Notre Dame Primer -- Get Ready for Pittsburgh!

ND QB DeShone Kizer on Dan Patrick Show

Impressive young man...

Pitt's Preview: Notre Dame vs. Pittsburgh

Pitt Coach: "Notre Dame Should Have to Join..."

Pitt Panthers head coach Pat Narduzzi just spoke to the media and he openly questioned Notre Dame's scheduling (really?) and their ability to play for the National Championship without joining a conference -- see link below...

STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE RANKINGS as of 11/05/15

• #5 Notre Dame
• #34 Pittsburgh

I for one -- think Notre Dame Football would LOVE to play the same teams Pitt is playing this year, next year -- every year...

• Youngstown State
• Akron
• Villanova

LINK:  NARDUZZI ON IRISH

ESPN's Bomani Jones Talks ND & CFB Playoff

ESPN radio host Bomani Jones talks "Notre Dame bias" in the College Football Playoff ranking...

LINK:  BOMANI JONES

Russillo & Kanell Talk CFB Playoff Rankings

Here is ESPN Radio's Ryen Russillo and Danny Kanell talking about the first week of rankings for the College Football Playoff with Committee Chair Jeff Long...

LINK:  RUSSILLO & KANELL

Notre Dame Football Featured in Gatorade Ad

This is an ad campaign from Gatorade where they claim to feature some of the "world's best athletes and teams..."   

And, they picked the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame!

Mike & MIKE Talk ND & CFB Playoff Rankings

ESPN's morning radio show -- talks the first rankings from the CFB Playoff and Notre Dame...

LINK:  MIKE & MIKE -- CFB PLAYOFF RANKINGS

Temple Win -- Inside Notre Dame Football Show

Temple Game -- Inside Look at ND's Victory!

Herbstreit Talks Top Six in CFB Playoff Ranking

CFB Playoff Committee Chair Talks Selections

Six Game Playoff For a National Championship!

Here's what we know right now -- after being ranked #5 by the College Football Playoff Committee -- we win our next six football games this season, we are NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!

Playoff Game #1:  PITTSBURGH

Playoff Game #2:  WAKE FOREST

Playoff Game #3:  BOSTON COLLEGE

Playoff Game #4:  STANFORD

Playoff Game #5:  TBD  (Orange Bowl or Cotton Bowl)

National Championship Game:  TBD  (AT&T Stadium -- Dallas)

It just got real...

CFB Playoff Committe Has Notre Dame #5 !!!

This is going to create a conversation in Waco, East Lansing, Fort Worth, Iowa City and Tallahassee and a few other locations.  Shows you the CFB Playoff Committee is looking at strength of schedule.

TOP 6:

1.  CLEMSON
2.  LSU
3.  OHIO STATE
4.  ALABAMA
5.  NOTRE DAME
6.  BAYLOR

This means we win the rest of our games -- we "SHOULD" be in the PLAYOFF!!!

Fenway Park Readies for Notre Dame Football

Here's some early photos of the grounds crew at Fenway Park preparing to convert the baseball park into the home of the Shamrock Series game between Boston College and our Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Saturday, November 21st.

Pitt Week: Coach Kelly's Press Conference

PItt Head Coach Narduzzi Talks Notre Dame

Two Domers Secure "Shark Tank" Investment

Notre Dame alums Mike Doyle and Drew Mitchell -- co-founders of "Rent Like a Champion" were guests on ABC's hit show SHARK TANK this past Friday night and they secured a $200,000 investment for 10% of their company from Mark Cuban and "guest Shark" Mark Sacca.

Here's the Forbes story:

LINK:  DOMERS GET SHARK MONEY! 

If you want to watch the "negotiation" -- you'll have to click on the link below which will take you to the entire show:

LINK:  SHARK TANK EPISODE 6

Notre Dame Now #2 in the FEI Ranking!

The creator of the Fremeau Efficiency Index is a colleague of mine here at the University of Notre Dame by the name of Brian Fremeau.  Brian has been doing this statistical analysis work on football for a number of years --- really smart stuff.

And, his latest FEI rankings has the Fighting Irish ranked #2 in the country behind Clemson!

The Fremeau Efficiency Index (FEI) is a college football rating system based on opponent-adjusted drive efficiency. Approximately 20,000 possessions are contested annually in FBS vs. FBS games. First-half clock-kills and end-of-game garbage drives and scores are filtered out. Unadjusted game efficiency (GE) is a measure of net success on non-garbage possessions, and opponent adjustments are calculated with special emphasis placed on quality performances against good teams, win or lose. Other definitions:

• SOS: Strength of Schedule, measured as the likelihood of an elite team going undefeated against the given team's regular season schedule. Schedule strength data based on FEI ratings and calculated across other dimensions can be explored in this interactive visualization.
• FBS MW: Mean Wins, the average number of games a team with the given FEI rating would be expected to win against its regular season schedule of FBS opponents.
• FBS RMW: Remaining Mean Wins, the average number of games a team with the given FEI rating would be expected to win against the remainder of its regular season schedule of FBS opponents.
• OFEI: Opponent-adjusted Offensive Efficiency value generated per possession.
• DFEI: Opponent-adjusted Defensive Efficiency value generated per opponent possession.
• STE: Special Teams Efficiency value generated per game possession.
• FVE: Field Value Efficiency value generated per game possession.

LINK:  FEI RANKING -- ALL 128 FBS TEAMS

AP Poll: Notre Dame Jumps Stanford for #8

The latest Associated Press Poll has the Fighting Irish sitting at #8 -- between #7 Alabama and #9 Stanford...

LINK:  AP POLL