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Welcome back to the One Foot Down recruiting Big Board for Fighting Irish football. Many prospects have come off the board recently as recruiting season has heated up around the country, so we're switching to doing sides of the ball instead of position groups. Link To Original Article

In this Oct. 3, 2015, file photo, Notre Dame quarterback DeShone Kizer, right, scrambles out of the pocket while pressured by Clemson's Shaq Lawson during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Clemson, S.C. The College Football Playoff committee will release its first rankings of...

In the case of Notre Dame's Special Teams unit against Temple, things were relatively boring. Both teams made all their field goals and extra points. Link To Original Article

Since 2002, the Irish and Panthers have met 10 times with those games being decided by 8, 6, 3, 21, 3, 5, 6, 3, 3, and 7 points. The only outlier in that group was Charlie Weis' first game with Notre Dame when the new-look offense completely overwhelmed a shocked Pitt defense. Link To Original...

Handling 1-7 SMU looks like a cakewalk for the No. 23 Owls on Friday night, but they probably won't be nearly as up for this American Athletic Conference tilt as they were last Saturday night for their showdown with Notre Dame. Link To Original Article

Coach Mike Brey wants the 6-foot-1 guard from nearby Mishawaka to be a playmaker, the top defender, hit clutch shots and fill the leadership void left by the graduations of Pat Connaughton and Jerian Grant. Link To Original Article

It is true that Everett Golson might not start Florida State's huge game this Saturday at Clemson. The Seminoles and head coach Jimbo Fisher are keeping their cards close to the vest, as they should. Link To Original Article

Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw ignores the two blue-and-gold banners that list the school's seven Final Four appearances when she looks to the rafters before each game. She looks at the white banner celebrating the 2001 national championship. Link To Original Article

Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw ignores the two blue-and-gold banners that list the school's seven Final Four appearances when she looks to the rafters before each game. She looks at the white banner celebrating the 2001 national championship. Link To Original Article

Since it's late and y'all are always happy with a heaping helping of lame post-victory puns, i'll give you what you want. Here goes: In honor of the College Football Playoff Committee, this week features some surprises with certain lesser-known members of the Commentariat who were deemed by the...

For the second time in 4 weeks Notre Dame running back C.J. Prosise was shut down while carrying the ball. After the final whistle he finished the game against Temple with only 25 yards on 14 carries. Link To Original Article

Photos by Associated Press Will Fuller and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish are just outside of a playoff position, sitting in the fifth spot in the first CFP rankings. Link To Original Article

Notre Dame freshman point guard Ali Patberg will miss the season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee. Patberg was injured during practice Monday and the severity was diagnosed during an MRI on Tuesday. Link To Original Article

No, he's not on the soccer team. Or the hockey team. But he's sort of in charge of them - all of them! - Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports The Fighting Irish earned wins this past week in women's soccer, men's soccer, hockey, cross country, and men's basketball. Link To Original Article

Pat Narduzzi's players didn't have much to do during the weekend. Aside from a standard injury check Friday, the last few days were theirs to do with what they wished after their coach gave Pittsburgh's players little instruction but to enjoy themselves. Link To Original Article

The Irish are back in action, and there's other interesting options around the country in week nine's college football slate. Hopefully some underdogs can give top teams a scare this Halloween. Link To Original Article

Louisville's basketball program is embroiled in a scandal that includes prostitutes, strippers and possible NCAA violations, so the school decided not to send head coach Rick Pitino to ACC media day Wednesday. The school did, however, send two players, and while forward Damion Lee and guard Trey...

The Big Board is empty at two positions - quarterback and tight end, where the Irish are set with Ian Book and nobody, respectively. Nothing new to report. Link To Original Article

The heft of the following day's Inquirer - as big and bulky as a medieval Bible - symbolized how newsy Saturday Oct. 29, 1960, had been. On a day reporters described as "rainy, raw and bleak", President Eisenhower delivered a major address at the Bellevue-Stratford hotel, citing both the...

I've gained clearance from Jim Miesle who has agreed that the time has passed for too much early hype in the Heisman race. We're well into the thick of conference play and a collection of the nation's best playmakers has emerged for the award Manti Te'o finished 2nd for back in 2012. Link To...