SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU/AP) – A nearly two-hour weather delay wasn’t enough to slow down what many consider to be the best running back tandem in the country, as No. 24 Notre Dame ran all over Purdue en route to a 56-30 win on Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium. Coming off back-to-back top 25 losses against Miami and Texas A&M …
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) – Play is expected to resume at 7 p.m. after Notre Dame’s home football game against Purdue, which is airing on WNDU, went into a lightning delay. Play was suspended with 1:31 remaining in the second quarter. When play resumes, the teams are expected to play the remaining 1:31 in the second quarter, take a short …
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A&M’s thrilling 41-40 victory over Notre Dame featured a high-intensity, emotional, highly competitive matchup between two very talented teams. From watching the game, you would say this was an evenly matched contest. The advanced stats tell a similar story. The story of the game (from a stats perspective) was that the Irish were slightly more successful on a down to …
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Fourteen final thoughts on Notre Dame’s 41-40 loss to Texas A&M that left head coach Marcus Freeman without answers and the Irish without a win. 1. Freeman has a defensive coordinator problem. He doesn’t need to admit it. But he absolutely needs to understand it. For all the offseason talk about Chris Ash enhancing the defense, …
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KNOXVILLE, TN – Were you not entertained on Saturday with a college football slate that certainly delivered? If you weren’t, I don’t know what to tell you, or how you should go about the rest of the season. Whether it was the chaos in Knoxville between Georgia and Tennessee, or the wild fourth quarter in South Bend with Texas A&M …
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Notre Dame needs a miracle. A series of events to go exactly its way. It has to not only win out, but have a lot of results fall like dominoes in its direction. After Saturday’s gut-wrenching, last-second home loss to Texas A&M, the Irish’s backs are firmly against the wall. They have zero margin for error. No wiggle room. Source …
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Notre Dame became the first team in 37 years to start a season 0-2 and remain ranked, landing No. 24 on Sunday in the AP Top 25, with Texas A&M moving up six spots to No. 10 after beating the Fighting Irish. No. 1 Ohio State received 55 first-place votes to remain atop the poll for the third straight week. …
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Getty Images Texas A&M powered inside the top 10 of the updated Week 4 Coaches Poll following the Aggies’ momentum-building win at Notre Dame. It represents an early-season signature victory for Mike Elko. Slotted at No. 16 previously, Texas A&M ranks No. 10 Sunday after snapping a 13-game road losing streak against top 10 opponents dating back to 2015. Clemson …
Read More »NEW YORK (AP) — Texas A&M made a big jump into the top 10 of The Associated Press college football poll Sunday after its dramatic win at Notre Dame, and the Irish became the first team since 1988 to stay in the Top 25 with an 0-2 record. Ohio State, Penn State and LSU remained the top three teams, with …
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It’s time to question Texas. The Longhorns’ offense is not where it needs to be if Steve Sarkisian intends on getting this team back to a College Football Playoff semifinal for a third consecutive season. Texas has fallen out of our updated 12-team playoff projection after Week 3 following its unimpressive showing against UTEP, another head-scratching performance from a team …
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