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Nate Moller | Thursday, November 18, 2021
Every year around this time, the college football world revolves around the weekly College Football Playoff rankings. Nearly every week there exists some surprise with a team ranked too high or too low. The recent controversy has been the discussion about what to do with Group of Five teams such as Cincinnati. Although the Bearcats
Sam Ouhaj, Thomas Zwiller, Jamison Cook and John Stolmeier | Wednesday, November 3, 2021
The release of the CFP rankings by the committee has left many fans confused and angry, including us at the Roundtable. However, these rankings are bound to change as we enter the 10th week of college football and were definitely done intentionally. Regardless of what we may think, it is time to break down this
Mannion McGinley | Friday, October 1, 2021
The ACC, SEC, Big 12, Pac 12 and Big 10. Schools from each of these Power 5 conferences are ranked every week in things like their sports, their academics, their social life, and their alumni network. In all of these conversations, the schools are represented by their logos, an ever present, easily recognizable symbol for
Madeline Ladd | Thursday, September 23, 2021
The Notre Dame women’s soccer team will make their way down to Coral Gables, Florida this Thursday for a match against the Miami Hurricanes. The Fighting Irish women escape the South Bend weather and enter sunny Florida off the back of a win against the Syracuse Orange this past weekend. A strong way to start
Observer Sports Staff | Thursday, December 3, 2020
Notre Dame football’s game against Wake Forest, which was scheduled for Dec. 12, is canceled, the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) announced Tuesday. The game was originally rescheduled due to a spike in COVID-19 cases on the team earlier this year. ”The league’s Athletic Directors have voted to preserve the integrity of the ACC Football Championship
Hayden Adams | Monday, September 14, 2020
Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday of last week, Notre Dame announced the fall schedules for women’s and men’s soccer teams and the cross country squad, respectively, with contests beginning this week. The Atlantic Coast Conference previously announced on July 29 that men’s and women’s soccer would play six conference games and that the top four teams
Nate Moller | Thursday, August 13, 2020
There was plenty of news surrounding the Irish football program ahead of the anticipated start to Fall Camp on Aug. 12. To prepare for camp, 117 Notre Dame football student-athletes received a COVID-19 test on Aug. 10. Of the 117 athletes who were tested, only two players tested positive for the virus. One of the
Observer Sports Staff | Thursday, August 6, 2020
Editor’s Note: This report was updated at 12:19 p.m. Aug. 8. The ACC announced the football slate for all 15 teams — including Notre Dame — Thursday morning on the ACC Network’s Packer and Durham. The biggest news for Notre Dame is that their one non-conference contest was slated to be against Western Michigan, breaking
Observer Sports Staff | Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Editor’s Note: A version of this story was published online July 29. The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) announced its conference plan for the 2020 football and Olympic sports seasons. Notre Dame will join the conference as a full participant in football for the 2020 season. The league will play a 10-game conference football model with
Observer Sports Staff | Thursday, July 9, 2020
The landscape of college football changes more and more each day as it was just announced Thursday that the Big Ten will be the first conference to implement a conference-only schedule for fall sports, including football. “We are facing uncertain and unprecedented times, and the health, safety and wellness of our student-athletes, coaches, game officials,