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Notre Dame Over North Carolina – Small Ball is a Wonderful Thing
People are starting to realize that Notre Dame and their four guard lineup is more than just a gimmick, pulling off a 71-70 win against North Carolina with a Zach Auguste layup to win the game, although the Tar Heels had plenty of opportunities to seal the deal.
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Notre Dame Over LSU – The SEC Isn’t So Great After All
The SEC has good teams and bad teams. Their dominance in bowl games sometimes has to do with the matchups they get. Apparently, a team like LSU isn’t good enough to beat a subpar Notre Dame team, which says something about the hype this conference sometimes tends to get.
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Schools With the Most Heisman Trophy Winners
The 2014 Heisman Trophy winner is Marcus Mariota, the first one Oregon have ever produced (although he’s actually from Hawai’i). There are other programs that have seen one of their players lift the trophy quite a lot of times, especially USC, Notre Dame and Ohio State, proud to present the only two time winner, Archie Griffin.
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USC Over Notre Dame – Something Nice to Remember
A rivalry that’s lost some of its prestige in recent years is the one between USC and Notre Dame. The Trojans were the next team to run all over the Fighting Irish, winning 49-14 with a big game for Cody Kessler, setting down some groundwork for hopefully a big season next year.
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Notre Dame Fighting Irish – Arizona State End Their Playoff Hopes
No conference championship to play for and already carrying one loss, Notre Dame weren’t fighting difficult odds to make the first ever College Football playoff. A 55-31 loss to Arizona State in a clash between two top 10 teams ended those remaining hopes.
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College Football – Notre Dame vs Arizona State Predictions
A top 10 clash in Tempe as Notre Dame, number 10 in the nation, try to keep their hopes of making the College Football playoff alive by winning against Number 9 Arizona State, right now en route to make their second consecutive Pac-12 championship game.
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Florida State Over Notre Dame – Earning the Number One Spot in the Nation
It may have come down to a controversial penalty call in the final seconds, but Florida State came through with a big 31-27 win over Notre Dame in a game between the number two and number five teams in the nation. It was close and maybe with a little bit of luck but at least for this week, it should give the Seminoles enough credit to sit on top of the rankings once again.
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College Football – Notre Dame vs Florida State Predictions
For Florida State, hosting the Fighting Irish might the final difficult hurdle to jump over en route to another undefeated season and making the College Football playoffs. Notre Dame aren’t just arriving to play spoilers, but with realistic intentions and plans of not just coming away with victory, but finding themselves among the best four teams in the nation when it’s time to choose.
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College Football – Only Six Undefeated Teams Left
Less craziness than last week, but after Auburn, Arizona, Georgia Tech and TCU lost for the first time this season, we’re left with just six undefeated teams: Two in the SEC (Ole Miss & Mississippi State), one in the ACC (Florida State), one in the Big 12 (Baylor), one in Conference USA (Marshall) and Notre Dame, an Independent.
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Notre Dame Fighting Irish – Everett Golson Great When it Matters
For the first time this season, Notre Dame needed something big to happen late. Everett Golson wasn’t having a good game, but the return-from-suspension quarterback has come through for them all season long, and it wasn’t any different with a big, late, on a fourth down touchdown pass to deliver the 17-14 win over Stanford.