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-9 posts tagged "CFP"
Thomas Zwiller | Thursday, November 17, 2022
I will come right out and say it: This week of college football is boring. Of the top-25 teams playing on Saturday, the average point spread is 14.7. That feels like Vegas telling you that you can turn your TV off and go for a walk. Do not get me wrong, there are good games.
Jack Sirianni | Friday, February 25, 2022
If you are anything like me, you long to hear the sound of trumpets and bagpipes playing on the campus of Our Lady’s University on a warm fall day while you parade around without a care in the world. However, we are well into cold Indiana winter. This winter is ripe with midterms and spring
Sam Ouhaj, Jamison Cook, Matt Smith and Thomas Zwiller | Thursday, November 18, 2021
With just two weeks before the college football season ends, there are still plenty of games that have huge playoff implications moving forward. We have three of the biggest games this weekend to break down and discuss here at The Roundtable. NCAA Games of the Week No.7 Michigan State @ No.4 Ohio State Arkansas @
Emily DeFazio | Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Did anyone else see Logan Diggs absolutely vault over that UVA defender? The play immediately brought me back to the infamous Najee Harris hurdle over former Irish defender Nick McCloud in the 2021 Rose Bowl; only this time, it was one of Notre Dame’s guys that did the leaping. What a nice change of pace
Thomas Zwiller | Monday, November 8, 2021
When I read the first College Football Playoff (CFP) Rankings, I had a feeling I was not the only person slightly annoyed. The Playoff Committee has always been relatively high on Alabama in the past; the year they did not make it (2019-2020), I honestly thought the Committee would find a way to sneak a two-loss Alabama
Jimmy Ward | Wednesday, September 22, 2021
The Irish may have come away with a win on Saturday at home against an in-state rival, but their hardest work of the year still lies ahead of them. Although it was their most dominating performance of the season, the Boilermakers still gave the Irish a run for their money at the end of the
Observer Sports Staff | Friday, April 23, 2021
A little Halloweekend primetime action for the Fighting Irish in 2021? That’s a distinct possibility when potential top 2022 NFL draft selection Sam Howell and his North Carolina Tar Heels visit Notre Dame on October 30th. With USC visiting the weekend before, it’s not a guaranteed evening kickoff for the Irish, but it’s one of
Charlotte Edmonds | Monday, January 4, 2021
It was a hit that would make any fan cringe in pain, and for a second it looked like it might be the final snap of graduate student quarterback Ian Book’s career at Notre Dame. Six-foot-five, 310-pound lineman Christian Barmore leveled Book with four minutes remaining in the third quarter. But like much of Book’s
Aidan Thomas, Patrick Gallagher, Nate Moller, Liam Coolican and Dominic Gibson | Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Well, here we are: the last Observer Roundtable picks for college and pro football. But don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened. And smile even wider because we’re doing special “future picks.” For college football we have the Power 5 Conference Championships (1 point for each correctly picked participant, plus 1 for picking