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Notre Dame Football: Ogundeji Returns for Fifth Year as Expected

Ogundeji joins Daelin Hayes, Isaiah Foskey, Ovie Oghoufo, and Justin Ademilola in a strong defensive end grouping that should be a strength for the 2020 Fighting Irish.

It wasn’t shocking news to say the very least but it was news nonetheless on Wednesday when Notre Dame defensive end Adetokunbo Ogundeji announced he will be returning to Notre Dame for a fifth season.

Ogundeji came on late for Notre Dame this year, recording 4.5 sacks on the year and all of them coming in the final three games of the year.  Two of those alone came against Boston College in what was to me the best game we’ve seen him play.

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Ogundeji joins Daelin Hayes, Isaiah Foskey, Ovie Oghoufo, and Justin Ademilola in a strong defensive end grouping that should be a strength for the 2020 Fighting Irish.

We’ve got official word from Ian Book, Alohi Gilman, Tony Jones, Jr. and now Ogundeji.  We still await Cole Kmet’s official decision after he statedhe planned on returning for his senior year during the fall.

Listen: Camping World Bowl Preview CFN Podcast

I bring up why the game scares me as a Notre Dame fan while Pete gives reason to why the Irish should roll.

As some of you are aware I do a weekly college football podcast with Pete Fiutak of College Football News.

Throughout the year we preview the biggest games, try to project the College Football Playoff and discuss the biggest stories of the week.

We are currently going through and previewing as many bowl games as possible.  Some of the smaller ones get piled into previews for the entire day while other games get their entire own 10 minute or so preview.

We decided that although it’s “just the Camping World Bowl” that’d we’d talk a little about the match-up between 10-2 Notre Dame and 7-5 Iowa State.

I bring up why the game scares me as a Notre Dame fan while Pete gives reason to why the Irish should roll.

We also discuss the change at offensive coordinator as Pete talks me down from being a bit upset over what seems to be an incredibly unthorough search for a replacement.

https://anchor.fm/cfnpodcast/embed/episodes/CFN-Podcast-Ep-43—Camping-World-Bowl-Preview-e9fqne

Take a listen and if you like what you hear, subscribe on Apple Podcasts and share along with a friend if you like what you hear!

Notre Dame/Stanford: David Shaw Throws A Book of Praise

I’ll be the first to say that Book gets criticized a ton for not being as great as some of the Heisman or national championship contending guys and his performance against Michigan was inexcusable.

However, the young man is still one of the better ones you’ll find in all of college football

Stanford head football coach David Shaw was once widely regarded as among the best in the country and potentially destined for the NFL.

You don’t hear that as much the last two years as Stanford fell from the top-ten to a 9-4 squad last season before regressing to a 4-7 team this year as they enter their final game of 2019.

When meeting the media like he does every Tuesday during the season, Shaw was asked about his next opponent, No. 16 Notre Dame.

As most coaches normally do, he gave a lot of praise to this week’s foe, but saved the most compliments for the Fighting Irish quarterback.

A quarterback that just makes plays, with his legs. I told the team yesterday, I don’t know that there’s many quarterbacks in the country that about half the season he’s led them in passing and rushing. It’s not that there are a whole bunch of designed quarterback runs, it’s just the kid’s got a great feel for football. He pushes up in the pocket and can escape, can buy time with his legs, it’s hard to get your arms around and wrap him up and bring him down. – David Shaw on Ian Book

I’ll be the first to say that Book gets criticized a ton for not being as great as some of the Heisman or national championship contending guys and his performance against Michigan was inexcusable.

However, the young man is still one of the better ones you’ll find in all of college football and with what has gone on at Stanford this year, you can bet Shaw would love to have the stability of Book at his quarterback spot.

Book’s first home-start in 2018 came against then-seventh ranked Stanford last September.

Book shined bright under the lights throwing for 278 yards and four touchdowns while rushing for 47 more yards.

Here’s to hoping he does the same to Stanford on what looks like it’ll be a very sloppy track in Palo Alto.

Paul Finebaum gives his top-six following Week 13

Paul Finebaum released his new top-six after Week 13. Where is Georgia football?

Following a Week 13 that saw Georgia’s offense struggle in a win over Texas A&M, the SEC Network’s Paul Finebaum released his new top-six teams as we creep closer to the College Football Playoff.

This weekend, the CFP’s top five teams all took care of business, but No. 6 Oregon’s CFP dreams came to an end with a loss to Arizona State.

1) LSU beat Arkansas by almost 40 points, but the Tigers defense managed to allow 20 to Arkansas, which has the nation’s 106th ranked offense.

2) Ohio State looked good again in a win over top-ten Penn State, but Justin Fields did fumble three times.

3) Clemson took a bye week ahead of its game vs South Carolina next weekend.

4) Georgia, No. 4, looked like, well, Georgia. The defense played great as it usually does, but the offense continued to show its inability to find the end zone yet again. The thing is, we can’t blame offensive coordinator James Coley for this one. Jake Fromm missed two, maybe three touchdown passes vs the Aggies. Coley called a game that should have yielded 30+ points. They just need to execute better.

5) Alabama looked fine in a big win over Western Carolina.

6) Oregon went down to Arizona State 31-28.

Finebaum, who said that he thinks Georgia can still win it all, left the Bulldogs in his top-four and seems pretty high on the Dawgs and their style of play.

Utah found its way into the top-six thanks to the Oregon loss.

Here is his new top-six.

Kirk Herbstreit ranks college football’s top-four teams

Where is Georgia football in Kirk Herbstreit’s top-four teams.

Kirk Herbstreit ranked college football’s top-four teams on Sunday morning, following an action-packed Saturday in the top-ten.

His rankings actually stayed the exact same, though, seeing as how none of the drama happened at the top, leaving Georgia football at No. 4 after the Dawgs beat Auburn.

I see nothing wrong with that. There was not really a scenario for Georgia to move up and it definitely did not deserve to move down either. No. 4 is a great spot for UGA.

As for Alabama staying at No. 5, I agree with that one, too. I’d leave the Tide where they are until they prove that the Tua Tagovailoa loss is going to hurt as much as we expect it to.

Here is Herbstreit’s top-four and next two in.

 

Where’s Georgia football in Paul Finebaum’s new top-six?

Where did Paul Finebaum rank Georgia football after beating Auburn. What about Alabama?

Following Saturday’s action, the SEC Network’s Paul Finebaum revealed his top new top-six teams in college football.

Last week, Finebaum had Georgia at No. 5 after beating Missouri, while Alabama was sitting one spot ahead at No. 4.

On Sunday, however, taking into consideration Georgia’s road win over Auburn and the loss of Tua Tagovailoa at Alabama, Finebaum moved the Bulldogs to No. 4 and dropped Alabama to No. 6.

Minnesota also dropped out after losing to Iowa and was replaced by Oregon.

 

10 Things We Love About College Football – Week 12 Edition

Oklahoma seems to desperately need one of Oregon or Utah to lose before the Pac-12 Championship and then to win that conference title game if they’re going to have much of a chance at one of the four playoff spots.

No matter if your team won or lost on Saturday, it was another fall afternoon that further-proved why college football is undefeated as a whole.  It has flaws like anything else but the most exciting regular season in all of sports lived up to the hype yet again with crazy performances, incredible comebacks and all-time showings of sportsmanship alike.

Come with us at Fighting Irish Wire as we take you through the ten things we loved about college football this weekend.

10.  Monon Bell Classic was a…classic

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