Category: Predictions

With the Playoff rankings out and ND slotted at a surprising 5th, if that does not get the players fired up nothing will. They need a little help, but mostly it is entirely up to this team to bring it home over the final 4 games. It starts with Pitt and ND absolutely must put

All of a sudden a lot is going on about this game: Temple is now 7-0. It is the first time in their history College Game Day Temple is in the Top 25 Probably one of the hottest young coaches around Matt Rhule (40) former Penn State LB succeeded Steve Addazio (now BC coach) Dec.

This night game, I believe, is setting up as a disaster for ND. First off we never play that well at night and usually start out completely flat. The 2nd problem revolves around USC itself and recruits. This is evolving into a best case scenario for a very good team without a coach against a

We start this new week with the news that USC HC Steve Sarkisian has been put on indefinite leave following some bizarre behavior. He will be replaced by OC Clay Helton. Helton has done this before so I don’t think this will hurt much. What will hurt USC is the loss of starting Center Max

Navy (4-0) comes to ND with what Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo says is his best team in years – some are even saying since the 1960’s. Great, that along with cut blocks is just what we need. Navy’s option attack while similar to Georgia Tech relies on more formations and movement and they have a

ND is licking its wounds after a tough loss in the rain to a team, that I believe, is going nowhere. Clemson really doesn’t have the offense to make it anywhere near the top four. A rebuilt defense threw our OL around like rag dolls. I wasn’t sold on this OL and far too many

When considering this game go back to the last 50 seconds of the GT game where GT easily scored 15 points. Then consider the easy 2 missed FG’s by GT. ND pass defense is really a concern in this game and similar to Virginia, UMASS can pass and comes in with a 6’6″ QB with

Adding fuel to the fire we now learn that GT HC Paul Johnson has an extreme dislike for Brian VanGorder that goes back years. It’s bad enough that Johnson has been waiting to bring a legitimate team into ND stadium and get revenge for his Navy losses. Well, Johnson is bringing a prolific high scoring

Paul Johnson, the cerebral HC at Georgia Tech has been waiting years to come into ND Stadium with a real football team as opposed to when he was at Navy. Now he has first class athletes and they are not outweighed 50lbs per man. Think Navy on steroids and after watching the UVA game, where

What makes a prediction here difficult is that we don’t really know how bad Texas is. I think it’s worse than it appears, for after one game they just demoted their OC. So, we looked good last week but was that just ephemeral and now we go up against a so so team whose HC