Notre Dame defensive coordinator Al Golden met with local media Tuesday night after practice ahead of Saturday's game against Army. Here's everything Golden said during his session with writers.

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

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Any chance he returns next year given he missed the second half of the season?

NFL teams may want to know about his recovery.

Thoughts?

It's time for Game 11 of Place Your Bets for the 2024 season. We're making prop bets for CFP No. 6 Notre Dame's Shamrock Series game against Army.

ICYMI: Subscribers can compete individually in Place Your Bets for a chance to win free subscription months to Inside ND Sports. The top subscriber will get a year's subscription for free. The second-place subscriber will get six free months.

Instructions are included in the thread linked here and in the Google Form linked below.

@Eric Hansen and I share our weekly picks the Friday before every game this season. I will share the results next week in this thread and we’ll have an updated standings thread throughout the season.

Here are the Game 11 prop bets for Notre Dame-Army. Voting is open now and closes at kickoff on Saturday (7 p.m. EST on NBC).

• Over/Under 1.5 touchdowns for ND RB Jeremiyah Love
• Over/Under 3.5 catches for ND TE Mitchell Evans
• Will Notre Dame make a field goal?
• Over/Under 94.5 rushing yards for Army QB Bryson Daily
• Over/Under 4.5 completions for Army

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Any school who is penciled into the CFP bracket the week before going into a conference championship game this year with the probable exception of Oregon runs the risk of being left out of the CFP if they lose their conference championship game. Whereas, if they didn’t play in the conference championship game, they would remain in the CFP and get a week off to rest and heal. Didn’t all the brilliant conference commissioners like Greg Sankey, the SEC Commissioner, and athletic directors at the different schools see this coming? Perhaps Swarbrick did and kept his mouth shut all the while wondering how none of the other power players realized the sweet spot Notre Dame would always be in if they were among the highest ranked teams in any given year like this year with the hope they would always be in the running for the 5 through 8 seeds (ideally 5).

@Eric Hansen and I will record another Inside ND Sports podcast on Thursday.

Send us some questions you'd like us to discuss. We like to give priority to questions submitted on The Insider Lounge.

If you have multiple questions, try to be succinct and ask them separately. Thanks!

I’d like to get your input which sports figures you think were great athletes but didn’t exactly translate into good players, and vice-versa. Here’s my cut on that list:

Great athletes, mediocre players:
Tim Tebow
Johnny Manziel
Russell Wilson


Great players, mediocre athletes:
Larry Bird
Tom Brady
Babe Ruth
Philip Rivers
Brett Favre

From the Tuesday night media availability of Notre Dame football coordinators and players, we’ve provided full transcripts of both offensive coordinator Mike Denbrock and defensive coordinator Al Golden.

We also wanted to give you some content from the other interviews. So, here are the greatest hits, or at least the most intriguing quotes, from quarterback Riley Leonard, wide receiver Jayden Harrison, safeties Rod Heard II and Xavier Watts and special teams coordinator Marty Biagi

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Here's the Irish Access video from Fighting Irish Media on Notre Dame's victory over Virginia:

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Place Your Bets is back for the 2024 Notre Dame football season.

I know what you’re thinking, it’s not quite game week yet. But this year we’re starting a week early to make some prop bets for the entire regular season as well.

Before we get into those, let me explain Place Your Bets for the uninitiated. Starting with these preseason predictions and every Notre Dame game week throughout the season, @Eric Hansen and I will make prop bet predictions as a way of previewing the upcoming game. We’re not wagering any money, but we do keep score.

We also keep score for our subscribers on The Insider Lounge who want to participate. The first-place subscriber will win a free year-long extension of their subscription. The second-place subscribers will win a free six months.

How do you participate? Starting this week and every game week of the season, I will share a Google Form link where you can submit your prop bet predictions. The link is usually live by Wednesday of each week at some point.

In completing the Google Form, you will need to include an email with every weekly submission. If possible, please use the email associated with your Inside ND Sports subscription. And make sure to use the same email each week. If you don’t use the email connected to your account here, you can send us an email to insidendsports@gmail.com to let us know which email you’re using and what your username is on the board.

That will not only allow us to reward the winners at the end of the season, but it will also let me include the correct username in our weekly standings.

The deadline for this first Place Your Bets with regular season predictions will be next Wednesday at 8 a.m. EDT. Then the deadlines in the following game weeks will be the announced kickoff times.

@jeffrnr is our defending champ. @rover219 was last year’s runner-up. Best of luck to everyone competing!

I’ll share a link to the prop bets both in this thread and in a separate voting thread as well. We’ll use this thread as the standings thread in the future.

It's time for Game 10 of Place Your Bets for the 2024 season. We're making prop bets for No. 8 Notre Dame's home game against Virginia.

ICYMI: Subscribers can compete individually in Place Your Bets for a chance to win free subscription months to Inside ND Sports. The top subscriber will get a year's subscription for free. The second-place subscriber will get six free months.

Instructions are included in the thread linked here and in the Google Form linked below.

@Eric Hansen and I share our weekly picks the Friday before every game this season. I will share the results next week in this thread and we’ll have an updated standings thread throughout the season.

Here are the Game 10 prop bets for Notre Dame-Virginia. Voting is open now and closes at kickoff on Saturday (3:30 p.m. EST on NBC).

• Will any Notre Dame player have more tackles than LB Jack Kiser?
• Over/Under 3.5 catches for Notre Dame WR Jaden Greathouse
• Higher number for Riley Leonard: rushing touchdowns or passing touchdowns
• Over/Under 3.5 catches for Virginia WR Chris Tyree
• Will Notre Dame DT Rylie Mills have at least one sack?

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Irish ranked 6th, seeded 8th, story to come.

Notre Dame had 10 commits in the Rivals250 the last time an overall update was released in August. Now there's only six Notre Dame commits in the Rivals250.

Though that shift feels big, here's why it's not that surprising:


It helps that five of those Notre Dame commits are within the top 105.

Notre Dame freshman guard Sir Mohammed underwent surgery Monday for "a lower-body injury," the Irish men's basketball announced this evening.

Mohammed's is expected to recovery following an indefinite absence.

Mohammed had been dealing with a knee injury since this summer.

“We as the Notre Dame basketball family have been thinking about Sir, and are thankful that surgery was successful,” head coach Micah Shrewsberry said in a released statement. “Sir is a big part of our present and future. Under the guidance of our medical staff, led by our athletic trainer, Nixon Dorvilien, we are very confident that Sir will receive the best care for his long-term health as he rehabs and returns to 100 percent health.”

Mohammed didn't play against Georgetown on Saturday and averaged 2.5 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists in the first two games this season.


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It's halftime of the Notre Dame men's basketball game, so let's get the game thread for Notre Dame-Virginia rolling.

We will use this game thread as the primary home for game commentary from now until after the game. We have some rules we'll ask you to follow, which will be included below.

If you're not following the rules and do not respond well to reminders, we'll remove you're posting privileges for the rest of the day. We have too much to do today to argue about it during the game. This doesn't happen often as we're pretty lenient in the game thread, but please keep that in mind.

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One of Notre Dame's 2026 linebacker targets just reached out to let me know that he'll be at Notre Dame's game against Army in Yankee Stadium on Saturday.

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Notre Dame men's basketball will look to stay hot while hosting North Dakota (2-1) in Purcell Pavilion at 7 p.m. EST.

Notre Dame (3-0) is fresh off a 84-63 victory at Georgetown on Saturday. The Irish won their first two home games of the season against Stonehill (89-60) and Buffalo (86-77).

Notre Dame has three players averaging at least 15 points per game so far this season: Markus Burton (17.7), Tae Davis (16.3) and Braeden Shrewsberry (15.3).

North Dakota is second in Division I in 3-point percentage defense with opponents making just 19.0% of their 3s so far this season. The Irish are hitting 39.1% of their 3s through three games.

Notre Dame has high national rankings in field goal percentage (13th, 53.4), defensive rebound margin (14th, 13.0) and field goal percentage defense (26th, 35.2).

Notre Dame's starting five should remain the same: guards Markus Burton, Braeden Shrewsberry and Matt Allocco and forwards Tae Davis and Kebba Njie.



Tip: 7 p.m. EST
Watch: ACCNX
Listen: Notre Dame Radio Network
Follow: Live stats

Notre Dame women's and men's cross country both won Friday the NCAA Great Lakes Regional at Silver Creek Metro Park in Norton, Ohio.

The women won with 51 points ahead of second-place Wisconsin's 97. The men won with 70 points ahead of second-place Wisconsin's 82.

Three women finished within the top 10: Siona Chisholm in third (19:35.1), Erin Strzelecki in fifth (19:37.8) and Mary Bonner Dalton in ninth (19:49.2).

Two men finished within the top 10: Carter Solomon in fifth (29:22.9) and Ethan Coleman in 10th (29:28.9).

Both Notre Dame teams will complete in Saturday's NCAA Championship races at the Zimmer Championship Course in Madison, Wisc. The women’s 6k begins at 10:20 a.m. EST, and the men’s 10k starts at 11:10 a.m. EST. The events will be televised on ESPNU.

I didn’t think it could be done ngl

That Shrews tho… 👀🔥

Notre Dame offensive coordinator Mike Denbrock met with the local beat media on Tuesday night after practice as the Irish continue preparations for Saturday night's Shamrock Series game with Army. Here's everything he had to say. Answers are largely verbatim. Questions may have been edited for brevity and clarity.

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@Eric Hansen previously confirmed that Notre Dame and Texas were finalizing a deal for a home-and-home series between the two football programs for 2028-29.

The dates for those matchups have been finalized. Notre Dame will host Texas on Sept. 9, 2028. Texas will host ND on Sept. 22, 2029.

Story:

Pretty highly ranked prospect, ESPN saying we’re “firmly in the mix” 👀

Anyone able to catch me up?