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Former Notre Dame football coach Gerry Faust dies at age 89

Rest in peace, Coach.

Sad news for longtime Notre Dame football fans broke Monday. [autotag]Gerry Faust[/autotag], who coached the Irish from 1981 to 1985, has died at age 89.

Over his five seasons in South Bend, Faust accumulated a record of 30-26-1, good for a .535 winning percentage. Under his leadership, the Irish won the 1983 Liberty Bowl over Doug Flutie and Boston College. The following year, they lost the 1984 Aloha Bowl to SMU in its last game before it was handed the death penalty a few years later.

A disappointing 1985 season in which the Irish went 5-6 prompted Faust to announce that he would resign after the final game against a Miami team coached by Jimmy Johnson. The Irish lost that game, 58-7, and the university would go on to hire [autotag]Lou Holtz[/autotag] as Faust’s successor.

After his Irish tenure ended, Faust went to coach at Akron, where he did so for nine seasons and compiling a 43-53-3 record. But he never lost his love for the Irish no matter how much time passed:

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Faust family during this difficult time.

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Start time announced for UNC’s final 2024 road football game

The UNC football season sure is winding down quick. North Carolina now knows its final road kickoff time.

You have every reason to be optimistic about how the North Carolina Tar Heels are playing football right now.

UNC (5-4, 2-3 ACC) has consecutive wins in its back pocket, dominating both Virginia and Florida State on the road. North Carolina broke its 4-game losing streak with a 41-14 thumping of the Cavaliers, then continued to play exceptional football when it overwhelmed the Seminoles, 35-11.

The Tar Heels next match up with Wake Forest on Saturday, Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. under the lights at Kenan Stadium, then ship up to Boston College on Nov. 23 for their road finale.

UNC just learned the start time for its clash with the Eagles (5-4, 2-3 ACC), as both teams will kick off at 12 p.m. ET next weekend.

North Carolina hasn’t played Boston College since 2020, when North Carolina won an extremely-close, 26-22 battle in the infamous COVID season. Sam Howell led the Tar Heel offense in that win, throwing for 225 yards and a touchdown.

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UNC and the Eagles are in very similar positions ahead of their Nov. 23 matchup, with a win by either squad possibly clinching bowl eligibility. That is, of course, if North Carolina doesn’t beat Wake Forest Saturday and Boston College loses at SMU.

Both programs are tied at 5-4 overall, 2-3 in the ACC and arguably better than their records show.

The Tar Heels started with three straight wins, lost four straight, then won their past two. The Eagles started unranked, briefly climbed into the AP Poll after victories at then-ranked FSU and against Duquesne, plus are now back in the win column after breaking a 3-game slide against Syracuse.

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Upsets highlight ACC football early kickoff games in Week 6

It’s looking more and more like it’s Clemson vs. Miami for the ACC after Louisville fell to SMU on Saturday.

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It’s looking more and more like a two-team race in the ACC between the Clemson Tigers and Miami Hurricanes.

The 22nd-ranked Louisville Cardinals, the league’s only other ranked team in Week 6, fell at home to the SMU Mustangs, 34-27, Saturday at L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium.

SMU (5-1) started hot and got out to a 24-13 lead at halftime. Louisville came to life in the second half but a critical stop by the Mustangs’ defense on 4th and 1 from the SMU 19-yard line early in the fourth quarter allowed SMU to take over on downs.

The Mustangs then drove 89 yards on 11 plays, highlighted by a 19-yard run by Brashard Smith that included a fumble that was initially awarded to Louisville but which was overturned on video review. Four plays later, LJ Johnson Jr. carried it into the end-zone from a yard out for a 34-27 SMU lead with 6:39 to play.

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Tyler Slough was picked off in the end-zone on fourth down on the Cardinals’ next drive with 2:30 to play. SMU got two first downs to run out the clock for their seventh straight road victory dating back to last year.

Elsewhere in the early slate of ACC action, the NC State Wolfpack fell 34-30 to Wake Forest in Raleigh, giving Dave Doeren’s team three losses to fall to 3-3.

Boston College fell 24-14 in Charlottesville to the Virginia Cavaliers. Bill O’Brien’s Eagles fell to 4-2 while the Hoos improved to 4-1.

Clemson (3-1) takes on the Florida State Seminoles (1-4) at 7 p.m. ET at Doak Campbell Stadium. The game can be seen on ESPN.

RELATED: Staff score predictions for Clemson-Florida State Week 6 matchup

Following Clemson-Florida State, Miami (5-0) faces the California Golden Bears (3-1) beginning at 10:30 p.m. ET in Berkeley on ESPN.

Rookie guard Kyle Hergel to make his Saints regular season debut vs. Falcons

Offensive line injuries have forced the Saints to tap into the depth on their practice squad. Rookie guard Kyle Hergel is set to make his NFL debut:

Sunday’s game with the Atlanta Falcons will mark the regular season debut for Kyle Hergel. Offensive line injuries have forced the New Orleans Saints to tap into the depth on their practice squad — starting center Erik McCoy and right guard Cesar Ruiz are both unavailable, so the team chose Hergel as their lone elevation from the practice squad for Week 4.

While he was the primary backup for Ruiz at right guard throughout training camp, the Saints may choose to bring Hergel in off the bench with a veteran like Landon Young starting instead.

He’s taken a unique path to the NFL. Hergel is Canadian, and he made a couple of different stops in college football before turning pro out of Boston College. That experience proved invaluable in preparing him for the next level, and even if he didn’t make the 53-man roster it’s clear the Saints have a role in mind for him. Let’s see if he can seize this opportunity, however it manifests.

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Michigan State football QB Aidan Chiles addresses media before Ohio State game

Aidan Chiles addressed the media about his recent performance before the Ohio State game

Michigan State football quarterback Aidan Chiles has been under the microscope this week after a three interception performance against Boston College led to a lot of division amongst the fan base.

As one of the leaders and captains of the MSU team, Aidan Chiles addressed the media on Tuesday and took accountability for some throws that he feels came from ‘antsy’ footwork. Chiles also talked about the Boston College defense, the upcoming game against Ohio State, and more. You can watch his full press conference below.

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Michigan State football can’t survive sloppy game on the road against Boston College

Michigan State had plenty of chances, but couldn’t limit the mistakes in a loss on the road to Boston College

This one is going to sting for a while. Michigan State football, despite being a road underdog, felt like they had many, many chances to pull away against Boston College on Saturday night, but they ultimately couldn’t stop shooting themselves in the foot and lost to BC, 23 to 19.

The Spartans had four turnovers on the night, three of which came from quarterback Aidan Chiles, including one in the closing moments of the game that sealed the win for the Eagles. MSU ended up settling for field goals on multiple drives, and while Jonathan Kim was very impressive hitting those, they always say that field goals will cost you on the road, and it did here tonight.

MSU had a chance to go up on the Eagles near the end of the game, but a bobbled pass to Nate Carter led to another Kim field goal. Boston College immediately went down the field and scored a touchdown. MSU actually put a nice drive together, with Jack Velling making multiple nice catches in the middle of the field, but an errant throw from Chiles ended the game.

The Spartans will now have to face two top ten teams in a row, with Ohio State next week and Oregon coming after that.

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Michigan State football vs. Boston College injury report released

Michigan State football will be missing four of their top wide receivers against Boston College

It is expected to be a rainy night in Boston tonight for Michigan State football’s match-up against Boston College, so hopefully this doesn’t impact a game plan too much that should include a lot of rush attempts, but the injury report was released for MSU’s game vs. Boston College on Saturday night, and the Spartans will be missing four of their top receivers.

We were expecting to see Nick Marsh and Jaron Glover out tonight, but it was a surprise to see Antonio Gates Jr. listed as well.

In addition to the four wide receivers, the Spartans will also be missing a key offensive lineman and safety Dillon Tatum. You can see the full report below:

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ESPN College Gameday predicts Michigan State football vs. Boston College winner

ESPN College Gameday has made their pick in the MSU vs. Boston College game

Michigan State football will face another big road test in the Northeast this week when they travel to Boston to take on Boston College. Boston College is favored in this one, although the line has started to shift a little towards MSU as we approach kickoff.

The crew at ESPN College Gameday weighed in on the game and gave their picks, and, well, they all picked Boston College to win this one.

This isn’t the first time MSU has been an underdog on the road this year, as they weren’t projected to beat Maryland this year either.

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Reddit map: USC, Boston College fans consider Notre Dame biggest rival

How do you feel about this?

College football fans are an interesting breed. While some adhere to traditional rivalries involving their teams, there are other teams they just hate more when their team plays them. If only there was a way to track how fans feel about certain rivalries. It turns out there is.

A website called Know Rivalry tracks how fans feel about playing certain teams and what they feel their biggest rivalries are. A college football fan on Reddit decided to place all Football Bowl Subdivision teams on a blank screen geographically and then draw arrows from the teams pointing to what fans believe to be their biggest rival.

Notre Dame fans and USC fans both consider the other team their team’s biggest rival, which isn’t a surprise. But perhaps of the heavy Irish and Catholic connection to their location or university, Boston College fans also consider the Irish to be their top rival:

While the Irish and Trojans play each other every year, the Eagles pop up on the Irish’s schedule only five times between now and 2037. Also, the Irish have won nine straight in the series with the Eagles last emerging victorious in 2008. The teams last met in 2022.

If that’s how Eagles fans feel, fine. Let’s just hope they don’t get as upset if they lose to Syracuse.

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Florida State’s 0-2 start reminiscent of Notre Dame’s start to 2022

The Seminoles are in trouble.

All of a sudden, Notre Dame’s game against Florida State in November looks far less intimidating. No other conclusion can be reached after the Seminoles lost to Boston College, 28-13.

With this loss, the Seminoles have made some dubious recent history. Ranked 10th in the AP Preseason Poll, they’ve become the fourth program in the past 10 years to be ranked in the top 10 and drop their first two games. The most recent team to do that? The 2022 Irish.

We’ll see what happens with the latest poll, but when the 2022 Irish lost to No. 2 Ohio State on the road and then Marshall at home, they dropped out of the rankings entirely and didn’t get back there until November. Even then, they never got higher than 13th.

The Seminoles don’t even have the excuse of dropping to one ranked team to begin the season. One has to think Mike Norvell is on the hot seat now for what’s happened to a team that had College Football Playoff aspirations. The pressure is on now to right the ship.

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