Aug 29, 2024

Jessica Smetana joins to select the things we're most excited to see this Fighting Irish football season. Also: Big-picture thoughts, predictions, advice for Notre Dame fans traveling to College Station and the debut of campus' newest statue, Hot Dog Jesus.

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Aug 26, 2024

Alex Herrmann and Andrew Smith of Notre Dame, Our Blogger join to preview all 12 opponents on this fall's Fighting Irish schedule.

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Aug 21, 2024

Jamie Uyeyama of Irish Sports Daily returns for Part Two of this year's Frosh O series to talk about every scholarship freshman on the Notre Dame defense. Included:

• Can Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa really be Manti 2.0?
• Tae Johnston has upside at safety, but Kennedy Urlacher could be in the mix on special teams from the jump.

Aug 20, 2024

Jamie Uyeyama of Irish Sports Daily joins for Part 1 of this year's Frosh O series to talk about every scholarship freshman on the Notre Dame offense. Included:

• The present and future of the line arrives in Anthonie Knapp and Guerby Lambert.
• Which tailback has the best chance to contribute this season between Kedren...

Aug 15, 2024

Irish Sports Daily's Greg Flammang and 18 Stripes' Michael Bryan dive into the nitty gritty of nine position groups. There's unanimity about who's first and who's last (with some breaking news on the latter) along with a promising amount of gray area between them.

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