Inside ND Sports is reaching out to visiting recruits for their instant reactions to Notre Dame's 17-14 loss against Ohio State on Saturday.

2025 OL prospect Kage Payne

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"You know it was a great game and in my opinion, the Notre Dame offensive line really controlled the second half. That’s two top five teams in college football and it just comes down to some small things. Great game played by both teams."

Deion Colzie will be out multiple weeks. Jayden Thomas is dealing with a hamstring strain.

When you watch Flores and Greathouse shine as true freshmen, it is obvious they were far better prepared to get on the field early due to the great programs they played for. How much time and effort does ND spend recruiting the coaches and players for perennial powerhouse programs. Far less chance of a bust in my opinion because they have already shown themselves against the best competition and are used to playing in more sophisticated systems.

Looking for 3 tickets for USC.......please email cjostes@comcast.net. Thanks much

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Notre Dame men’s basketball hosted 2025 power forward target Malachi Moreno on an unofficial visit this past Saturday.

The 6-foot-11, 210-pound recruit is rated as a four-star by Rivals. He is ranked as the No. 62 overall player in the 2025 recruiting class.

Moreno attends Georgetown (Ky.) Great Crossing High School and plays on the grassroots basketball circuit with Indiana Elite.

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We'll discuss head coach Marcus Freeman's Monday press conference, the aftermath of Notre Dame's 17-14 loss to Ohio State, look ahead at Saturday's game at Duke and answer questions from viewers.

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Story from Rivals National Recruiting Analyst @Clint Cosgrove.

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From NBC Sports

STAMFORD, Conn. – Sept. 25, 2023 – NBC Sports drew its largest regular-season college football audience in 30 years for No. 6 Ohio State’s down-to-the-wire 17-14 win over No. 9 Notre Dame, with a touchdown in the closing seconds on Saturday night.

The Buckeyes’ three-point victory over the Fighting Irish averaged 10.5 million viewers across NBC, Peacock and NBC Sports Digital, ranking as NBC Sports’ second-most watched regular season college football game of all-time, behind only then-No. 2 Notre Dame’s “Game of the Century” 31-24 defeat of No. 1 Florida State on Nov. 13, 1993 (22 million viewers).

Additional viewership highlights from Ohio State-Notre Dame:

• The Average Minute Audience (AMA) of 605,000 viewers for Saturday night’s live stream via Peacock and NBC Sports Digital platforms marks NBC Sports’ most-streamed college football simulcast.
• Viewership for Ohio State-Notre Dame peaked at 14 million from 10:30-10:45 p.m. ET, as the Buckeyes drove for the game-winning score (a one-yard run with one second remaining).
• Excluding the Labor Day holiday weekend, Saturday night’s matchup is the most-watched primetime regular-season college football game on any network since 2018.
• Ohio State-Notre Dame (7:37 p.m.-11 p.m. ET) registered a national NBC-TV household rating of 5.1/16.

Viewership figures are based upon live + same day data from Nielsen and Adobe Analytics.

TOP METERED MARKETS FOR OHIO STATE-NOTRE DAME (based on 44 markets available):

So we all know the key plays, and at this point there isn’t much more to say about how it shook out. But I want to talk about what I saw from the position groups, and where we are as a program.

oline: Held up well in pass plays, and stayed tough with the run game. The interior held up well.
Running backs: This is a good group, with alot of talent, could be elite in the coming years.
Receivers: Young and talented, but not ready to threaten elite defenses. It was a shame last night we didn’t even have a Lenzy type we could send deep to keep them honest.

Dline: After pondering this, i thought they held up well. We will need to develop an elite pass rusher, in the coming years. But this group was tough at the point of attack all night

Linebackers: They have heart, but the upperclassmen are a little stiff, Bertrand out in coverage, is not ideal. Sneed and the younger guys need more and more snaps
Secondary: This group played at a high elite level all night imo. Let’s remember what they were up against. Wish Brown could have snagged that last ball, but this group is what have us a real chance imo. The 3rd and 19 I hold the coaches more accountable for calling the prevent D.

Conclusion: Big missed opportunity, and we have been here before. Consistent recruiting cycles with the transfer portal, could push us through in the coming years, but again we have seen this before, and we can’t have recruiting misses going forward. Freeman and the coaches let the guys down the final 4 min imo. Freeman has to rally the guys going forward

The Irish will play in prime time on four consecutive Saturdays. Notre Dame's game at Louisville on Oct. 7 will kick off at 7:30 p.m. EDT and will be televised on ABC.

Notre Dame played in that timeslot on Saturday against Ohio State and will do so again this coming Saturday at Duke, which will also be on ABC. The Irish will then host USC on Oct. 14 at 7:30 p.m. EDT.

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Notre Dame mens basketball has offered 2026 point guard Jonathan Sanderson. The Irish hosted Sanderson on an unofficial visit this past Saturday for the Ohio State football game.

The 6-foot-3 point guard is ranked as the No. 42 overall player in the 2026 recruiting class. He is a four-star recruit according to Rivals.

Sanderson attends Saline (Mich.) High, the same school that Notre Dame football 2024 four-star quarterback CJ Carr attends.

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I'm looking at the CBS predictions. All seven of their experts pick Notre Dame to cover the spread. But three of them pick Ohio State to win straight up. That means that they are predicting that Notre Dame will lose by one to three points.

I wonder what odds Vegas would give on that happening? Maybe 50 to 1?

All that strangeness aside, I like to see four out of seven CBS experts picking Notre Dame to win outright. And it would seem that the other three want to pick Notre Dame but can't quite bring themselves to do it. I can't think of any other reason why they would restrict their predictions to succeed in a range of just three points.

Rubio Long Snapping ranks Joseph Vinci as the No. 3 long snapper in the 2024 class. Now he's committed to a preferred walk-on spot with Notre Dame.

The latest on some top targets:

Well, let's get dark.

My five defining plays from Notre Dame's loss to Ohio State are all missed opportunities for the Irish.

1. Spencer Shrader’s 47-yard missed field goal
2. TreVeyon Henderson’s 61-yard touchdown run
3. Sam Hartman’s five-yard loss as Irish tried to run out clock
4. Emeka Egbuka’s third-down conversion of 21 yards
5. Chip Trayanum’s one-yard touchdown run
Unfortunately, there were others to choose from. What should have made the cut?

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@Cole Patterson and I shared optimism for Notre Dame's 2025 class following the commitment of quarterback Deuce Knight.

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Looks like 2025 QB commit Deuce Knight is taking his swing at recruiting 2024 Tennessee 2024 CB commit Kaleb Beasley on Instagram.

Screenshot of their exchange below:



Inside ND Sports recently downgraded Beasley from Hot to Mild on The Heat Index. He has no visit to campus scheduled currently.

Notre Dame currently has two cornerback commits in its 2024 recruiting class, Karson Hobbs and Leonard Moore.

Since hosting Beasley, a four-star recruit out of Nashville (Tenn.) Lipscomb Acadmey, for a visit in the spring, the Irish and cornerbacks coach Mike Mickens have been working to flip him from the Volunteers.

Knight has a relationship with Beasley from his stint earlier this year at Lipscomb Academy. Beasley also tagged Irish cornerback Benjamin Morrison in his post.

Win big games that matter.

And if anyone says this was a “good” loss you’re clueless…. We have a horrible record vs top 10 teams 4-22 last 10 years and it’s just brutal.

I was at the game and spend all weekend on campus. They had the crowd, ESPN, the QB and still couldn’t win.

Also items exploring the hypothetical Notre Dame QB parallel universe and a shortened ND playing rotation and notable film grades from the Irish-OSU game. ... And the weekly stat matrix, how ND compares statistically with every team on its 2023 schedule.