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Let's take a journey inside the exhilarated but anxious mind of a Notre Dame football fan right now. What happened Saturday in South Bend was pleasant but also a little melancholy. The Fighting Irish thumped Wake Forest 38-0, improving their record to a stunning 11-0 before their regular-season finale next weekend against rival USC. Notre Dame was good but looked to be in a jam. Despite the win, they appeared destined to stay locked at No. 3 in the BCS standings, behind shiny Oregon and Kansas State, where they'd wind up getting locked out of the national championship.
It was a thrilling, surprising Irish run. But also a tiny bit of a bummer, you know? Time was running out. The most storied college program in the sport had a real shot at going undefeated, only to...
Outside, amid the swaying and chanting of thousands of fans in soggy blue ponchos, shock pelted the Rose Bowl like the cold rain. Inside, in an equally stunning turn of events, Lane Kiffin was safe and warm. In answering a... more »
He's doing it again. Lane Kiffin, I mean. He's acting like Lane Kiffin, when he promised a few months ago that he was done doing that -- and ready to act like an adult. But, no. He's the same Lane Kiffin he was at Tennessee,... more »
WACO, Texas – It took the nation's worst defense to play its best. It took an Oregon transfer shining on a night Oregon could have used him. It took a huge chunk out of the Heisman leader's candidacy. It took a central... more »
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — OK, God, this is only going to add to the certainty of Notre Dame fans that you have conferred most favored university status on their school. First, the undefeated Fighting Irish require less than a half... more »
All right, as this college football season winds to a close, since it appears that we are all going to have to live with awakened echoes and shaken thunder again, and since it appears that all the people who had kept the blue... more »
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