It Is The Year Of Our Lord, 2024, And Notre Dame Is About To Go UNDefeated
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Dear Faithful,
Welcome back to our annual tradition. College Football is upon us once again, but this year feels different. Notre Dame has always been an Independent, but now more than ever. NIL, transfer portal, Conference Expansion and realignment, and expanded playoffs. 150 years of tradition has been wiped away by the almighty dollar and we are left with a sport and a landscape that are so different that the sport we all love is barely recognizable. Being an Independent used to be about playing a national schedule and having autonomy. Now being an Independent is about values. College Football has become a behemoth screaming "MONEY, POWER, GREED". The Fighting Irish have planted their feet against the rising tide like Moses slamming his staff in the bedrock to push back the Red Sea. They have answered those behemoth screams with "GOD, COUNTRY, NOTRE DAME". Undaunted, unflinching, uNDefeated.
Notre Dame will continue their series against traditional rivals from the Los Angeles and Silicon Valley who sold out their former partners and now are aligned with the Rust Belt and Appalachia. ND will fight off calls to "join a conference" by traveling to Penn Station and College Station. Big, small, smart, dumb (Florida State), come one, come all. Notre Dame will beat them all. The uNDefeated blog his here. Hit the music again
@ Texas A&M
We hear "OVERRATED" chanted from Notre Dame haters all corners of the country. It's manifest destiny of hate for the Irish with no real facts to back it up. Here is the real list
ND is nowhere to be found on that list, but A&M has their first earned top 4 ranking. "Class rings, overhyped, and the 12th man. A&M deserves all the criticism that usually is pinned to the Irish. Their 12th man is loud, ours is a savior
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I am worried about the Notre Dame offensive line in this game, but Riley Leonard's legs guided by our Lord will put Notre Dame on a righteous path to the playoff.
Notre Dame 21-13
Northern Illinois
I can't lie. I hate that Notre Dame has added MAC schools to the schedule. Nobody will criticize Georgia for scheduling Tennessee Tech and UMass this year, but that is ND's cross to bear. Their schedule will always get picked apart. This year the picking is justified. The schedule is weaker than normal. I hate it. I also hate it for NIU who will get a nice paycheck, memory of a lifetime, and their teeth kicked in
Notre Dame 45-7
@ Purdue
I am glad Purdue is back on the schedule. If it were up to me Notre Dame would play USC, Navy, Stanford, Purdue, Boston College, Michigan, and Michigan State every year and then the remaining six games against a rotation of teams from the other power conferences. Purdue is little brother. You let your little brother hang around when you play against them before snatching it late with dominance. No difference here
Notre Dame 38-20, 3-0
Miami OH
See comments about NIU
Notre Dame 34-14, 4-0
Louisville
Revenge game for Notre Dame. They got their playoff chances cooked in Kentucky last year. Trap game spot of the schedule and ND got caught. No more surprises from Louisville. Notre Dame back playing a real team again for the first time since week 1, and bad news for Louisville…the offense is now settled in.
Notre Dame 37-20, 5-0
Stanford
The Stanford game was the moment Notre Dame probably knew they needed changes on offense. Mike Denbrock led LSU's QB to a Heisman last year and has come home to South Bend. This is the game where Leonard Heisman futures start to look nice.
Notre Dame 41-10, 6-0
@ Georgia Tech
I am looking forward to this game. Tech had a nice win in Dublin to start the season, but that's the final time they'll have any luck with the Irish. This game is in the Falcons stadium in Atlanta and you can bet yankees will storm down their in the greatest numbers since Sherman did it. The result will look the same as well.
Notre Dame 34-17, 7-0
Navy (MetLife Stadium)
Notre Dame stands for tradition, values historical rivals, and our armed services. I love when the ND players show respect for the Midshipmen on the field after the game. Arm in arm, singing fight songs, after annihilating them between the lines.
Notre Dame 45-6, 8-0
Florida State
Jordan Travis isn't walking through that door which means FSU is in BIG trouble. The last thing these guys want to do is travel up to Indiana in November before pretending to study for midterms.
Notre Dame 31-21, 9-0
Virginia
Cute little program that will always have a few athletes and smart players. That just isn't enough, especially on senior day. This team and this season were built upon the captains and grad seniors who had the NFL waiting for them but decided that what was being built at Notre Dame was more important than money. Howard Cross, Xavier Watts, Rylie Mills, and Jack Kiser will ride off into a blue-grey sunset will a huge applause with a game wrapped up in the 3rd quarter
Notre Dame 48-14, 10-0
Army (Yankee Stadium)
The Subway alumni in NYC get a treat as the Irish play another historical rival in a traditional venue. This will be the 24th time Notre Dame has played Army in Yankee Stadium. National Championships used to be on the line for both teams when they played, now it'll just be the Irish sprinting to the playoff.
Notre Dame 37-10, 11-0
@ USC
In the good ole days USC would be looking forward to the Rose Bowl, now they're hoping to be looking forward to Lucas Oil Stadium. The BigTen is really letting the Trojans ease into life as a Midwest team. They won't have to leave Los Angeles after November 2 and they're only tough away game in the BigTen is against Michigan in September. I think their defense will be improved (it can't be much worse), but they won't have a Heisman winning prodigy at QB to bail them out (not that it mattered last year). They won't have to worry about traveling to Indiana this year…at all. Not for ND and certainly not for the BigTen championship. Win Total line set at 7.5 so they'll likely just be hoping to get in a bowl game that ends with a dot com.
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Notre Dame 27-17, 12-0
After all that Notre Dame will an uNDefeated, possibly #1 ranked team getting ready to host a playoff game as the #5 seed in the playoff. That is just fine with me. Christmas playoff football at Notre Dame will be a religious experience. Wake Up the echoes. Celebrate our first playoff win and our Lord's birthday. We'll see you Saturday. Go Irish!