Notre Dame travels to Ann Arbor on Saturday night to write another chapter in the moderately significant but soon to be discontinued rivalry with the Michigan Wolverines. Both teams won season-opening games against overmatched opponents, but this contest is a more reliable barometer of strength and national standing. The Irish will try to dispel the…
Week Two of the Irish Blogger Gathering kicks off with Ryan Ritter of Her Loyal Sons answering my five … er, three questions for the week. I, in turn, was queried by Frank Vitovich at UHND. The other exchanges can be sampled at Strong & True, Inside the Irish, and Subway Domer. The big…
Notre Dame started fast with a pair 32-yard touchdown passes from Tommy Rees to DaVaris Daniels in the first five minutes, but appeared to quickly lose interest while completing a methodical 28-6 victory over the outmanned Temple Owls. There were even a few tense moments in the second quarter, but order was restored when Temple…
Mike Royko never said, “Some things you wonder, some things you think, and some things you just know,” but damned if I’m going to stop pretending he did. This was one of those games probably best viewed through the prism of an entire season. Either we’re going to look back on it as shaking off…
It wasn’t the longest offseason in Notre Dame history – it just seemed like it. After eight months of setbacks both on and off the gridiron, Notre Dame hopes to rekindle the magic that helped produce a 12-0 regular season in 2012. The Irish will ease into this campaign by hosting the Temple Owls in…