I was close: final 2026 schedule is out.
6 ACC games, yippee!
Bye is October 24.
Link: https://fightingirish.com/irish-announce-2026-football-schedule/
Replies to: I was close: final 2026 schedule is out.
Imagine the tv ratings for the Stanford game on Peacock.
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That game deserves that.
There's zero reason to play Stanford this year
Pure crap. Dropping any early games here is cause for immediate dismissal
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Better go 12-0, we didn’t learn our lesson
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First of all do you kinow how hard it is to go 12-0? ND will get in at 11-1 easily because other
teams will lose. In 1977 our national title team lost to somebody that was a 30 point underdog and still won the title. Also other teams lose. Indiana this year barely escaped a Penn State team without their star QB. You have to be both lucky and good to go 12-0. I do think we have a better than average chance to do that and hopefully we will play every game like it is a must win. Even great teams have 1 to 3 bad days and those are the ones that if you hang in there and win, you have a chance for the title.
Ara had one unbeaten, untied season and Lou had one unbeaten, untied season.
Plus who knows how schedules shake out.
I have this vision of this 75 year old guy with his face all red getting all worked up because
Someone disagrees with him. Take a chill pill buddy and realize I’m not as much of a homer, pie in the sky, make shit up person as you are.
I have this vision of a cynical human being who doesn't read what people say, he just puts out the
homer theory. Of course I root for things to come out well for us. I also have said things like Georgia is the team to beat, or the SEC is/was the best conference. That does not sound like a homer to me. Yes, at my age I still get fired up every week we play. I got extra annoyed this year because we have the second longest winning streak in the nation, with our average victory around 28 points and were playing great football with a real shot at winning the whole thing. I did say I thought we could/would whip Indiana but that was enthusiasm carried away more than being a homer. A team Alabama, got in playing horribly the last four out of five games they played, and only beat another overrated team, Oklahoma, that I objectively felt we were better than. I think that is objective and the only thing that could possibly label me a homer was I wouln't have cared so much if somebody else got screwed instead of us. I also said Miami deserved to be ranked and in the tourney ahead of us. Don't criticize by calling me a homer, criticize if you disagree. I have admitted in the past when I am wrong and will always do so.
I guarantee I keep my cool regarding a loss because I know flukey things happen in sports and sometimes you get beat by a better team that day.
Coincidentally you pretty much just proved my point
But that’s ok. You’re a homer. One of the biggest on the board. And you make shit up like me saying I like Michigan multiple times. That one is bizarre and I attribute to your advancing age. Now if you said I thought Georgia was good. Or in years past I thought Florida was good. Sure. But I have no affinity whatsoever for Michigan other than thinking the Lake Michigan coastline and the upper Peninsula is gorgeous. I respect that you’re an ND grad. I can understand your homerism because of that. Sorry that I’m not a big enough homer for you. There has been a ton of disappointing ND football in the last 20+ years. Freeman appears to be an incredible hire though I think he relies heavily on his two coordinators and has been given incredible leeway from admissions compared to recent coaches dating back to Holtz being run off.
OK man, peace and let's just continue to root hard for the Irish. I do not want to make enemies of
anyone on here and I know we just have different attitudes but want the same goals. Are you watching the pros today, i am doing so between shovelling.
Yeah, we are at tail end of the ice storm, lost power for
2 1/2 hours, and watching the snow bowl in Denver. Careful with the shoveling. It’s Georgia but tomorrows high is 32 and 12 tomorrow night.
Not seeing USC after a century long rivalry…
Feels as if someone you went to school with died. You remember all the good times, the laughs, the arguments, all the things that make a relationship.
Here’s hoping that gets rectified….
Syracuse to close out over thanksgiving. That sucks
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Not for me.
I'll be there.
Hope Angeli wins the job.
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That's a tough injury to recover from.
I assume he misses the spring, at least.
Aint it the truth.
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In '88, Lou played 6 opponents that finished w/ losing records, including 0-11 Rice.
If I dig deeper, I probably could find similar seasons like that under Ara, Leahy, and maybe even Rock. There's going to come a time when ND will be hard pressed to schedule anybody for the crime of being independent. I feel a collusion is underfoot against our Irish. I haven't heard anything. I haven't read anything. I just feel it.
They beat the season ending #2, #4, #5, and #7 teams...
...which were, in each case, 1, 2, 3, and 9 when the Irish played them (Miami, USC, WVU & Michigan).
Penn State, Pitt and MSU were on that schedule, all having down years.
I had to look that up after reading your post, because I remembered that year having some tough teams on the schedule. Not really disagreeing with your point because several of those teams were independent, and they no longer are; and, WVU wasn't scheduled (being our bowl opponent). You just prompted me to take a look.
We have some difficult schedules in the next several years (after '27).
We play the Fighting Dan Dakichs' in '30/'31. That SOB truly has NDDS (Derangement syndrome). Cannot wait to kick their asses.
Link: https://fbschedules.com/ncaa/notre-dame/
What's so scary about those schedules?
Auburn is dog shit. So is Clemson.
Texas will be fun, but they are soft as shit. Alabama will be hot garbage by then.
Shit changes fast in this new world of college football.
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Our best chances are next two years.
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You never know what teams will flip from mediocre to VG in just a year or 2 using the IU Cig method.
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Absolutely assuming that will be the case. Teams see ND scheduled and miracles happen.
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