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Sports Central December 2, 2005 Adam Russell |
Oregon Could Be Odd "Duck" Out of BCS The big question: What happens to college football's Bowl Championship System if either Texas or USC lose Saturday?  |
Sports Central November 9, 2005 Mike Griffenberg |
Notre Dame Not as Good as Advertised However, Notre Dame will be a major player in the college football world as long as Charlie Weis is there, just not this year.  |
Sports Illustrated December 4, 2001 Ivan Maisel |
Bob Davie's Firing: The End Came at the Start On Dec. 5, 2000, in the wake of Notre Dame's 9-2 regular season, athletic director Kevin White extended coach Bob Davie's $1 million-a-year contract through 2005. On Sunday, three days short of the extension's first anniversary, White fired Davie...  |
Salon.com September 27, 2002 Allen Barra |
Notre Dame's return to glory! (Part 23) Why does the college's legendary -- but creaky -- football program have to keep coming back?  |
Sports Central November 30, 2004 Mark Chalifoux |
Confessions of a Notre Dame Fan I like Tyrone Willingham and I really wanted him to succeed. He is a great person and a good coach, but his time at Notre Dame has been wasted.  |
Sports Central August 26, 2004 M. Edward Guest |
Problems Under the Golden Dome Following its 1977 national championship, punctuated by a decisive victory over No. 11 Texas in the Cotton Bowl, the Notre Dame Fightin' Irish slipped in the national rankings.  |
Sports Illustrated November 9, 2001 Tim Layden |
Irish stew Is head coach Bob Davie solely to blame for Notre Dame football's slide?  |
Sports Illustrated November 21, 2000 Kelley King |
Darkened Knights There are many reasons why Rutgers should win in football, but the Scarlet Knights continue to lose  |
Sports Central November 6, 2005 Sara Normand |
USC/ND Greatest College Game Ever? Southern California versus Notre Dame on October 15, 2005 could go down as the greatest four hours in college football history. And the last three minutes could qualify it as the most controversial, as well.  |
Sports Central December 1, 2005 Avery Smith |
Bluebook Notes #10: BCS Top 10 A look at the top 10 teams in the BCS to see if they truly deserve their ranking... Five guys with the best chances of taking home the Heisman... This week's games to watch...  |
Sports Illustrated December 5, 2000 Ivan Maisel |
Inside College Football Move over, New Coke. The Bowl Championship Series, which is in its third year, is a case study in how to provide the public with an innovation it doesn't want. The BCS crunched the numbers, and the result was controversy..  |
Sports Central November 27, 2006 Alfons Prince |
Down to the Wire ... Again With only one week left in the 2006 college football regular season, it is looking like the bowl championship series (BCS) will once again escape any major controversy.  |
Sports Illustrated July 18, 2001 Ivan Maisel |
Irish stew Notre Dame quarterback controversy looks awfully familiar  |
Sports Central November 4, 2009 Corrie Trouw |
USC's Paper Trojans Saturday was a monumental night in the college football world, but the developments of the night stretch beyond this season.  |
Sports Illustrated September 17, 2002 Ivan Maisel |
Early returns Three programs that have shown signs of football arthritis won in unexpectedly glorious fashion. Notre Dame, Penn State and USC all beat ranked opponents, and their teams, if not their actual horn-rimmed, white-socked coaches, look 25 years younger.  |
Sports Illustrated September 25, 2002 Frank Deford |
Father Football Notre Dame feels the pull between pigskin and academics.  |
Sports Central September 3, 2012 Joshua Duffy |
Despite Win, Fighting Irish Still Lost For those who might not remember it, Notre Dame football used to mean something. It was a higher state of intercollegiate being. But it's been a while since those Irish glory years.  |
Sports Central September 14, 2004 Mark Chalifoux |
Luck of the Irish Returns to South Bend A star was born in South Bend on Saturday, in the shape of super-frosh Darius Walker, who gained 115 yards in his first three quarters of college ball, scoring two touchdowns on his way into Irish lore. Paul Hornung must've been proud.  |
Salon.com November 10, 2000 Allen Barra |
Have the Fighting Irish gone soft? Notre Dame is enforcing stricter academic standards in a push to deemphasize football. Why now?  |
Sports Central November 14, 2012 Andrew Jones |
What Alabama's Loss Means For BCS College football fans were worried a choice between Kansas State and Oregon for the right to battle Alabama for the national championship would be close to impossible to make and then the unthinkable happened: Alabama lost.  |
Sports Central October 12, 2005 Avery Smith |
Bluebook Notes #5: Pasadena Projections A closer look at the ten teams with the best shot at heading to the Rose Bowl.  |
Sports Central October 18, 2005 Mark Chalifoux |
Weis Leads Notre Dame Into New Era Polls won't matter in the end if (when) Notre Dame takes care of business by winning out.  |
Sports Central November 14, 2005 Alfons Prince |
For Once, BCS is Avoiding Controversy With the college football season coming to a close, the participants for this year's national championship game are pretty close to being finalized.  |
Sports Central November 26, 2012 Ross Lancaster |
The Case for Florida After Notre Dame's 22-13 win against USC effectively clinched its spot in Miami on Jan. 7, the Fighting Irish will almost surely play the winner of next Saturday's SEC Championship Game between Georgia and Florida for the BCS crown.  |
BusinessWeek December 19, 2005 Mark Hyman |
Business Wants A Piece Of Charlie By reviving the Irish, Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis has become a hot commodity.  |
Sports Central March 11, 2010 Kevin Beane |
College Football Week 1 Preview A look at the matchups kicking off the start of the college football season.  |
Sports Illustrated December 4, 2001 Ivan Maisel |
College Football: Burning Questions Is is better to be lucky than good?... Whither Notre Dame?... Did BYU get cheated?...  |
Sports Illustrated July 3, 2001 Ivan Maisel |
Early tests loom for several teams Gearing up for the college football season.  |
Sports Central November 30, 2005 Jeff Pohlmeyer |
A Playoff in College Football? Like it or not, there is no fool-proof way to decide a national champion.  |
Sports Central December 20, 2010 Adam Russell |
A Case For Bowl Contraction Well, here we are with another bowl season upon us, the supposed "postseason" of college football. But I'm not as interested in this bowl season as I have been in the past.  |
Sports Central January 4, 2006 Mark Chalifoux |
Irish on Road Back to Glory An argument in n defense of Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis.  |
Sports Central September 21, 2009 Kyle Jahner |
Dealing and Reeling So who is the emerging team in college football that could do damage on a national level?  |
Sports Central October 15, 2012 Paul Foeller |
What a Load of BCS BCS ranked Florida Gators at No. 2. It's not that the Gators are a bad team, or even a mediocre team. It's just hard to imagine a team with an offense that disappears for stretches as often as this one does going to the championship game.  |
Sports Illustrated April 30, 2002 Ivan Maisel |
Going Coastal Notre Dame spent the spring trying to get a grip on its new football coach's West Coast attack...  |
Sports Central November 17, 2005 Avery Smith |
Bluebook Notes #9: Leinart Second in L.A. Matt Leinart is not the best quarterback in the country... The "HeisDAQ": whose Heisman "stock" is rising and falling?... College games to watch...  |
Sports Central November 7, 2012 Adam Russell |
Pac-12 Balance of Power Shifts North Although there are still a handful of games remaining in the season, it's pretty safe to say that the balance of power has officially shifted north in the Pac-12.  |
Sports Central December 22, 2004 Kevin Ferra |
The Nature of the Business It should be a collegiate rule that head coaching changes can not be made until after the bowl games have ended. The least they could do is give players the best opportunity to win the games that they have worked their entire lives for.  |
Sports Illustrated October 3, 2002 Ivan Maisel |
Conspiracy theory There's just no pleasing Notre Dame followers  |
Sports Central January 29, 2007 Kyle Jahner |
Lesson Learned From Bowl Season What December and January taught us about college football.  |
Sports Central December 20, 2012 Kevin Beane |
2013 College Football Week 1 Preview This year, the preview's earlier than ever! I'd also say we have a better slate of games upcoming in the first week of 2013 past.  |
Sports Central September 25, 2006 Corrie Trouw |
Teams Sacrificing Style, Winning Ugly As several aspiring national champions showed on Saturday, sometimes the substance of a win matters a little more than its style.  |
Sports Illustrated October 16, 2002 Ivan Maisel |
Half-season awards Honoring the best in what so far has been a thrilling college football season  |
Sports Central December 23, 2009 Kyle Jahner |
Deck the Halls (and the BCS): Bowl Predictions The 11 most interesting bowl games of the season -- because 11 is a nice even number.  |
Sports Central December 9, 2003 Adam Russell |
Best Championship System, or Best Contender Screwed? The University of Southern California has been jilted out of the Sugar Bowl by the BCS computers, despite being ranked number one in both human polls.  |
Sports Central November 25, 2003 David Martin |
Why ESPN Hates the BCS I have two problems with the way college football is covered by national media types. First of all, most of them, e.g., ESPN, have a pro-playoff agenda. The second problem is that once they see a team they love, like the Oklahoma Sooners, they declare the de facto title winner.  |
Sports Central May 14, 2007 Seth Doria |
Birth of a College Football Fan Here are 50 games this year worth circling on your calendar.  |
Sports Central October 23, 2009 Kyle Jahner |
College Football Midterm Report There are three teams that, as expected, are very good if not great.  |
Sports Central December 3, 2007 Joe Boesch |
Not So Fighting Irish in '07 One has to look at one person for Notre dame's disappointing season -- Charlie Weis.  |
Sports Central November 25, 2009 Kyle Jahner |
Thanksgiving Prep: Setting the Table Here's a rundown: what happened, and what we learned from the third-to-last week of college football.  |
Sports Central October 15, 2007 Adam Russell |
Is Pac-10's Parity Mediocrity or Strength? Was the Pac-10 Conference worth its mettle this season - or was just another year of mediocrity?  |