Author: Leprechaun Express - Steve Welsh

College Football Preseason Coaches Poll top-10 1 Texas 2 Ohio State 3 Penn State 4 Georgia 5 #NotreDame 6 Clemson 7 Oregon 8 Alabama 9 LSU 10 Miami [from espn.com/college-football/rankings]

Notre Dame’s first New Year’s Day football game was not the 1925 Rose Bowl, when Knute Rockne, the Four Horsemen and the Seven Mules beat Stanford to cap off a 1924 National Championship season. According to the Notre Dame Football Media Guide’s game-by-game history, Notre Dame’s first New Year’s Day game was on January 1st, 1894, in a regular season

“Outlined against the ‘rock-ribbed ledges’ of the Arroyo Seco and ‘the broad sweep of a mild sun,’ the Four Horsemen rode one last time in the Rose Bowl of Jan. 1, 1925. Notre Dame arrived Dec. 31, only one day in advance of its 27-10 victory over Stanford. The game punctuated a 10-0 season, a first consensus national title, coaching

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Notre Dame has cycled through various positives and negatives, mostly positives, throughout the Brian Kelly era.  Yet one of the UFO-like curiosities has been — The Flat Game. There is a quote that sounds like it belongs with Mark Twain, yet in reality was from Oliver Wendell Holmes, about how a sleeping dog knows whether somebody tripped over him or

Notre Dame Fighting Irish take on Alabama in the Rose Bowl CFP National Semifinal

Brian Kelly talks with reporters as Notre Dame readies for Rose Bowl CFP National Semifinal and Alabama