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The Notre Dame quarterback room has been landing in all kinds of top 10 lists this offseason, and that of Pro Football Focus is on par with the rest of them. PFF has the Fighting Irish’s contingent of four scholarship QBs ranked eighth nationally. “For the second straight season, Notre Dame will be starting an ACC transfer under center,” PFF’s Max Chadwick wrote. “Riley Leonard comes to South Bend from Duke and will take over for the departed Sam Hartman. He led the ACC with a 2% turnover-worthy play rate over the past two years, and his 17 rushing touchdowns in that span tied for the most. “R...
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Notre Dame landed at No. 7 in The Athletic’s preseason Top 25, which senior college football columnist and editor-in-chief Stewart Mandel released Tuesday morning. The Irish trailed only Georgia, Ohio State, Texas, Alabama, Oregon and Ole Miss, respectively. If these were the final rankings, Notre Dame would be the No. 9 seed in the 2024-25 College Football Playoff and travel to Oxford, Miss. for its first-round game (as hypothetical conference champions, No. 8 Utah and No. 10 Florida State would receive first-round byes and be seeded No. 3 and No. 4). “Proven quarterback Riley Leonard (Duke) ...
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For the first time ever, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Boise State Broncos will square off in football on Oct. 4, 2025. Notre Dame announced the news in a press release Tuesday afternoon. It’ll mark the second consecutive season Notre Dame goes against an opponent for the first time ever. The Irish are hosting Northern Illinois this fall. After the matchups against the Huskies and Broncos, the Irish will have faced 90 of 134 FBS teams. Boise State went 8-6 as a member of the Mountain West Conference last season. That included a 6-2 conference record for the Broncos with an appearance in th...
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One of Notre Dame’s greatest all-time players is on the College Football Hall of Fame ballot for the first time. Manti Te’o is one of 77 players and nine coaches from the FBS up for consideration on the 2025 ballot. Te’o was a Heisman Trophy finalist in 2012. He led Notre Dame to an appearance in the national championship game with 113 total tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks and 7 interceptions. A Unanimous All-American, Te’o was the first player in college football history to sweep the Maxwell, Walter Camp, Bednarik, Butkus, Lombardi and Nagurski awards in the same season. Te’o was the...
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On Monday morning, ESPN released its Football Power Index (FPI) ratings and projections for the 2024 college football season. The algorithm, which rates each team on offense, defense and special teams relative to the average team, was very kind to Notre Dame. Before diving into the details, here is how FPI works, as described by ESPN’s Neil Paine: “The FPI is a power rating that tracks each team’s strength relative to an average FBS squad. Teams are rated on offense, defense and special teams, with the values representing points per game. (So that means Georgia is rated as nearly 27 points per...
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Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman met with select members of the local South Bend media for an on-the-record conversation spanning over 45 minutes Friday afternoon. Blue & Gold is publishing everything Freeman said in two installments. This is part two of the conversation. How has your perspective on what you have at the offensive tackle position changed since this winter, going into the summer? “I feel really good about [Charles] Jagusah. He’s going to be solid at that left tackle position, and I knew it — again, I got to spend a lot of time with him on the scout team last year and he’s ju...
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Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman met with select members of the local South Bend media for an on-the-record conversation spanning over 45 minutes Friday afternoon. Blue & Gold is publishing everything Freeman said in two installments. This is part one of the conversation. How is Riley Leonard’s health and what can you tell us about the retreat he took with some Notre Dame teammates back to his hometown to work out with Phillip Rivers? “I don’t know the details of it. He told me he was going to do that and have some of the wideouts come down there. I know he has a QB trainer, a QB coach down the...
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Entering summer workouts, several Notre Dame football players are recovering from long-term injuries. The latest is junior running back Gi’Bran Payne, who underwent ACL reconstruction surgery shortly after the Blue-Gold Game on April 20. In a sit-down with local reporters on Friday, Irish head coach Marcus Freeman updated the statuses of those players, including junior cornerback Benjamin Morrison and senior tight end Mitchell Evans. Gi’Bran Payne undergoes successful ACL surgery, not necessarily out for the seasonSignificantly, Freeman did not rule Payne out for the entire 2024 season. He doe...
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As Thursday wound down, most believed a Notre Dame men’s lacrosse player would win the Tewaaraton Award, known as lacrosse’s Heisman Trophy, for the first time in program history. It was just a matter of who. When the results came in, the greatest offensive player in Irish history beat out the greatest defensive player in Irish history. Graduate student attackman Pat Kavanagh won the 2024 Tewaaraton Award as the top player in men’s college lacrosse. Kavanagh was one of five finalists for the honor, alongside his teammate, graduate student Irish goalie Liam Entenmann. Yale senior attackman Matt...
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Deland McCullough’s stable of running backs has lost a key contributor. Notre Dame junior running back Gi’Bran Payne has suffered a torn ACL in his right knee, the team announced on social media on Thursday, and will miss the 2024 season. Dr. Brian Ratigan performed the reconstructive surgery. The 5-foot-9, 203-pound Payne’s injury comes after he appeared in agony following a fumble in the Blue-Gold Game on April 20. That carry was his last one of the spring game. He finished with 10 rushes for 58 yards while handling most of the “Blue” team’s rushing duties. ORDER NOW: Purchase the 2024 Blue ...
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