the media over a week ago following the…
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Notre Dame’s Wide Receiver Corps Grabbing Respect
Notre Dame’s undefeated September campaign has created a throng of storylines. Everett Golson – the Fighting Irish’s modern version of the Prodigal Son – has returned from academic exile to…
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Red Zone No Longer a Dead Zone for Notre Dame
One of the most frustrating aspects of Notre Dame’s disappointing 9-4 campaign in 2013 was the Irish’s red zone futility. A year ago the Notre Dame offense scored points on…
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Grading Notre Dame at the Bye: Defense
Notre Dame lost six starters from last year’s defense and changed defensive schemes following the departure of Bob Diaco to be the head coach of UConn and subsequent hiring of…
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Grading Notre Dame at the Bye: Offense
As Notre Dame enters its first bye weekend of the season, we took a closer look at each position unit on the offensive side of the ball today. The Irish…
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Notre Dame Football 2014 Freshman 1st Quarter Report
As Notre Dame heads into the second quarter of the 2014 season, the Irish are 3-0 in part because of the play of its freshman class. Though not as heralded…
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Notre Dame Defense – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
As Notre Dame enters its first bye week of the season, we take a close look at the revitalized Notre Dame defense led by a ground of talented youngsters who…
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IBG: Evaluating Notre Dame at the Bye Edition
Notre Dame might be a on bye week this week, but the Irish Blogger Gathering isn’t. We’re hard at work again this week with our weekly roundtable discussion of the…
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10 Things For Notre Dame to Work on During the Bye
Notre Dame’s early season bye week really could not have come at a better time for the Fighting Irish. With some mounting injuries and plenty of areas to address despite…
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against Purdue?
Rallying from the season’s first deficit, the Irish tightened the screws defensively and scored the Shamrock Classic’s games last 20 points to beat Purdue 30-14, moving to 3-0 before the…
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5 Things I Didn’t Like from Notre Dame v. Purdue ’14
For the first time this season this column was unfortunately not hard to write. The last two weeks Notre Dame left very little for their not to like with a…
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Notre Dame v. Purdue ’14 – 5 Things I Liked
It took a little more effort than anyone thought it would last night but Notre Dame improved to 3-0 last night following a 30-14 win over Purdue in the Shamrock…
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IBG: Avoiding the Let Down and Dominating Edition
The Irish Blogger Gathering returns again this week as we all try to manufacture some excitement for Purdue following last week’s emotionally draining game against Michigan. Amazingly, all of the…
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Michigan Game Highlights Brian Kelly’s Stamp on Notre Dame
Brian Kelly had some signature moments as the head coach at Notre Dame in 2012. Road wins over Top 10 teams Oklahoma and Michigan State. The win over USC to…
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5 Things I Didn’t Like from Notre Dame v. Michigan ’14
For the second week in a row this column is extremely difficult to write because the Fighting Irish didn’t give us a whole lot not to like in their shutout…
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