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Marcus Freeman and the Notre Dame staff never waste time compiling an impressive recruiting class. Entering July with 21 commitments, the Fighting Irish bolstered their class with another big-time pledge on Friday. Winston Salem (N.C.) Mount Tabor four-star safety JaDon Blair made the call in favor of the Irish, choosing them over the likes of Penn State, Michigan and Florida State. The addition of Blair, a top-100 prospect in the 2025 On300, bumps Notre Dame up one spot to No. 6 in the On3 Industry Team Recruiting Rankings. “Really just that life after football aspect love shown through the p...
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Winston Salem (NC) Mount Tabor On300 safety JaDon Blair announced his commitment to Marcus Freeman and Notre Dame on Friday, choosing the Irish over Michigan and Penn State among many others. The 6-foot-4.5, 195-pound Blair becomes commit No. 22 for the Irish in the 2025 recruiting class. “Really just that life after football aspect love shown through the process,” Blair said. “There wasn’t a dull moment, at least every day hearing from one of them. Chad (Bowden), Coach Al Golden, Coach (Mike) Mickens, Coach Freeman. I was hearing from someone every day and that was huge in me loving Notre Dam...
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Notre Dame enters the expanded playoff era as one of the only teams focusing solely on record since they can’t earn an automatic berth as an independent. Still, according to Greg McElroy, they should be just fine as far as resumé based on how many wins he’s projecting for them in 2024. McElroy assessed the Fighting Irish’s ceiling and floor on a recent episode of ‘Always College Football’. He paid them a pretty good compliment to start with, marking Notre Dame as one of this season’s favorites, even though their ceilings may not be as close as the floors are to him. “Notre Dame’s floor is as h...
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Riley Leonard made a big jump this offseason, leaving Duke and transferring to Notre Dame, where he’s in line to be the starting quarterback. And so far, Leonard has noticed so differences between the two places. Speaking at the Manning Passing Academy recently, Leonard dished on the differences. The biggest ones manifest mostly from the fervent following that Notre Dame football has. “Obviously there’s a lot of social media attention that comes with it. I don’t really go on social media, so I’m not sure on that scale,” Leonard said. While it was evident he didn’t want to disparage the Duke fa...
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Quarterback Riley Leonard transferred from Duke to Notre Dame for the 2024 season. Unfortunately, injuries followed him from his time at Duke and have been an issue that he’s battling to get ready for the year. While attending the Manning Passing Academy, Leonard shared that he’s feeling good after those injury issues and that he’ll have no limitations going into next season when he’s expected to be the starter for the Irish. “Healthy, healthy, healthy,” Riley Leonard said. “I can’t stress that enough. I’m very healthy. If you were walking around in my body, you wouldn’t even know you had any ...
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Notre Dame is going to have a new-look offense in 2024 that will be led by Riley Leonard at quarterback and Mike Denbrock at offensive coordinator. Leonard was one of the quarterbacks who attended the Manning Passing Academy. While there, he spoke with the media to share that he’s been watching film on former LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels all day long to prepare for next season. “I think the proof is in the pudding with Jayden Daniels,” Riley Leonard said. “Obviously, he’s probably a little bit faster than me but — probably a lot of bit faster than me — but I can still make those reads, make ...
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The college football season grows closer by the day, which means it’s prediction season for college football magazine mogul Phil Steele. He’s always an authority on the sport, especially when it comes to his preseason predictions. As is typically the case, for the 2024 issue, Steele extensively broke down his preseason rankings of each position group among Division I teams. So below, you can see Phil Steele’s full ranking of the top-25 receiving units across the sport. Take a look: 1. OregonSteele notes that returning an 1,100-yard receiver in Tez Johnson gives the Ducks star power. But it’s t...
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Analyst Greg McElroy has shared his list of under the radar Week 14 games that fans can be on the lookout for that have College Football Playoff Implications. As he explained on Always College Football, McElroy wanted to focus on games that the average fan may not be thinking about heading into the season. That comes in a week where the marquee matchups are likely to overshadow plenty of other games. “Rivalry Week, Greg McElroy said. “We all know the big headliners in this one. We know Iron Bowl, we know Texas–Texas A&M, we know Ohio State and Michigan. We know all the big headline games in Ri...
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New Notre Dame quarterback and Duke transfer Riley Leonard may be one of the stars on the South Bend campus, but he says the transition to ND wasn’t completely seamless. “Yeah, it was good. You know, it’s tough,” he commented on the move to Notre Dame after several years with the Blue Devils. Sure, Leonard’s the QB at Notre Dame, a pretty prestigious gig, but even he says that acclimating to a brand new school had its challenges. “We’re kids just like everybody else, like, I’m a kid at a new school that didn’t know anybody. Okay, like, we’re quarterbacks and it’s cool or whatever, but we got t...
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After Tommy Rees left for Alabama last year, Marcus Freeman promoted tight ends coach Gerad Parker to offensive coordinator at Notre Dame. But he left to become the next head coach at Troy, leading the Fighting Irish to swing big and bring Mike Denbrock back to South Bend. Denbrock spent the last two years at LSU, where he helped develop Jayden Daniels into a Heisman Trophy winner and the No. 2 overall pick in the NFL Draft. Now, he’s heading to Notre Dame, where he’ll work with dual-threat quarterback Riley Leonard. Leonard spent the last three years at Duke, but transferred following the dep...
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