We've previously covered two of the marquee games on Notre Dame women's basketball schedule for the 2024-25 season. The Irish will play at USC on Nov. 23 and host Texas on Dec. 5.

We've also known that Notre Dame will play a home game against UConn and a road game at Purdue. Those schools have released dates for those games on their respective schedules. Notre Dame will host UConn on Dec. 12. and play at Purdue on Nov. 10.

A chronological listing of those non-conference games:

Nov. 10 - at Purdue
Nov. 23 - at USC
Dec. 5 - vs. Texas
Dec. 12 - vs. UConn

@Eric Hansen joins WSBT sports director Pete Byrne to discuss Notre Dame football preparing for hot weather at Texas A&M and young players with a chance to make an impact on Notre Dame's defense.

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Notre Dame QB Riley Leonard is one of 80 players named to the preseason watch list for the Maxwell Award, which recognizes the most outstanding player in college football.

We'll update this thread with future watch list mentions.

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Notre Dame's five-star recruit in the 2024 class made @Adam Gorney's Freshman All-America Team on defense. A Texas A&M player also made the list.

Freshman Anthonie Knapp's journey as Notre Dame's starting left tackle earned him a spot on @Adam Gorney's Freshman All-America Team

Tyler,

What is going on with this kid, buried on the depth chart came in with a ton of positive press?????

Notre Dame offensive coordinator Mike Denbrock met with the media on Tuesday night after a practice session on a sweltering afternoon in South Bend, Ind. Here's everything he had to say. Answers are largely verbatim. Questions may have been edited for brevity and clarity.

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Release from FightingIrish.com:

CHICAGO - The Big Ten Conference and Chicago Cubs announced the schedule for the 2025 Frozen Confines: Big Ten Hockey Series in a joint statement Thursday, August 15. The University of Notre Dame hockey team will compete against Penn State on Friday, January 3, 2025, as part of a four-game event between Big Ten programs.
The trip to Wrigley Field in 2025 marks the fourth outdoor game appearance for the program in the modern era having previously played at Soldier Field, Fenway Park and Notre Dame Stadium. The Irish most recently played an outdoor game during the 2018-19 season when they hosted Michigan inside Notre Dame Stadium.
Ticket Information

• All tickets for this event will be sold through Wrigley Field. A variety of presales will be available to priority access groups at 10 a.m. CST on the following dates:
  • August 27 - 2024 Hockey Season Ticket Members
  • August 28 - All other 2024-25 Notre Dame Athletics Season Ticket Members, including premium groups
  • August 29 - Notre Dame Football ticket lottery participants, and priority access subscribers
• Instructions on how to access the presale will be distributed to eligible fans via email.
• Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, August 30, at 10 a.m.
  CT and are available at Cubs.com/BigTenHockey.

The full Big Ten slate will be announced at a later date.

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Pictured: Grant Silianoff

This is basically the opposite of what Marcus Freeman opened his Monday press conference with in regards to Notre Dame's health.

Charlotte head coach Biff Poggi says his team is down 8-9 starters due to injury coming out of the preseason. I also chuckled that he said that's nearly 50% when 9/22 is actually 40.9%. Still a lot, but the math is about as good as the injury prevention over there.

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From Inside Lacrosse ... Dylan Faison is the younger brother of Notre Dame sophomore two-sport standout Jordan Faison.

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Miami (Ohio) head coach Chuck Martin doesn't hold back on Alabama landing Lou Groza Award winner Graham Nicholson out of the transfer portal this offseason.

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Notre Dame defensive coordinator Al Golden met with local media Tuesday night after practice ahead of Saturday's season opener at Texas A&M. Here's everything said during his session with print reporters.

Answers are largely verbatim. Questions may have been edited for brevity and clarity.

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My opinions of Jack S is he’s done some
Good things while at ND, but he’s also missed on some things while at ND. Overall I think he improved ND’s position from his predecessor but doesn’t walk on water.

That being said I was very critical of him around the most recent playoff format as ND can never get a bye and be in the top 4. In retrospect after hearing this take maybe he was playing underwater 3D chess while the conference AD’s were playing checkers. For those of you who don’t TikTok basically the take I’m sharing is this.


4th seed is likely to go to a Big 12 school who is arguable the worst conference…There is a good chance that team isn’t even a top 10 ranked team in the country even though by rules they have the 4 seed. If ND goes undefeated or is a one loss team they will most likely be a 5 seed. That would have them play a home game against a school like Tulane for the first round and then the second round against a school like Oklahoma state or Houston. Being the 5 seed might be the easiest path to the final 4 teams. If your the 3rd seed you most likely play the 5th best team in the country. So let’s say last year if you were seeded 5th you’d have played liberty and then probably Oklahoma St. liberty was ranked 25 and Oklahoma st was ranked 16.

So basically no conference championship game so you get a week of rest then two teams they should be heavy favorites in

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Wednesday at noon ET until around 3 p.m. We have a bunch of new subscribers, so I'll go over a couple of things. In that format, please include your NAME and HOMETOWN. If you want to post in threads here, you can use your secret code name and you don't even have to include what planet you're from. Also, for the chat, don't post your questions in this thread, but rather in the link below. The queue is already open and will remain so until the end of the live portion. A full transcript will be posted later on Wednesday afternoon. Here's a link to ask a question (anytime) or join the chat live ...

https://live.jotcast.com/chat/notre-dame-football-live-chat-aug-28-2024-19041.html

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@samspiegelman's takeaways from a trip to North Carolina include items on 2026 LB target Thomas Davis Jr. and 2025 S commit JaDon Blair.


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@Adam Gorney makes a prediction in favor of Notre Dame in this story on the remaining uncommitted five-star recruits in the 2025 class.


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Week Zero kicks off the 2024 college football season tomorrow (8/24). What are your playoff/championship predictions?

Here's mine:

8 Alabama over 9 Penn State
5 Notre Dame over 12 UT-San Antonio
7 Oregon over 10 Missouri
6 Texas over 11 Kansas State

1 Georgia over Alabama
Notre Dame over 4 Utah
2 Ohio State over Oregon
Texas over 3 Florida State

Georgia over Notre Dame
Ohio State over Texas

Georgia over Ohio State

The Heat Index has been updated with the following changes:

WR Jace Brown’s debut on The Heat Index comes with a heat rating of Plain.
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WR Jalen Cooper’s debut on The Heat Index comes with a heat rating of Plain.
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WR Antavious Richardson’s debut on The Heat Index comes with a heat rating of Plain.
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