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Notre Dame's search for 2025 wide receivers reached Georgia on Friday morning. Antavious Richardson, a three-star South Florida commit, reported an offer from Notre Dame.

Richardson, who Rivals ranks as the No. 59 cornerback in the 2025 class, has been committed to USF since late June. Richardson played quarterback as a junior at Greenville (Ga.) High. He rushed 69 times for 801 yards and two touchdowns and completed 25 of his 56 passes (44.6%) for 423 yards with three touchdowns and four interceptions.

Richardson previously committed to Georgia State.

Notre Dame offered UCLA commit Jace Brown and SMU commit Jalen Cooper on Thursday night.

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Notre Dame's search for wide receivers in the 2025 class continued Thursday in California.

UCLA three-star commit Jace Brown announced an offer from the Irish after a conversation with general manager Chad Bowden and wide receivers coach Mike Brown.

Rivals ranks Jace Brown as the No. 27 tight end prospect in the 2025 class, but the Irish are looking at him as a receiver. Brown caught 46 passes for 560 yards and six touchdowns in his junior season at Downey (Calif.) Warren.

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@Eric Hansen and I make prop bets ahead of Notre Dame's 2024 football season. These predictions are strictly for the 12 regular season games.

Inside ND Sports subscribers can submit their Place Your Bets votes on The Insider Lounge for a chance at a free year-long subscription. Voting for these regular season prop bets is open here.

The 10 prop bets:

• Over/Under 27.5 passing touchdowns for QB Riley Leonard

• Over/Under 1,149.5 yards of total offense for RB Jeremiyah Love

• Who will lead Notre Dame in receptions?

• Over/Under 650.5 rushing yards for RB Jadarian Price

• Over/Under 1.5 starting left tackles for Notre Dame

• Who will lead Notre Dame in tackles?

• Over/Under 3.5 sacks for NT Howard Cross III

• Over/Under 5.5 interceptions for S Xavier Watts

• Will Notre Dame return a kickoff for a touchdown?

• Over/Under 3.5 missed field goals by K Mitch Jeter

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Important Rule Changes for the 2024 College Football Season

CFO and NFF team up to highlight the changes designed to improve the game in 2024, including the role of technology during the game.

IRVING, Texas (Aug. 22, 2024) – As the 2024 college football season approaches, the National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame has again partnered with the College Football Officiating (CFO) to highlight the key rule changes that will take effect this fall.

Since 2011, the NFF has partnered with the College Football Officiating (CFO), led by Steve Shaw and chaired by Mid-American Conference Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher, to help generate awareness for the rule changes in college football. The CFO functions as the national professional organization for all football officials who work games at the collegiate level, and the organization has held its annual winter meeting of conference coordinators for football officials each January at the NFF headquarters in Irving, Texas since 2013.

Shaw, who became the CFO National Coordinator of Football Officials in March 2020, previously served the Southeastern Conference and Sun Belt Conference as coordinator of officials. He also serves as the Secretary-Rules Editor of the NCAA Football Rules Committee, a position critical to the development of competition rules and policies. Shaw excelled as a head referee for 15 years in the SEC, earning 14 postseason assignments, including two national championship games. He has been a leader in revamping the sport's officiating mechanics and advancing the use of technology to assist officials.

"The mission of the Rules Committee is to develop and evaluate rules changes that will enhance the sport, protect the image of the game, and enhance the student athlete's health and safety," said Shaw. "Player safety has been the highest priority of the committee for many years now resulting in significant changes that have improved the game in terms of mitigating injuries.

2024 Rules Changes

Coach-to-Player Communications (Rule 1-4-11-b, Exception)

Coach to player communications through the helmet is permissive in 2024 for the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) based on the following guidelines:

Only one player may be on the field per team at a time with radio receiving capability and the player must be identified by an unbranded green dot on the back midline of the helmet.

Coach-to-player communications will be cut off when the play clock reaches 15 seconds or at the snap, whichever comes first. When the play clock resets to 25/40, the communications will be turned back on.

If more than one green dot helmet is detected on the field by the game officials, the result is a live ball 5-yard equipment violation penalty, and this penalty initiates a conference review.

On free kick plays, the coach-to-player communications will not be in effect. There is no limitation to the number of green dot helmets for either team during free kick plays.

A conference may develop a policy to provide guidance in handling situations dealing with communications failure.
Back Judge mechanics will be developed dealing with an in stadium play clock failure and Rule 3-2-2-f, starting of the play clock when the game clock is less than 40/25 will be modified.

FCS teams playing an FBS team may utilize coach-to-player communications in that game.

Tablets for In-Game Video (Rule 1-4-11-a, Exception 3)

Standard Tablets for in-game video only is permissive in 2024 for all football playing subdivisions and are subject to the following guidelines:

Tablets shall be restricted to "in-game video" (current game) and may not include analytics, data or data-access capability or any other communications access. No other video is allowed (e.g., scouting video, practice video, etc.).

Tablets may be used in the coach's box, sideline, and locker room and may not be interconnected to other devices to project larger/additional images.

Video may include coach's sideline, coach's endzone, and a program feed per play from the current game only and may also display "game circumstances," including down / distance / time / quarter / play-number / score.

A team may have up to 18 standard tablets active, and all team personnel may view the tablets.

If any team personnel engages an official with a tablet to show or review video, an automatic Unsportsmanlike Conduct foul will result.

Wearable Technologies

The committee had a thorough discussion of wearable technologies. The committee received and approved three DIII requests for wearable Technologies. The conferences receiving approval to experiment with wearable technologies are:

Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) - Armilla Tech
Liberty League - GoRoute
Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (ECFC) – AT&T 5G Visual Helmet for Gallaudet University

Two-Minute Timeout (Rule 3-3-5)

When the game clock is running and the ball is not live, the Referee shall stop the clock with exactly two minutes remaining in the second and fourth quarters for a Two-Minute Timeout. If the ball is live when the game clock reaches two minutes in the second and fourth quarters, the play will continue, and the Referee shall stop the clock when the ball is subsequently declared dead for a Two Minute Timeout.

The radio / TV broadcast partner will hold back at least one media timeout to coincide with the Two-Minute Timeout. If there is no media timeout partner in the game, the timeout shall be one minute plus the five-second referee notification and the 25-second play clock interval.

This change will synchronize all in-game timing rule changes to be effective following the Two-Minute Timeout, including the first down timing rules, runs, fumbles, and backward passes out of bounds, Rule 3-4-3-b penalty enforcement, replay clock adjustment, and all 10-Second Runoff situations.

The play clock will be set at 25 seconds and the clock will start on the snap.

After a year of review, Division III Committee members decided to adopt the timing rules where the game clock will continue to run when a first down is gained in bounds. The game clock will be stopped subsequent to the Two-Minute Timeout in each half. Divisions I and II institutions utilized this timing rule last season.

Collaborative Replay (Rule 12-4-3)
Conferences are now allowed the option of implementing a Collaborative Instant Replay review system. Currently, this is an experimental rule.

A collaborative decision-making model during instant replay reviews, which is in full compliance with Rule 12 and follows the Collaborative Replay Officiating Standards, is not limited to the press box of a stadium (Part II Officiating Standards, Section 16).

Horse-Collar Tackle (Rule 9-1-15)

For player safety, Horse-collar tackles that occur within the tackle box will be penalized as a 15-yard personal foul penalty. Currently, a horse-collar tackle within the tackle box is not a foul.

Replay – Halftime Intermission (Rule 3-2-1-b)

At the end of the first half, after the teams have left the field and the Referee has cleared the final play with the on-field crew and the instant replay official, and there is no coach challenge, the Referee will declare the half ended.

After the Referee has declared the first half ended, there can be no additional replay reviews from the previous play (Exception: For games in which Instant Replay is not used, a halftime Targeting video review as outlined in the Penalty section of Rule 9-1-3 & 9-1-4 may be completed).

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Carter Karels, who covers Texas A&M for GigEm247, discusses the biggest preseason developments for the Aggies, the fit of quarterback Conner Weigman with offensive coordinator Collin Klein, if A&M has enough running back talent without Rueben Owens, how good A&M's defense is, the biggest question mark on offense for the Aggies, special teams concerns, Kyle Field's atmosphere, how quickly head coach Mike Elko can get things turned around and more.

Then @Eric Hansen and I answer questions from Twitter and The Insider Lounge (24:29).

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Notre Dame's still searching for answers on its starting offensive line. Our latest depth chart projection reflects that.

For locals, it'll be on the local FOX affiliate tonight at 7 ET and on the local CBS affiliate Saturday night at 7 ET. If will eventually migrate to both the WSBT-TV website (wsbt.com) and YouTube. And I'll provide links when those are available. ...

We're again partnering with Pete Byrne and Bennett Wise of WSBT (they also work for the FOX station) throughout the season. And we'll post those shows. That will start on a weekly basis starting Monday after Marcus Freeman's 12:30 presser.

Rivals released its updated Rivals250 for the 2026 class this morning.

Notre Dame QB commit Noah Grubbs dropped from No. 44 overall as the No. 4 pro-style quarterback to No. 103 overall as the No. 8 pro-style quarterback.


*For the record, Rivals still has Grubbs ranked higher than the other major recruiting networks.

With Paul Burmeister tapped by NBC Sports to call Big Ten football games throughout the season, Notre Dame needed a new radio play-by-play voice for its football coverage.

Notre Dame picked Tony Simeone to take on the job for the 2024 season. He'll join former Irish offensive tackle Ryan Harris (2003-06), who's entering his seventh season as the color analyst, on the call. Burmeister called play-by-play alongside Harris each of the past six seasons. Notre Dame graduate Johnny Soper ('19) will be the new studio host.

Simeone should be familiar to Notre Dame fans after serving as the play-by-play broadcaster for Notre Dame men's basketball the past three seasons. He will continue to host Notre Dame's "Wake Up The Echoes" studio show/podcast. Simeone also worked on NBC's coverage of college hockey, the Blue-Gold Game and Notre Dame Pro Day.

Simeone's work with NBC Sports most recently included broadcasts of men's and women's field hockey at the Summer Olympics in Paris.

“To call Notre Dame Football games is the broadcasting opportunity of a lifetime," Simeone said in a press release. "There is no more iconic team in college football – and maybe in all of sports. I look forward to describing the action to Notre Dame fans across the nation for many Saturdays to come."

Soper is currently a broadcaster on the Big East Digital Network. He's done work for ACC Network Extra and previously did play-by-play for the WVFI, ND's student radio station.

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Dane Brugler of The Athletic released today his first top-50 draft board for the 2025 NFL Draft.

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I reported last night that 2026 LB target Tai'Yion King plans to visit Notre Dame on Nov. 9 for its Florida State game. I've heard from a few more 2026 targets who intend to be in South Bend for that game as well.

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Jermaine Kinsler, who Rivals rates as a four-star strongside defensive end in the 2026 class, has one visit set so far for the 2024 season: Notre Dame at Texas A&M on Aug. 31.

Notre Dame offered Kinsler as a defensive tackle in March.

Story from @Ryan OBleness:

Lane Kiffin went on a random rant on Coca-Cola the other day. Brian Kelly countered with a shout-out to Coke and its Smartwater product.

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Linebacker Tai'Yion King is gearing up for his junior season at Port Arthur (Texas) Memorial, which will start with a scrimmage on Thursday, but he took some time to catch me up on a busy game visit schedule he's put together.

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