Notre Dame 2026

[gonzoron]

Go Irish!

[Komets2727]

How are you a dynasty when you haven’t won a natty since 1991? More I hear of this, the more the Irish remind me of the  Jerry Jones Cowboys, another team living in the past…

Edited December 12, 2025 by Komets2727

[gonzoron]

31 minutes ago, Komets2727 said:

How are you a dynasty when you haven’t won a natty since 1991? More I hear of this, the more the Irish remind me of the  Jerry Jones Cowboys, another team living in the past…

Notre Dame football isn’t a 2 year flash in the pan. They have a long storied history.

[GOLDRUSH1985]

44 minutes ago, Komets2727 said:

How are you a dynasty when you haven’t won a natty since 1991? More I hear of this, the more the Irish remind me of the  Jerry Jones Cowboys, another team living in the past…

1988

Should of been 1993 too , But head to head didn't apply then apparently . 

[23andCounting]

4 hours ago, GOLDRUSH1985 said:

1988

Should of been 1993 too , But head to head didn't apply then apparently . 

For some reason, the comparison to 1993 doesn't make sense to anyone but Notre Dame fans. Notre Dame vs everyone else. Love it. 

[Komets2727]

2 hours ago, 23andCounting said:

For some reason, the comparison to 1993 doesn't make sense to anyone but Notre Dame fans. Notre Dame vs everyone else. Love it. 

Problems is that Notre Dame gets favored treatment again starting next year that nobody else gets. If teams stop scheduling them and they are stuck playing 💩schedules like the past couple years, good luck

Edited December 13, 2025 by Komets2727

[Irishman]

10 hours ago, Komets2727 said:

Problems is that Notre Dame gets favored treatment again starting next year that nobody else gets. If teams stop scheduling them and they are stuck playing 💩schedules like the past couple years, good luck

While they do get favored treatment for next season, every person on that committee, including the ACC and SEC Commissioners agreed to it. That said, way too much is being made of it this early, because it becomes a moot point and will no longer apply when the field is expanded to 16 teams for next season. 

[23andCounting]

10 hours ago, Komets2727 said:

If teams stop scheduling them 

They wont. They're just threats. Notre Dame is too important to the college football world. Look what happened when Georgia came to South Bend. they brought 20-30 thousand fans with them paying well over $1000/per ticket. Everyone wants to play Notre Dame. Except the SEC this post season. ESPN saved the SEC from another potential team that would put them out. I thought it would have been classic to see Michigan, Ohio State, then Notre Dame/Indiana win the title for the third year in a row. All right up here in the good ol' midwest. ESPN and the SEC took care of business to eliminate the Irish. And the injury bug may end up being Indiana's doom. What could have been. 

[gonzoron]

11 hours ago, Komets2727 said:

If teams stop scheduling them and they are stuck playing 💩schedules like the past couple years, good luck

LOL, that's not going to happen. Anyone who believes that is an idiot.

[Footballking16]

6 hours ago, 23andCounting said:

They wont. They're just threats. Notre Dame is too important to the college football world. Look what happened when Georgia came to South Bend. they brought 20-30 thousand fans with them paying well over $1000/per ticket. Everyone wants to play Notre Dame. Except the SEC this post season. ESPN saved the SEC from another potential team that would put them out. I thought it would have been classic to see Michigan, Ohio State, then Notre Dame/Indiana win the title for the third year in a row. All right up here in the good ol' midwest. ESPN and the SEC took care of business to eliminate the Irish. And the injury bug may end up being Indiana's doom. What could have been. 

Lol

Laughable that you think the SEC needs Notre Dame. There’s no less than 6 teams in the SEC more relevant than Notre Dame today.

 

[23andCounting]

47 minutes ago, Footballking16 said:

Lol

Laughable that you think the SEC needs Notre Dame. There’s no less than 6 teams in the SEC more relevant than Notre Dame today.

 

The thirty thousand Georgia fans who dumped over $1000/per ticket and made the trip to South Bend might disagree. Everyone wants to play Notre Dame. Everyone wants to visit the campus. Everyone wants to see the golden helmets take the field. I mean, it's Notre Dame. Nothing more to be said.

Everything you say points to your hatred. It's obvious. Now I'll ask you. What did Notre Dame do to you to have all this animosity toward them?

[Footballking16]

4 minutes ago, 23andCounting said:

The thirty thousand Georgia fans who dumped over $1000/per ticket and made the trip to South Bend might disagree. Everyone wants to play Notre Dame. Everyone wants to visit the campus. Everyone wants to see the golden helmets take the field. I mean, it's Notre Dame. Nothing more to be said.

Everything you say points to your hatred. It's obvious. Now I'll ask you. What did Notre Dame do to you to have all this animosity toward them?

Ya everybody but the committee and the $7 billion dollars ESPN paid for the media rights. Nobody cares about Notre Dame. They are a has been program who hasn’t won shit in 40 years. I’m sorry facts hurt your feelings.

[23andCounting]

7 minutes ago, Footballking16 said:

Ya everybody but the committee and the $7 billion dollars ESPN paid for the media rights. Nobody cares about Notre Dame. They are a has been program who hasn’t won shit in 40 years. I’m sorry facts hurt your feelings.

Wow, you're really mad. Watch a Christmas movie. 

[Irishman]

Shall we count the number of posts made about Notre Dame made by the people who dislike them, os say people don’t care about them? Have to admit you are getting a bit carried away with this. Relevance is both positive and negative, and Notre Dame is getting a shit ton more attention on this forum than any other program. That equates to relevance. 

[23andCounting]

19 minutes ago, Irishman said:

Notre Dame is getting a shit ton more attention on this forum than any other program. That equates to relevance. 

That's the part I don't understand. They make national headlines on the regular. They utterly live inside the heads of some of our posters...........yet they are somehow irrelevant. I'm starting to believe relevance is just a term used to real in the fish and stir the pot. 

Wait, I could keep going:

Top three team in the country according to Brooks Austin.

"Should be playing in the playoff" according to Nick Saban. 

Played in the title game last year after beating Georgia and Penn State

Doesn't sound like an irrelevant program. I dunno, maybe it's just me.

[Bash Riprock]

1 hour ago, Irishman said:

Shall we count the number of posts made about Notre Dame made by the people who dislike them, os say people don’t care about them? Have to admit you are getting a bit carried away with this. Relevance is both positive and negative, and Notre Dame is getting a shit ton more attention on this forum than any other program. That equates to relevance. 

It’s a forum in Indiana and there is controversy. Probably not the same attention on a forum in Alabama, Florida, Utah, Cali, Carolina’s, Texas, etc?? 

[Irishman]

5 minutes ago, Bash Riprock said:

It’s a forum in Indiana and there is controversy. Probably not the same attention on a forum in Alabama, Florida, Utah, Cali, Carolina’s, Texas, etc?? 

While it was more of a tongue in cheek comment on my part, they still have a lot of sports talk shows and podcasters across the country talking about them. 

[GOLDRUSH1985]

19 hours ago, Komets2727 said:

Problems is that Notre Dame gets favored treatment again starting next year that nobody else gets. If teams stop scheduling them and they are stuck playing 💩schedules like the past couple years, good luck

Teams won't stop scheduling ND . It's a fact that ND puts people in the stands , kind of like When Penn plays a South Bend school in South Bend . 

[PDB26]

On 12/3/2025 at 1:11 PM, Footballking16 said:

I don't care enough one way or the other. Just find it hilarious when ND and their fans try and take the high road on joining a conference and then act like they have no clue why they are left out of things like this when they are.

1 hour ago, Irishman said:

Shall we count the number of posts made about Notre Dame made by the people who dislike them, os say people don’t care about them? Have to admit you are getting a bit carried away with this. Relevance is both positive and negative, and Notre Dame is getting a shit ton more attention on this forum than any other program. That equates to relevance. 

 

[Bash Riprock]

23 minutes ago, Irishman said:

While it was more of a tongue in cheek comment on my part, they still have a lot of sports talk shows and podcasters across the country talking about them. 

Because of the current controversy. During regular season, especially winning non significant games….not as much. Declining TV ratings are an important metric. That’s why they have to get some bigger games. 

Remember, not a hater, but kinda get it…

 

[Irishman]

4 minutes ago, Bash Riprock said:

Because of the current controversy. During regular season, especially winning non significant games….not as much. Declining TV ratings are an important metric. That’s why they have to get some bigger games. 

I agree with that, and think upcoming schedules are tougher. I also have issues with how NBC seems to be treating them lately. Putting home games on the Peacock app did not help ratings at all. 

[Muda69]

On 12/12/2025 at 2:05 PM, Komets2727 said:

How are you a dynasty when you haven’t won a natty since 1991?

Isn't a "natty" some brand of beer?  And why would Notre Dame want to win some cheap swill?

 

[Bash Riprock]

On 12/12/2025 at 2:34 PM, gonzoron said:

Notre Dame football isn’t a 2 year flash in the pan. They have a long storied history.

Well...if Wikipedia is accurate, both programs started in 1887, so both are 138 years old.  

Now if your reference of a long storied history is winning only, the Irish absolutely get the nod.  Just saying both have been around a long time.

[gonzoron]

14 minutes ago, Bash Riprock said:

Well...if Wikipedia is accurate, both programs started in 1887, so both are 138 years old.  

Now if your reference of a long storied history is winning only, the Irish absolutely get the nod.  Just saying both have been around a long time.

Very confusing. This is a Notre Dame thread. What "programs" are you referring to since Notre Dame is the only team I mentioned?

[Bash Riprock]

20 minutes ago, gonzoron said:

Very confusing. This is a Notre Dame thread. What "programs" are you referring to since Notre Dame is the only team I mentioned?

Your "two year flash in the pan" was a comparison to another school, correct?  Or you just chose to select a 2 year time "out of the air"?  If the latter, sorry about your confusion.