The entire college football world is awaiting this Saturday's battle between Notre Dame and Pitt. With ESPN gameday on the scene, a midday battle between playoff hopefuls will take place with major implications.
As the 2025 college football regular season begins to wind down, each game remaining carries extra weight for teams that are in the CFP hunt. This notion most definitely applies to both Notre Dame and Pitt.
Wide receiver Jaden Greathouse broke out during the College Football Playoff last season, making him a key piece of Notre Dame's offense in 2025. But he's played just two games due to injury, and Notre Dame will be without him again for Saturday's crucial game at No.
Normally, whenever Notre Dame travels to play a game in the noon window, I have concerns about a sluggish start for the Irish as they adjust to the early kick on the road, but not this time.
This is it. This is the last barrier between Notre Dame, and a spot in the College Football Playoff … Maybe. Even at 10-2, there’s still the question of who else will be available.
Notre Dame seems in line for a place in the College Football Playoff this week, sitting inside the top-ten of the second CFP rankings, but with basically no margin for error with two losses already.
Although the 2025 college football season is far from over, Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman has been mentioned in a few rumors this week. Freeman is currently in his fourth year as the coach of the Fighting Irish.
As expected, the No. 18 Notre Dame women cruised to an 85-58 win over Akron on Wednesday night, but it was the historic outing from star Hannah Hidalgo that stole the show.
The latest College Football Playoff rankings came out Tuesday night and the good news for Notre Dame is that it moved up one spot to No. 9 this week. That came after BYU was blitzed at Texas Tech, as Notre Dame had checked in at No.
Notre Dame and Pittsburgh are set to square off in one of four ranked-on-ranked matchups between teams in the College Football Playoff rankings this weekend.
CBS sports analyst Rick Neuheisel took a shot at Notre Dame and the school's "brand" giving the Irish a boost in the College Football Playoff rankings.
As head coach Marcus Freeman has more and more success with the Notre Dame football team, other programs are going to try and pursue him heavily. At only 39 years old, Freeman is a young and vibrant head coach who continues to get better with more experience.
It has been a frustrating 2025 season so far for Notre Dame wide receiver Jaden Greathouse. After his incredible finish to last season against Penn State and Ohio State, which included 13 receptions for 233 yards and three touchdowns, most expected the junior pass catcher to continue ascending on the national landscape.
No. 10 Notre Dame and No. 24 Pittsburgh are set to clash in a Week 12 non-conference matchup, with the game taking place at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh, PA.
Marcus Freeman has found his name at the center of the head coach rumor mill with more than one prominent job recently opening up, but he has reportedly made his stance on leaving Notre Dame clear.