Tag: Week Zero

College Football Power Rankings: Notre Dame climbs, USC falls after Week 0

Though there weren’t many games of consequence in week zero, USC slid and Notre Dame moved up a few spots in this week’s updated College Football power rankings.

Week 0 didn’t provide much high-profile action, but two of our top 15 teams took the field.

The USC Trojans hosted San Jose State in a sparsely-filled Los Angeles Coliseum, and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish took on Navy in Dublin.

Though Week 0 may not be the strongest indicator of how a season is going to go for a team, it reinforced some of our preexisting thoughts on these two prominent programs.

Sam Hartman was a fantastic addition by the Irish. USC’s defense is still a problem.

Though the rest of our top 25 didn’t give us anything to work with, we’re going to update our preseason power rankings based on what we saw out of USC and Notre Dame.

5 reasons why Alabama gets the win over Utah State

5 reasons why the Crimson Tide won’t have much trouble taking down Utah State

The Alabama Crimson Tide head into the 2022 college football season with only one goal on their mind, a national title. The first step to achieving this goal is to take care of the Utah State Aggies who come to Tuscaloosa this weekend for a showdown in Bryant-Denny Stadium.

Alabama currently enters the game as a 41.5-point favorite over Utah State per Tipico Sports, suggesting the Tide should have their way. However, don’t expect Alabama to be caught sleeping walking to start the season, Nick Saban has been preparing for the Utah State Aggies as if they were the 2007 New England Patriots.

So here are five reasons why the Tide should walk away victorious:

What we learned from college football’s Week Zero

The long wait for the 2022 college football season finally ended on Saturday.

The long wait for the 2022 college football season finally ended on Saturday. Fans were treated to a small slew of games to kick off the new year.

Nebraska and Northwestern traveled to Dublin, Ireland to play a rare international conference game. Despite playing the game in a different country, similar struggles continued for Scott Frost and the Cornhuskers.

The new-look Nebraska squad squandered a double-digit second-half lead to drop the game 31-28. The loss makes 12 straight single-digit losses for Nebraska dating back to last season.

Elsewhere in the Big Ten, Illinois began its season with a comfortable 38-6 victory over a solid Wyoming squad. Bret Bielema hopes to see improvement in his second year with the program.

Vanderbilt took a long trip across the country to take on Hawaii on the road. The Commodores were all business on their island trip, taking down Hawaii in a 63-10 blowout.

Here are three things we learned from college football’s week zero action.

College Football Morning Announcements: June 2, 2020

One of the best WRs in college football will miss 2020. What does it mean for his teams title hopes? And Notre Dame/Navy reschedule opener.

Happy Tuesday to each and all of you.  If you’re looking to escape the craziness of the world we live in for a few minutes then check out my podcast, the “College Football Morning Announcements”.

I don’t get an episode out quite every day (yet) but am looking to grow it in the not-so-distant future.

Today’s episode is short with two main topics:

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Notre Dame/Navy: Dublin Game Moved to Annapolis

Notre Dame and Navy will meet for the first time ever on Navy’s campus this Labor Day weekend.

As has been expected for quite some time, Notre Dame’s season opener against Navy has been moved and rescheduled.  No longer will the teams open up in Dublin, Ireland, instead they’ll play at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on Labor Day weekend in a national broadcast on either ABC or ESPN.

The moving of the game is because of the worldwide Coronavirus that will keep attendance at college football games down significantly this fall.

The Navy release also adds that both programs will work with event organizers to plan a return trip to Ireland in the future and that information about ticket refunds will be forthcoming.

This will be the 94th consecutive meeting between Notre Dame and Navy, the longest-continuous-sectional-rivalry in college football.  Never in the 93 times previous has Notre Dame ever played at Navy’s home stadium in Annapolis.

Notre Dame leads the all-time series against Navy 79-13-1 and has won eight of the last nine contests against the Midshipmen after dropping three of four in the series from 2007 to 2010.

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100 Days Until Notre Dame Football (We Hope)

The countdown to Notre Dame football returning is on. Join us as we celebrating being within 100 days of Irish football returning! (we hope)

The countdown is on!

100 days from now (we hope) Notre Dame will return to the football field for Season 133 when the Irish take on Navy in a Week Zero affair.  Will the game be played as scheduled?  I’m guessing not in Ireland but perhaps with the way the news has gone this week we’ll see it get underway on time.

Each day from now until Notre Dame kicks off the year we’ll count down the days with the number and why it’s significant in the history of Notre Dame football.

Now we could take the easy route and start with perhaps the most-known 100 in Notre Dame football, that being Lou Holtz’s career win total as the Irish head coach.  Instead, we’ll go a little more obscure but still plenty impressive with our first entry.

100:  Michael Floyd’s total receptions during the 2011 season, the most ever by a Notre Dame player in a single season.  

Golden Tate’s 93 receptions in his Biletnikoff Award winning season of 2009 are the second most while Floyd’s 79 in 2010 and Jeff Samardzija’s 78 and 77 receptions in 2006 and 2005 round out Notre Dame’s single-season top-five.

100 days to go!!!

We really, really hope.