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Big Game Boomer: Notre Dame will win seven to 11 games in 2024

What would need to happen for the Irish to hit their floor?

Predictions about whether Notre Dame will make the 2024 [autotag]College Football Playoff[/autotag] seem to be of the mixed variety.

They’ve ranged from the Irish hosting a first-round game, to playing in a fringe bowl game. It sounds like many experts expect the Irish’s season to either be a great success or colossal failure.

Among those who think the Irish could fall on either end of the spectrum is Big Game Boomer, who has made one college football list after another for social media. The time had come for him to predict the ceiling and floor for every Football Bowl Subdivision team, and he has the Irish going 11-1 at best and 7-5 at worst:

With all the talent the Irish have, it seems highly unlikely they’ll mess things up so badly that they end up a bowl most people don’t care about. But the chance is there, and that’s enough to scare any Irish fan. Let’s hope they don’t let it happen.

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Notre Dame defensive backs coach named second best in college football

How effective will the secondary be this year?

A lot of things can determine whether or not a college football unit is strong. Players can lift up coaches as well as the other way around. We don’t know if that’s the case at Notre Dame, but one definitely could make that case.

[autotag]Mike Mickens[/autotag] is the Irish’s defensive backs coach, and he’s blessed to have future NFL first-round pick [autotag]Benjamin Morrison[/autotag] as part of his unit, not to mention another future NFL player in [autotag]Xavier Watts[/autotag].

Whether Morrison and Watts have anything to do with it or not, Big Game Boomer, the college football list aficionado on social media, has listed Mickens as the second-best defensive backs coach in the sport:

The Irish widely are expected to have a strong defensive unit again this season, and the defensive backs should be a major reason why. Mickens has plenty of talent there, and he now must figure out how to get his players to be in sync with one another.

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Offensive line named biggest liability for Notre Dame in 2024

Do you agree?

Every college football program has a weakness from the best to the worst. That’s why Big Game Boomer, who has published one college football list after another on social media, decided to determine the biggest liability for every Football Bowl Subdivision program and put it all into a list.

When it came time to pick Notre Dame’s biggest liability in 2024, Big Game Boomer opted to go with the offensive line:

At first, one might scoff at the idea of the Irish having weak offensive linemen. Then, you remember that the corps lost [autotag]Joe Alt[/autotag] and [autotag]Blake Fisher[/autotag] to the NFL. What’s left is a group consisting of a few upperclassmen but a lot of freshmen and sophomores. Indeed, [autotag]Joe Rudolph[/autotag]’s job has gotten tougher.

Irish fans undoubtedly will be concerned if the offensive skills players can’t do what they’re able to because their blockers failed them. There’s a reason those players always credit those blockers when they’ve had a big game. Without them, they’re nothing.

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Notre Dame running backs coach named third-best in college football

How much faith do you have in him?

Every Notre Dame fan seemingly wants their team to have a pass-heavy offense to keep up with football in the 21st century. But let’s not diminish the importance of running the football still. If anything, the Irish really seem to understand this, and they have a great coach in charge of that unit.

[autotag]Deland McCullough[/autotag] is entering his second season as Irish running backs coach. That’s good news if one takes what Big Game Boomer, social media’s resident college football list maker, at face value. The reason for that is he just unveiled his list of the top running backs coaches in the sport, and McCullough clocks in at third:

McCullough saw his top pupil from last year, [autotag]Audric Estime[/autotag], graduate to the NFL. But he still has a full room led by [autotag]Jeremiyah Love[/autotag] and [autotag]Jadarian Price[/autotag]. Irish fans are waiting to see how much he can get out of them and the rest of his guys in 2024.

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Al Golden named college football’s ninth-best defensive coordinator

What do you make of this ranking?FL

As has been the case in years past, Notre Dame is expected to dominate on the defensive side of the ball. While the offense hopefully will be much improved compared to years past, defense remains a hallmark for the Irish. At the moment, it starts with defensive coordinator [autotag]Al Golden[/autotag], and the Irish are lucky to have him for the third straight season.

Big Game Boomer has been ranking college football players and coaches lately as he typically does on social media. The time has come for him to rank defensive coordinators, and Golden ranks in the top 10. In fact, he’s ninth:

The nice thing about this list is that Golden ranks ahead of every defensive coordinator he will coach against during the regular season. There’s no reason to think his unit will regress, especially with some future NFL talent under his wing. If the defense takes a step back in 2024, everyone will be asking him what went wrong, and it’s unlikely he intends to let that happen.

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Mike Denbrock is college football’s second-best offensive coordinator

No pressure, Mike.

As dominant as Notre Dame’s defense is expected to be in 2024, the offense has almost equally high expectations. Much of that has to do with the return of [autotag]Mike Denbrock[/autotag] as offensive coordinator after seven years of holding the same position at Cincinnati and then LSU. But the pressure he faces might have just gotten greater.

Big Game Boomer, social media’s college football list aficionado, has released his list of the sport’s 50 best offensive coordinators for the upcoming season. Denbrock was extremely high on the list. In fact, he was ranked second:

So now, there’s really no excuse for the Irish not to have the best offense they’ve had under [autotag]Marcus Freeman[/autotag]. If this group doesn’t make significant strides this season, a lot of questions will surface about how the Irish go after offensive talent both on the recruiting and coaching side. We’ll see how well everybody responds to these expectations.

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Big Game Boomer: ‘Nobody cares about’ Notre Dame-USC rivalry

Seriously?

If you’re a fan of Notre Dame or USC, you know how big the rivalry between the two programs is. Emotions run high whenever they play each other, and it’s the most famous intersectional rivalry in college football, spanning nearly a century. Don’t tell that to Big Game Boomer though.

Big Game Boomer, whom we’ve highlighted on this site several times for the college football lists he posts to social media, had to comment on a question posed by On3 about the best rivalry in the sport:

Beg your pardon? Why poke the bear on this? There’s a reason this game was played during all the other major rivalry games when the Trojans are the home team. But yeah, nobody cares about this game that’s played every year.

No disrespect to the Egg Bowl as it’s a great rivalry game in and of itself. But don’t build it up at the expense of the annual clash between the Irish and Trojans.

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List names Notre Dame ninth-best team heading into 2024

Like this ranking?

Ask any college football expert, and they typically have Notre Dame in the top 10 of any preseason rankings they put together. It’s proof that expectations will be high for the Irish with [autotag]Marcus Freeman[/autotag] entering his third season as coach and a plethora of talent on his roster.

One of many college football fans putting together their list of the top teams heading in 2024 is Big Game Boomer, known for his many lists he puts out on social media. The time has come for him to list what he believe to be the top 50 teams ahead of the season. The Irish clocked in at ninth on his list:

It’s worth noting that the Irish rank higher than any opponent they play this season. That includes Texas A&M, the Irish’s opponent in their first game, which will be on the road and many believe will determine the course of the rest of the season. We’ll see how well this holds up.

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Notre Dame’s Mitch Jeter named eighth-best kicker in college football

This should be good for the Irish.

As any college football fan will tell you, kickers at that level are particularly maddening. It really makes one appreciate how accurate NFL kicker are. College football really weeds out those who get to the next level and those who don’t.

Fortunately, Notre Dame has less of a chance of a big game being lost on a missed kick. That’s because Big Game Boomer, social media’s college football list guru, has ranked [autotag]Mitch Jeter[/autotag], the Irish’s transfer kicker from South Carolina, as the eighth-best player at his position:

This isn’t to say the Irish haven’t had some decent kickers in recent years. But the fact that Jeter is coming over from arguably the sport’s best conference in the SEC, and the fact that he should have the edge in most matchups this season should give Irish fans reason for optimism. You want someone with a good reputation when the game is on the line, and Jeter fits the bill.

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Notre Dame’s Xavier Watts named third-best safety in college football

Time for him to go out and prove it.

Notre Dame figures to rely on its defense once again to win football games in 2024. It’s hard to dispute that given that there’s some future NFL talent on that side of the ball. Among that talent is safety [autotag]Xavier Watts[/autotag], who many currently project to be taken as high as the third round in the 2025 draft.

Big Game Boomer, college football’s list aficionado on social media, has released his list of the top 50 safeties in college football entering the upcoming season. Let’s just say Watts will be the best safety on either side of the ball at least during every regular-season game for the Irish this year:

Big Game Boomer already had reserved spots on his respective position lists for [autotag]Benjamin Morrison[/autotag], [autotag]Jack Kiser[/autotag], [autotag]Howard Cross III[/autotag], [autotag]Rylie Mills[/autotag] and [autotag]RJ Oben[/autotag]. Most recently, he has put transfer Jordan Clark on his nickel/slot corners list:

So yeah, this defense is gonna be good. Let’s hope the offense can support it.

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