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I like our chances at ND. They run the zone read and Our Defensive staff knows how to slow it down....if our offense can touch the endzone 3 times, plus a fg... I think we win..wishful thinking i know..But it's very very possible
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I've been drinking the kool aid last 5 yrs. Going the Debbie Downer route thid season. Heart hurts less and perhaps be pleasantly surprised.
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My hope for an upset is they have poor QB play. Malik Zaire was the 5th rated option QB when he came out. However, he's only thrown 35 passes on the college level. My hope is CS and VB can take advantage of that fact.
He did play a good game against LSU in their bowl game. Although it was reported that Chavis didn't put much work into the bowl game. He was working on his future aggie contract.
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He did play a good game against LSU in their bowl game. Although it was reported that Chavis didn't put much work into the bowl game. He was working on his future aggie contract.
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Another thing we have in our favor is the fact that we changed offensive schemes to a HUNH spread concept..ND has no film to review of our new play calling..If we can have a strong offensive performance in the 1st half and play steady defense the entire game. We definitely have a chance
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Rumors on the ND boards that Jarron Jones might be out for the year. That would be a big loss.
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That would be great television to watch how ND deals with an upset loss to Texas.
The first episode is scheduled to air Sept. 8, according to Showtime Sports. Thirty-minute episodes will air weekly at 9 p.m. Central time.
Notre Dame gets 'Hard Knocks'-style series on Showtime
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-notre-dame-football-showtime-20150811-story.html
The first episode is scheduled to air Sept. 8, according to Showtime Sports. Thirty-minute episodes will air weekly at 9 p.m. Central time.
Notre Dame gets 'Hard Knocks'-style series on Showtime
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-notre-dame-football-showtime-20150811-story.html
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UCLA's Josh Rosen leads 15 freshmen who could contribute immediately
Malik Jefferson, LB, Texas
True freshman
How important was Jefferson to the Longhorns’ 2015 recruiting class? Coach Charlie Strong likened the addition to Florida’s signing of Tim Tebow in ’06. Jefferson, whom Rivals.com rated the top outside linebacker in the country, enrolled early and turned heads during spring workouts. He is a modern defensive coordinator’s dream: a player who possesses both the speed to track down receivers in space and the strength to deliver punishing blows. According to The Dallas Morning News, Jefferson has put on almost 30 pounds of muscle since joining the Longhorns. Texas will need him to be ready right away, as it opens the season on Sept. 5 at Notre Dame, SI’s No. 4 team in the country.
http://www.si.com/college-football/2015/08/13/top-freshmen-college-football-2015-josh-rosen-byron-cowart?page=2&devicetype=default
Malik Jefferson, LB, Texas
True freshman
How important was Jefferson to the Longhorns’ 2015 recruiting class? Coach Charlie Strong likened the addition to Florida’s signing of Tim Tebow in ’06. Jefferson, whom Rivals.com rated the top outside linebacker in the country, enrolled early and turned heads during spring workouts. He is a modern defensive coordinator’s dream: a player who possesses both the speed to track down receivers in space and the strength to deliver punishing blows. According to The Dallas Morning News, Jefferson has put on almost 30 pounds of muscle since joining the Longhorns. Texas will need him to be ready right away, as it opens the season on Sept. 5 at Notre Dame, SI’s No. 4 team in the country.
http://www.si.com/college-football/2015/08/13/top-freshmen-college-football-2015-josh-rosen-byron-cowart?page=2&devicetype=default
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Jarron Jones is out for the season. MCL. Surgery next week.
Probable replacement is a freshman, but a big one.
Probable replacement is a freshman, but a big one.
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Notre Dame DT Jarron Jones (torn MCL) out for season: 3 things to know
Notre Dame has suffered a major loss before the season has even started.
Multiple reports began surfacing Friday that redshirt junior defensive lineman Jarron Jones had suffered a serious knee injury, and on Saturday coach Brian Kelly confirmed the news.
Jones has suffered a torn MCL and will miss the entire 2015 season. He'll have surgery to repair the tear next week.
In his 11 games last season, Jones was a force on the defensive line, finishing with 40 tackles, including 7.5 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks. He also forced a fumble and blocked two kicks.
Here are three things to know about this latest development for the Irish.
1. Jones was expected to be a big part of Notre Dame's defense in 2015: Jones started 11 games for Notre Dame in 2014 and was one of 10 returning starters from last year's team. Those players, as well as the return of cornerback Kei'Varae Russell (suspended for the entire 2014 season), are big reasons Notre Dame heads into the 2015 season with high expectations, as it's currently ranked No. 11 in the preseason Coaches Poll and No. 10 in the CBS Sports 128.
2. This is not the first time Jones has been injured: Jones played in 11 of Notre Dame's 13 games last season, missing the final few contests after suffering a Lisfranc injury in his foot during Notre Dame's 31-28 loss to Louisville on Nov. 22. The Irish went 1-1 without Jones, losing to USC and beating LSU in the Music City Bowl, but the defense allowed 490 yards rushing in those two games. There's no doubt that not having Jones in the middle of the defensive line had an impact there.
3. Jones' likely replacements don't have a lot of experience: Kelly said Jones will be replaced by true freshman Jerry Tillery and sophomore Daniel Cage. Tillery is a four-star lineman from Louisiana that just enrolled at Notre Dame in the spring and is yet to play a single down in a college game. Cage did play in 11 games for the Irish last season, but he finished the year with only 11 tackles. Both will take on roles they weren't supposed to have in 2015, but if there's any good news it's that with so much experience elsewhere on defense, neither will be asked to carry the entire load alone.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/25270775/reports-notre-dame-dl-jarron-jones-has-significant-knee-injury
Notre Dame has suffered a major loss before the season has even started.
Multiple reports began surfacing Friday that redshirt junior defensive lineman Jarron Jones had suffered a serious knee injury, and on Saturday coach Brian Kelly confirmed the news.
Jones has suffered a torn MCL and will miss the entire 2015 season. He'll have surgery to repair the tear next week.
In his 11 games last season, Jones was a force on the defensive line, finishing with 40 tackles, including 7.5 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks. He also forced a fumble and blocked two kicks.
Here are three things to know about this latest development for the Irish.
1. Jones was expected to be a big part of Notre Dame's defense in 2015: Jones started 11 games for Notre Dame in 2014 and was one of 10 returning starters from last year's team. Those players, as well as the return of cornerback Kei'Varae Russell (suspended for the entire 2014 season), are big reasons Notre Dame heads into the 2015 season with high expectations, as it's currently ranked No. 11 in the preseason Coaches Poll and No. 10 in the CBS Sports 128.
2. This is not the first time Jones has been injured: Jones played in 11 of Notre Dame's 13 games last season, missing the final few contests after suffering a Lisfranc injury in his foot during Notre Dame's 31-28 loss to Louisville on Nov. 22. The Irish went 1-1 without Jones, losing to USC and beating LSU in the Music City Bowl, but the defense allowed 490 yards rushing in those two games. There's no doubt that not having Jones in the middle of the defensive line had an impact there.
3. Jones' likely replacements don't have a lot of experience: Kelly said Jones will be replaced by true freshman Jerry Tillery and sophomore Daniel Cage. Tillery is a four-star lineman from Louisiana that just enrolled at Notre Dame in the spring and is yet to play a single down in a college game. Cage did play in 11 games for the Irish last season, but he finished the year with only 11 tackles. Both will take on roles they weren't supposed to have in 2015, but if there's any good news it's that with so much experience elsewhere on defense, neither will be asked to carry the entire load alone.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/25270775/reports-notre-dame-dl-jarron-jones-has-significant-knee-injury
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Wickline and the OL's job just got easier. Hate to hear about an injury, but for the OL's sake the absence of Jones is huge.
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Hopefully they're overrated and were underrated. I was thinking it was a disadvantage for Texas to play ND for the first game of the year since were so inexperienced. Since we have a new offense and so many freshman playing, hopefully we can surprise them.
Notre Dame has high expectations and a lot to prove
The power of Notre Dame never ceases to intoxicate, please, annoy and amaze.
Confession: we media-types are all guilty of using the Irish's needle-mover to further our own agendas.
If Brigham Young hasn't learned by now, there is only one football independent with the gravitas to go it alone, with its own network, in a college football sea of sinners.
This summer offers a perfect example, with Notre Dame popping up in preseason top-10 lists from Lindy's to Sports Illustrated.
It seems like only yesterday USC drilled Notre Dame last Nov. 29 at the Coliseum. The score was 49-14 but it wasn't that close. Trojans quarterback Cody Kessler threw six touchdown passes, five in the first half, and completed 80% of his passes for 372 yards.
Eight-win Notre Dame returns a promising young quarterback, Malik Zaire, who replaced starter Everett Golson in the USC game and completed nine of 20 passes for 170 yards.
USC returns … Kessler.
That didn't stop Sports Illustrated from ranking Notre Dame No. 4 in its college football preview edition (USC is No. 8), which puts the Irish in the four-team playoff.
The euphoria is based, apparently, on Notre Dame's momentum after a three-point bowl win over the worst Louisiana State team Les Miles has fielded in years.
We get it. Notre Dame was a beat-up team when it got clobbered last November by USC. That said, the Trojans were still limping from NCAA sanctions and suited up only 56 scholarship players (85 is the maximum allowed).
No one is saying Notre Dame can't, or won't, have a great season. The tout is simply not (yet) warranted.
We get it II: SI drums up more interest if it anoints Notre Dame, the program everyone either loves, hates to love, or loves to hate.
The Irish represent what the kids call "click-bait," and all editors, writers and producers know it.
"Showtime Sports" recently announced it will chronicle Notre Dame's "quest for a college football national championship with weekly, all-access in a groundbreaking new series."
Given the program's last national title came in 1988, "Showtime" could open each "quest" episode with Don Quixote, on his donkey, singing, "To dream the impossible dream."
It takes all the willpower a sports writer can muster to resist artificially inflating Notre Dame to a higher preseason power.
There is a lot to like about the Irish, yes, just as there is much to like about Arizona State, which waxed the Irish by 24 points last year in Tempe.
Arizona State is No. 17 in SI's preseason rankings.
No need to call the journalism police for this foray into First-Amendment fun, especially now that rankings and polls can no longer directly influence the national championship.
A committee has taken the role of picking the top four teams
Notre Dame returns 18 starters and will get a balanced evaluation once the games begin. The schedule, as usual, pops. The Irish are all-but assured a playoff spot if they go undefeated against a gantlet that includes Texas, at Clemson, Georgia Tech, Navy, USC and Stanford.
Having expectations is great.
"It's not going to help them beat Texas," a person close to Notre Dame's program noted.
That person is sixth-year Coach Brian Kelly.
"Certainly it's going to be a long road," he added, "a difficult road to get to where we want to go."
Zaire, the quarterback who chased Golson to Florida State, will be protected by one of the nation's top offensive lines. He'll throw to Will Fuller, one of the country's top wide receivers.
The defense returns most of the pieces from a unit so devastated by late-season injuries it allowed an average of 41.6 points per game over the final seven regular-season games.
In the end, this is Notre Dame, still the best barnstorming act this side of the Globetrotters. The Irish play Boston College this year, at Fenway Park.
Boston College, located a musket-ball's throw from the venue, has been designated the "visiting" team in this neutral-site game and will receive an allotment of 5,000 tickets.
Notre Dame is the Green Monster.
There are reasons to be giddy, and not giddy, about a Notre Dame program that lost last year to Northwestern.
In case you're wondering: yes, we purposely slotted Notre Dame for the Sunday paper. It's our highest circulation day.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-top-25-notre-dame-20150816-column.html
Notre Dame has high expectations and a lot to prove
The power of Notre Dame never ceases to intoxicate, please, annoy and amaze.
Confession: we media-types are all guilty of using the Irish's needle-mover to further our own agendas.
If Brigham Young hasn't learned by now, there is only one football independent with the gravitas to go it alone, with its own network, in a college football sea of sinners.
This summer offers a perfect example, with Notre Dame popping up in preseason top-10 lists from Lindy's to Sports Illustrated.
It seems like only yesterday USC drilled Notre Dame last Nov. 29 at the Coliseum. The score was 49-14 but it wasn't that close. Trojans quarterback Cody Kessler threw six touchdown passes, five in the first half, and completed 80% of his passes for 372 yards.
Eight-win Notre Dame returns a promising young quarterback, Malik Zaire, who replaced starter Everett Golson in the USC game and completed nine of 20 passes for 170 yards.
USC returns … Kessler.
That didn't stop Sports Illustrated from ranking Notre Dame No. 4 in its college football preview edition (USC is No. 8), which puts the Irish in the four-team playoff.
The euphoria is based, apparently, on Notre Dame's momentum after a three-point bowl win over the worst Louisiana State team Les Miles has fielded in years.
We get it. Notre Dame was a beat-up team when it got clobbered last November by USC. That said, the Trojans were still limping from NCAA sanctions and suited up only 56 scholarship players (85 is the maximum allowed).
No one is saying Notre Dame can't, or won't, have a great season. The tout is simply not (yet) warranted.
We get it II: SI drums up more interest if it anoints Notre Dame, the program everyone either loves, hates to love, or loves to hate.
The Irish represent what the kids call "click-bait," and all editors, writers and producers know it.
"Showtime Sports" recently announced it will chronicle Notre Dame's "quest for a college football national championship with weekly, all-access in a groundbreaking new series."
Given the program's last national title came in 1988, "Showtime" could open each "quest" episode with Don Quixote, on his donkey, singing, "To dream the impossible dream."
It takes all the willpower a sports writer can muster to resist artificially inflating Notre Dame to a higher preseason power.
There is a lot to like about the Irish, yes, just as there is much to like about Arizona State, which waxed the Irish by 24 points last year in Tempe.
Arizona State is No. 17 in SI's preseason rankings.
No need to call the journalism police for this foray into First-Amendment fun, especially now that rankings and polls can no longer directly influence the national championship.
A committee has taken the role of picking the top four teams
Notre Dame returns 18 starters and will get a balanced evaluation once the games begin. The schedule, as usual, pops. The Irish are all-but assured a playoff spot if they go undefeated against a gantlet that includes Texas, at Clemson, Georgia Tech, Navy, USC and Stanford.
Having expectations is great.
"It's not going to help them beat Texas," a person close to Notre Dame's program noted.
That person is sixth-year Coach Brian Kelly.
"Certainly it's going to be a long road," he added, "a difficult road to get to where we want to go."
Zaire, the quarterback who chased Golson to Florida State, will be protected by one of the nation's top offensive lines. He'll throw to Will Fuller, one of the country's top wide receivers.
The defense returns most of the pieces from a unit so devastated by late-season injuries it allowed an average of 41.6 points per game over the final seven regular-season games.
In the end, this is Notre Dame, still the best barnstorming act this side of the Globetrotters. The Irish play Boston College this year, at Fenway Park.
Boston College, located a musket-ball's throw from the venue, has been designated the "visiting" team in this neutral-site game and will receive an allotment of 5,000 tickets.
Notre Dame is the Green Monster.
There are reasons to be giddy, and not giddy, about a Notre Dame program that lost last year to Northwestern.
In case you're wondering: yes, we purposely slotted Notre Dame for the Sunday paper. It's our highest circulation day.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-top-25-notre-dame-20150816-column.html
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Odds of beating ND are slim to none. We couldn't beat them with Earl or James Brown. Can't really expect the Swoopes lead Horns to do much, but going to go up there and cheer for the horns and hope for the best. If we win I won't need to use my return flight....I'll be on cloud nine and will float back to Texas......LOL
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