College Football Playoff & AP Top 25 Rankings
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Notre Dame Has Positioned Itself to be in CFP Top 4
Notre Dame has been building its College Football Playoff resume ever since Brandon Wimbush got strip sacked to end the Georgia game and the final seconds ticked off the clock. …
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Notre Dame Vaults into AP Top 10 After USC Blowout
Notre Dame football is back in the AP Top 10 following yesterday’s utter destruction of USC. The Irish are ranked 9th in the latest poll, up four spots from the…
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Notre Dame Football Opens 2017 Coaches Poll Unranked
It shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to anyone coming off a 4-8 campaign – even with an encouraging off-season – but the 2017 Notre Dame Fighting Irish…
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Notre Dame Football On Verge of Doing Something it Hasn’t Done in 23 Years
It will have been 247 days and approximately 5,928 hours since Notre Dame last took the field by the time the Fighting Irish square off against the Texas Longhorns this…
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Notre Dame Ranked #10 in ’16 Pre-Season AP Poll
While the mood around Notre Dame football was a bit somber this weekend following the two separate incidents that resulted in six players arrested, the Irish received good news on…
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Notre Dame Opens 2016 Season in Coaches Poll Top 10
After finishing the 2015 season ranked 12th in the Coaches Poll, the Irish will start the 2016 season just inside the top 10 checking in at #9. The top 10…
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AP Ranks Notre Dame Football #3 All-Time
In the final few excruciating days without any sort of real college football news before teams begin fall camps, the Associated Press gave college football fans across the country something…
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Notre Dame, Down Not Out of Playoff Race
While last night’s release of the most recent playoff rankings did indeed deal a crushing blow to Notre Dame’s playoff hopes, the Irish are not out of the playoff race…
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Latest Rankings Deliver Crushing Blow to Notre Dame
Notre Dame has not been overly impressive the last two weeks and the sloppy play has finally caught up to the Irish in the rankings even if it hasn’t on…
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Tonight’s Playoff Rankings Critical for Notre Dame
Many have argued that the only College Football Playoff Rankings that really matter are the final ones that will be announced on December 6 because they are the rankings that…
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Notre Dame Moves to 4th in Coaches Poll
Notre Dame may have spent the better part of Saturday night in Fenway Park shooting themselves in the feet, but they did do one very important thing that some other…
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Notre Dame Football Playoff Report: Week 12
This week, Notre Dame maintained their #4 ranking in the college football playoff after a wild weekend that saw four top 10 teams lose. Most Irish fans would agree they…
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Projecting Notre Dame’s Week 12 Playoff Rankings
Last week Notre Dame moved up to 4th in the College Football Playoff Rankings on the heels os an impressive road win over Pitt in which the final score wasn’t…
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Notre Dame Football Playoff Report: Week 11
Who’s In? The Irish jumped a spot to #4 in this week’s College Football Playoff committee poll. Although the Irish won 42-30, the 12-point victory was a dominant one for…
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Notre Dame Improves to #4 in Playoff Rankings
After Oklahoma State’s impressive win over TCU this past weekend, many speculated that the Cowboys would jump all the way to 4th in the College Football Playoff rankings – leap…
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Notre Dame Improves to 6th in AP, Coaches Polls
Following their 42-30 win over Pitt on the road this weekend, Notre Dame moved up to 6th in both the AP & Coaches Polls.
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Notre Dame Playoff Report: Week 10
As we continue the playoff watch articles for the rest of the season, we will now switch from using the AP Poll as the basis for rankings discussion to the…
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Notre Dame Ranked 5th in First 2015 Playoff Rankings
When the first College Football Playoff Rankings were released on Tuesday night, Notre Dame and its fans were pleasantly surprised with the results. The one loss Fighting Irish came in…
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Notre Dame Jumps Stanford in AP Poll
While many Notre Dame fans weren’t too impressed with the Irish’s four point road victory over then #22 ranked Temple, the AP voters apparently were – or at least more…
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Notre Dame Football Playoff Picture: Week 9
The Irish moved up two spots to #9 in the AP poll after Utah and Florida State fell from the ranks of the unbeaten. As a reminder, we’re only look…
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Notre Dame Football Playoff Picture: Week 8
Notre Dame's win over USC has the Irish alive and well in the playoff race with a weekend of scoreboard watching on tap this weekend.
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Notre Dame Back in Coaches Poll Top 10
Notre Dame’s win over USC last night combined with a handful of higher ranked teams falling this weekend has propelled the Irish back into the top 10 of the Amway…
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Notre Dame Football Playoff Picture Report: Week 7
Review of last week: #17 USC upset by Washington 17-12 | This was a brutal hit to the hype surrounding this week’s game and Notre Dame’s strength of schedule resume…
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Breaking Down Notre Dame’s Playoff Hopes
For only the third time in the past 13 years, Notre Dame exited the month of September unbeaten. Each of the past two seasons, the Irish suffered its first loss…
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Way Too Early to Freak Out Over Playoff Rankings
The first ever College Football Playoffs rankings were released on Tuesday night and one of the biggest stories was how low Notre Dame was ranked in the initial rankings. The…
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