Who doesn’t love a little #MACtion on an October Tuesday night?
For the sixth time in program history Notre Dame will take on a member of the Mid-American Conference, better known as the MAC, on Saturday.
The Irish are 5-0 all-time against current MAC schools and welcome Central Michigan to South Bend for the first time this weekend.
Here is how Notre Dame has fared all-time against the folks that have blessed us all these years with weeknight MACtion as well as which MAC teams show up on Irish schedules in future seasons:
Notre Dame and Indiana haven’t met in football since 1991, a game that featured an all-time touchdown by the Irish that we highlighted earlier this week.
All-time, Notre Dame and Indiana have met 29 times with the Irish holding a 23-5-1 advantage.
Indiana started the series with a 4-3-1 mark against Notre Dame between 1898 and 1907, but the Hoosiers have won just once in 21 meetings since.
The two have only met once since 1950, but here is a quick summary of all 29 times Notre Dame and Indiana have locked horns in football:
This list will soon be shrinking by one…who else would you like to see scratched off it soon?
Notre Dame has a long football history with several rivals they’ve played for years. With over 900 wins to their name you’d think the Fighting Irish have played enough games to face pretty much everyone college football has to offer.
Two teams came off the list in 2021 as Cincinnati and Toledo were both first time opponents of Notre Dame.
Notre Dame’s opponent in the 2022 Fiesta Bowl scratched a name off this list as the Irish took on Oklahoma State in a heartbreaking defeat.
So who are the programs that Notre Dame is yet to take in football and will they ever meet up?
Notre Dame has games scheduled with roughly a handful of the teams you see mentioned below, the now 45 FBS teams Notre Dame has never played:
With the 2022 college football season right around the corner, we took a look at every SEC teams’ schedule this fall.
Previously, we ranked every schedule in the SEC from easiest to hardest, with Georgia having the easiest schedule and Vanderbilt having the hardest. You can read that story here.
Here’s a look at the schedule for every SEC team this season:
Two new opponents added to future schedules with some interesting non-conference matchups already set.
It was revealed today that Alabama football has added two new opponents to future schedules, as reported by The Tuscaloosa News’ Nick Kelly.
The Crimson Tide’s future schedules include big-time programs like Ohio State, Wisconsin, Oklahoma and others. However, today’s announcement included two under-the-radar FCS programs: Eastern Illinois and Tennessee-Martin.
Eastern Illinois will travel to Tuscaloosa late in the 2025 season and will be paid $560,000. Tennessee-Martin is scheduled for early 2028 and will be paid an even $500,000.
Both games are scheduled in seasons that already contain intriguing out-of-conference matchups for Alabama.
In 2025, the Crimson Tide will face Florida State and Wisconsin; and in 2028, Ohio State and Oklahoma State are on the schedule.
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Thursday night was the NFL’s annual schedule release where we found out the weeks and dates of games that we’ve known were going to take place for years. Seriously, I don’t like to yuck another person’s yum but this is one sports tradition that has escaped me.
Except for the social media side of the reveals. Some of them at least.
The Los Angeles Chargers had a truly epic video to announce their 2022 schedule that you should check out if you get a chance. Each time I’ve watched it I’ve caught something new with it and all I can say is whoever helped on that project deserves a significant raise.
Some video releases aren’t as great and when I say that I’m talking about my hometown Chicago Bears. The Bears took to Twitter and announced their schedule by having players draw the logo of their opponent on a football with markers. Former Notre Dame tight end [autotag]Cole Kmet[/autotag] was called upon to draw what appears to be some weird kind of jellyfish. Check it out below.
Listen, I’m no artist myself but if I had to rank the easiest NFL team logos to attempt to draw I’d imagine the Dallas Cowboys would be near the top.
I think my favorite part of this is not that the Cowboys star looks like something different each time I look at it, but instead how happy Kmet is in the picture where he’s proudly displaying his masterpiece.
Don’t worry Cole, the only “A” I ever got in art class was for effort, too.
After finishing with a 7-9 record and NFC East champions, Football Team enters this season with the same dynamic defense from last year, with a few new pieces. In addition, their offense will be led by new quarterback, Ryan Fitzpatrick.
The Bolts, on the other hand, also finished 7-9 in 2020. They will have new head coach Brandon Staley and his staff in charge of a team that features 2020 Offensive Rookie of the Year, Justin Herbert and a roster with some new players and familiar faces.
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Georgia football 2020 opens with the Virginia Cavaliers in Atlanta on September 7th, in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff game.
ATLANTA, Ga.–Palpable excitement is already building in certain circles in Atlanta for the University of Georgia Bulldogs college football season opener. Considered by many to be the world capital of college football, winning more in the nationally prominent games played in downtown Atlanta is of the utmost importance if Kirby Smart’s program is going to be atop the tip of the upper echelon of the old sport, entering its 151st season.
Under Coach Smart, Georgia has fared extremely well at Grant Field in Midtown Atlanta while playing its in-state rival. But after opening 2-0 in big games played in the domes (Georgia Dome, Mercedes-Benz Stadium), UGA has somewhat alarmingly dropped three straight such contests. Each loss came to a powerful SEC West opponent: a national championship overtime defeat to Bama; a near replay of that game featuring the same two programs in an eerily similar SEC championship game; finally, a disheartening blowout at the hands of the current national champions, LSU.
Opening with the ACC’s Virginia Cavaliers in Atlanta could get the big city mojo flowing in the right direction. Georgia is plainly planning a return trip for a fourth straight SEC championship game and well-positioned amongst the favorites to win the SEC title.
The action commences on September 7th, on the holiday weekend Monday. UGA will be playing football on back-to-back weekdays for the first time, after beating Baylor in a midweek Sugar Bowl, on the first day of the new decade. Winning a New Year’s 6 bowl definitely pushed Georgia in a positive direction.
Hoos ahead for Dawgs: The Bulldogs are 1-1 in Chick-fil-A Kickoff games, including 1-1 versus the ACC, with a defeat of North Carolina in Kirby Smart’s head coaching debut in 2016. UGA and UVa met twice in Atlanta for Peach Bowls, which I attended. Virginia won 34-27 in 1995 after a gallant comeback effort by polyglot quarterback Hines Ward came up short in the final seconds, in Ray Goff’s final game as a coach. After that defeat, the all-time series stood at even. Then, Georgia was able to win the next two meetings between the programs, a narrow 35-33 escape in Atlanta in 1998 and a 37-14 blowout in Hawaii for the Jeep Oahu Bowl of 2000, in Jim Donnan’s last game coaching.
Nov 16, 2019; Clemson, SC, USA; Wake Forest Demon Deacons quarterback Jamie Newman (12) drops back to pass the ball against the Clemson Tigers during the second half at Clemson Memorial Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Joshua S. Kelly-USA TODAY Sports
Virginia, who finished ranked 25th in the final Coaches Poll off a competitive defeat by the Florida Gators in the Orange Bowl, of the New Year’s 6, should be familiar with grad transfer quarterback Jamie Newman, a former Wake Forest Demon Deacon.
Kirby Smart is 4-0 in season openers as a head coach.
