Notre Dame football received an intriguing second chance in the 2027 recruiting class when star quarterback Teddy Jarrard opted to reclassify into the 2026 class.
Notre Dame finds itself in a unique position as we start to look forward to the 2026 football season. The Fighting Irish are returning the majority of the starters from the 2025 season, including star quarterback CJ Carr, to pair with a defense that is sure to be in the top-five nationally.
In a remarkable story, the Indiana Hoosiers are national champions. IU is the sport’s first first-time national champion since Steve Spurrier’s bunch in Gainesville won in 1996.
How many of the NCAA QBs who won the College Football National Championship in the BCS and CFP era can you name in five minutes?
While things are in a great spot with former Ohio State wide receiver Mylan Graham, many Notre Dame fans have been wondering what the program’s transfer portal chances are with his former teammate, and fellow former five-star pass catcher Quincy Porter.
If you think back to the 2024 recruiting class, Notre Dame football made a very early decision to prioritize quarterback CJ Carr. At the time, it was viewed as a controversial decision, by some at least.
CJ Carr completed 17 of 27 passes for 205 yards and two touchdowns as No. 9 Notre Dame cruised to a 49-20 win over host Stanford on Saturday night. Jadarian Price had a rushing touchdown and a receiving touchdown for Notre Dame (10-2), which won its 10th in a row to wrap up the regular season.
With only a few weeks left in the 2025 college football season, the postseason is right on the horizon. The topic of conversation that everyone is obsessing over is the latest College Football Playoff rankings and all the movement that could potentially happen over the last couple of games.
We all know that the Las Vegas Raiders need a quarterback for the future. The question is whether they’ll draft one next year. Minority owner Tom Brady caused a stir recently by heaping praise on a potential target.
When Notre Dame quarterback CJ Carr opted for the Fighting Irish back in the 2024 recruiting class, most saw it coming for a few months. Head coach Marcus Freeman, Tommy Rees, and Notre Dame had asserted themselves as the team to beat very early on in the process.
CJ Carr and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish are 7-2, with a Week 12 matchup against the Pittsburgh Panthers. They're on a seven-game winning streak after losing their first two games of the season to Miami and Texas A&M.
CJ Carr completed 13 of 16 passes for 218 yards and three touchdowns, and No. 10 Notre Dame cruised to a 49-10 win over Navy on a rain-soaked Saturday night in South Bend, Ind.
Notre Dame will meet Navy on Saturday night in a matchup that pits two programs with opposite offensive philosophies. The Fighting Irish are coming off a 25-10 win over Boston College, while the Midshipmen enter at 7-1 after a 31-17 loss to North Texas.
After a 0-2 start to the season, Notre Dame football now sits at 5-2 overall, and still has some control over its own destiny. The blueprint for trying to complete the Fighting Irish goals is very clear: win the last five regular season games, and you are most likely in the College Football Playoffs.
On the heels of a 36-7 win over North Carolina State, the question now becomes: have the Fighting Irish managed to overcome their early-season defeats to get back into the College Football Playoff picture?
No. 16 Notre Dame is coming off three straight wins and playing as well as it has all season. Those who believe in momentum would certainly say that the Fighting Irish have it on their side.
Through five games, CJ Carr has been everything and more Notre Dame could have asked for from a redshirt-freshman quarterback. That's not to say he hasn't had some bumps along the way, but his play has been at a level most hoped for but certainly didn't expect.
Notre Dame was mighty impressive on Saturday, whooping Arkansas 56-13 in a game that was over before halftime. The win moves Notre Dame to 2-2 on the year, as it's averaged over 50.6 points per game over the last three weeks.
Everyone around the Notre Dame program knew that whoever was named the Irish starter at the QB position would go through a learning curve and that mistakes would be made.
Losing the season opener is never an ideal situation for any program with National Championship aspirations like Notre Dame. Sunday night, they dropped their first game of the season on the road against the 10th-ranked, now 5th-ranked, Miami Hurricanes down in Hard Rock Stadium.
Look, we’ve all seen those freshman quarterbacks who come in looking like deer in headlights, throwing passes into the third row and generally making everyone wonder if they accidentally wandered onto the field from band practice.
No. 6 Notre Dame Fighting Irish decided to roll into the season with CJ Carr, a redshirt freshman, as their starting quarterback. He showed in the first half of Sunday's season opener against No. 10 Miami why that might have been a smart decision.
The wait is over in South Bend, Ind. Head coach Marcus Freeman has officially named CJ Carr the starting quarterback for Notre Dame’s 2025 season. For a program searching for stability at the most important position, this marks the beginning of a new chapter.
The Athletic's Pete Sampson provided more detail as to what might have led to Marcus Freeman waiting to name CJ Carr the starter.
The grandson of a former Michigan Wolverines head coach is taking over as quarterback at a rival school.
Notre Dame is handing the keys to the offense to sophomore CJ Carr, who had his hand raised by head coach Marcus Freeman as the victor of a competitive battle for the starting quarterback job with junior Kenny Minchey in fall camp.
The Fighting Irish opened up training camp on Thursday, marking the first day of Notre Dame's quarterback competition between Kenny Minchey and CJ Carr.
Notre Dame is looking for a new quarterback in 2025 and redshirt freshman CJCarr is right in the mix of the battle for the starting role. The talented signal caller will have to earn the starting job in fall camp, but he has the talent to not only win the job, but to thrive.
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