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Finding Their Team: International Students Embrace Notre Dame Football

Finding Their Team: International Students Embrace Notre Dame Football

On fall Saturdays at Notre Dame, the campus transforms. Alumni flood the quads, grills smoke beneath golden domes and the roar of Notre Dame Stadium echoes far beyond its...

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Accidental Renaissance: Notre Dame Football’s Revival in the 2012 Season

Accidental Renaissance: Notre Dame Football’s Revival in the 2012 Season

Notre Dame football is just one year removed from a magical trip to the national championship game, a 34-23 loss to Ohio State. Before that,...

Notre Dame 2026 Season Preview

Notre Dame 2026 Season Preview

Chaotic. Turbulent. Heartbreaking. All fitting descriptors for Notre Dame’s 2025 season. The campaign began with two close losses to College Football Playoff teams Miami and...

An Ode to Notre Dame’s Flag-Flying Tradition

An Ode to Notre Dame’s Flag-Flying Tradition

Notre Dame game days are rich with tradition. Trumpets in the dome. Pre-game Mass and player walk. The concert on the steps. Long-running family tailgates....

My Top 3 Scholastic Football Articles of All-Time

My Top 3 Scholastic Football Articles of All-Time

For most college football programs, digging up historical documents feels like a scavenger hunt. The quest for long-lost files leaves fans sifting through sketchy websites...

From the Field to Our Feeds

From the Field to Our Feeds

It’s the morning of Sept 14, 2025. You’re lying in your bed doing your routine morning scroll on social media, when you’re bombarded with one-lined graphics, hot takes and endless...

College Football: State of the... Union?

College Football: State of the... Union?

What’s the state of college football as the 2025-26 season comes to an end? Better than ever? Tetering towards disaster? It probably depends on who...

The Cost of Independence

The Cost of Independence

There is very little that can be relied on in college football right now. The mighty SEC has fallen. Indiana is the best team in the country and...

The Ones Who Walk Away from Notre Dame Stadium

The Ones Who Walk Away from Notre Dame Stadium

There’s nothing in the world like a Notre Dame game day. The parking lots are filled to the brim with cars, people spend the day enjoying each other’s company...

Finding Their Team: International Students Embrace Notre Dame Football

Finding Their Team: International Students Embrace Notre Dame Football

On fall Saturdays at Notre Dame, the campus transforms. Alumni flood the quads, grills smoke beneath golden domes and the roar of Notre Dame Stadium echoes far beyond its...

A Senior's Swan Song

A Senior's Swan Song

Delayed gratification. Marcus Freeman describes this concept as the result of “patience plus strategy,” reinforcing his belief that “there is no reward without pain, no success without struggle.” This simple,...

On the Road Again: Inside the football travels of student media

On the Road Again: Inside the football travels of student media

Each year, between Scholastic, WVFI Radio and others, Notre Dame student media covers every Fighting Irish football game — home and away. And while all of...

Love Goes Heisman

Love Goes Heisman

When a generational talent steps on the field, they’re easy to pick out. Typically, it's because one unmistakable trait separates them from the rest. For many, that manifests as...

Selection Sunday: No Answers in South Bend

Selection Sunday: No Answers in South Bend

After a season defined by growth, the Fighting Irish went into Selection Sunday believing they had done enough to earn a spot in the College Football Playoff. The team...

Over Before It Began: The First Quarter of the Syracuse Game

Over Before It Began: The First Quarter of the Syracuse Game

After the losses to Miami and Texas A&M to open the season, every game became a “must-win” for the Irish. Additionally, with the way the rankings were shaking out...

Gold is Heavier Than Steel

Gold is Heavier Than Steel

As the scent of steel mixed with images of glistening gold in “The Burgh,” College GameDay knew
that they had to roll into town. This game marked Notre...

Debt of Honor Paid in Song: Notre Dame’s Historic Navy Rivalry

Debt of Honor Paid in Song: Notre Dame’s Historic Navy Rivalry

Victorious by 39 points and securing their fifth straight win, the Irish don’t erupt in celebration. Instead, they unstrap their gleaming helmets, turn their backs to the student section...

The Kicking Conundrum

The Kicking Conundrum

With 32 seconds left in the third quarter, Notre Dame kicker Marcello Diomede shanked an extra point wide right to keep a 1-7 Boston College team within one score....

Aamil Wagner: A Force for Good

Aamil Wagner: A Force for Good

Aamil Wagner is one of the most impressive people I’ve met in my life,” Pete Bevacqua said on a Dec. 8 episode of “The Dan Patrick Show.” Wagner, an...

A Tradition of Excellence Up Front

A Tradition of Excellence Up Front

No position in football is as underappreciated as the offensive line. For the everyday fan, they’re just the guys up front who only get noticed...

Notre Dame - USC: The Pause in a Storied Rivalry

Notre Dame - USC: The Pause in a Storied Rivalry

Oct. 18, 2025. South Bend. Under stadium lights, rain-soaked jerseys and the night sky carried the noise of drums and horns across South Bend. Notre Dame and USC met...

Adon Shuler: A New Sheriff in Town

Adon Shuler: A New Sheriff in Town

As Adon Shuler burst onto the scene in 2024 with an interception in his first career start against Texas A&M, Chris Fowler called him a...

An Apology to Chris Ash

An Apology to Chris Ash

With just 13 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Texas A&M quarterback Marcel Reed delivered a touchdown strike to the back corner of the end zone, giving the Aggies...

No Margin for Error

No Margin for Error

They say it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. Notre Dame rode that mantra, among others, to massive success in 2024, overcoming an early loss...

Catholics vs. Convicts: The Rivalry Revisited

Catholics vs. Convicts: The Rivalry Revisited

In 1988, the Fighting Irish faced off against the Miami Hurricanes at home in South Bend for a game that anchored the brewing rivalry. Leading...

Start the Carr

Start the Carr

A tough decision kicked off the 2025 season Marcus Freeman called it one of the hardest decisions he’s made in his
life. Heading into the fall, few thought...

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