You have to love this kid! Battles to get a scholly, makes some good plays last week and shows up this week, but on the kickoff returned for a TD he sticks his nose in and gets a lead block and kind of gets blown up a bit but at the end of the return, Jordan is downfield blocking at the very end........you have to love what that kid brings!

He got twelve men on the field this game instead of ten. Progress, folks.

Freeman and Hartman have had good moments and bad moments the past four weeks but they always represent ND well as people.
Hartman really shined after the Duke and USC games

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Notre Dame hosted 2025 tight end target James Flanigan on an unofficial visit on Saturday. The four-star recruit out of Green Bay (Wisc.) Notre Dame De La Baie Acad’s last visit to the Irish was in July for the Grill & Chill recruiting event.

According to Rivals, Flanigan is ranked as the No. 7 tight end and No. 244 overall player in the 2025 recruiting class.

“[Director of Recruiting] Chad [Bowden], [head] coach [Marcus] Freeman and all the other coaches are always awesome, we have always had a great relationship with them,” Flanigan told Inside ND Sports.

Flanigan was observed walking into Notre Dame Stadium during The Victory March with Bowden, Irish commits and 2025 targets like wide receiver Jerome Bettis Jr. and offensive tackle Owen Strebig.

After watching Notre Dame’s offense, Flanigan told me there a lot of similarities between how the tight end position is used with his high school and the Irish.

Flanigan, an Irish legacy and son of former defensive end Jim Flanigan (1990-93), said the USC game was actually the first Notre Dame game’s he’s attended as a recruit.

“It was really fun hanging out with the other guys in the stands and getting to know them,” Flanigan said.

James has nine total offers including Notre Dame, Michigan, Penn State and Stanford. He visited Stanford at the end of September for its game against Oregon.

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The coaches poll and AP polls will drop in the next couple of hours. Here's this week's FWAA-NFF Super 16 poll, which I vote in along with Lou Holtz. Chris Zorich, Mark May and and host of other folks with questionable sanity. I always past in my ballot at the end of these posts. As a reminder, I do a top 25 from my decades as an AP voter, but only my top 16 count in this poll. If you want to see how other voters cast their ballots, you can see them here.




HANSEN'S BALLOT
1. Washington
2. Georgia
3. Ohio State
4. Florida State
5. Oklahoma
6. Penn State
7. Michigan
8. Oregon
9. Texas
10. Oregon State
11. Alabama
12. North Carolina
13. Ole Miss
14. Notre Dame
15. Duke
16. Utah
17. USC
18. Tennessee
19. LSU
20. Missouri
21. Louisville
22. Air Force
23. Tulane
24. UCLA
25. James Madison

From und.com ... Irish fall to 1-2.

RIT 3, NOTRE DAME 0: Box Score

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The University of Notre Dame hockey program dropped a 3-0 decision to RIT Saturday evening at Blue Cross Arena.

The Irish found themselves down a man early after a trip was called at 1:26 of the opening stanza. RIT capitalized on the Notre Dame penalty in the waning seconds to take the 1-0 lead just 2:57 into play.

Just minutes later the Irish found themselves on the two-man advantage after a trip and too many men penalties were assessed to the Tigers. Despite four shots on goal during the five-on-three opportunity, the Irish could not convert and trailed by a tally halfway through the first period.

The Tigers took the 2-0 lead at 12:26 of the first after a shot out front beat Ryan Bischel blocker side.

Although Notre Dame fired a few more shots on goal before the end of the period, the Irish headed to the locker room down by two goals after 20 minutes of play.

The Irish came out with a vengeance in the second period, searching for that opening goal and peppering the Tigers’ net in shots. Halfway through the middle frame, the Irish led shots on goal by a 24-10 margin.

RIT took advantage of a turnover late in the period to extend their lead to 3-0, a score that would hold through the final horn.

Both teams continued to battle in the third period but the Irish were unable to break the Tigers’ netminding and skated to the 3-0 final.

UP NEXT
The Irish return home to Compton Family Ice Arena to host Boston University, Oct. 20-21. Puck drop Friday night is set for 7:30 p.m. before a 6 p.m. start to close out the season series Saturday.

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Notre Dame men’s basketball hosted many targets and prospects on Saturday during the football game against USC.

One of those prospects was Gregory Lawson, a 2025 point guard out of Davison (Mich.) High. Lawson has 11 offers including Arkansas, Florida State, Louisville, Penn State and TCU and has picked up interest from the Irish and head coach Micah Shrewsberry this fall.

Lawson spoke at length with Inside ND Sports last month before his visit.

The 6-foot-3, 185-pound posted pictures from his visit on X (Twitter).

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he good

surprised to see him but looked ready to play……feeling a bit better about the future along the DL

Montana hugging Hartman. Memory of a lifetime for Hartman.

I actually don’t blame the play caller overall. Receivers aren’t getting open, and when they are, Sam’s missing them. He’s got happy feet, understandable after the past few weeks of pass-pro. Long story short: is this a broken offense or one devoid of weapons? This game should be about 40-3 right now.

In a long long time. I’ve been berry critical of LB play and they were great yesterday. Bertrand was a beast.

Inside ND Sports is gathering recruits instant reactions to Notre Dame’s 48-20 win vs. USC. I plan to have more recruiting coverage through the weekend and into next week on Saturday's visitors.

I'll actually start with 2025 LB target Nathaniel Owusu-Boateng, who wasn't in attendance but took notice of Notre Dame's win. Story on the Irish legacy from last month.

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Get me???

What do you think?

You tune into the fox pregame show. Brady and alienate made a bet the loser has to wear the mascot outfit for the next show. Leinert will be dressing as the leprechaun. I hope it’s for the entire show.

It was a defensive masterpiece for Notre Dame on Saturday night, but we couldn't go with all five defining plays on defense.

Here are mine:

1. Xavier Watts’ first interception
2. Sam Hartman’s first touchdown pass
3. JD Bertrand’s fourth-down stop
4. Marist Liufau’s sack of Caleb Williams
5. Jadarian Price’s kick return touchdown


What else would you have included?

I felt so good to fall asleep and wake up while thinking of this win.

@Eric Hansen and I of discuss the biggest takeaways from No. 21 Notre Dame's 48-20 beatdown of No. 10 USC in Saturday's game at Notre Dame Stadium.

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It's been a chilly, dark and gray day in South Bend, but the rain has left us for now and it looks like it will leave us alone for the rest of the evening at Notre Dame Stadium for tonight's Notre Dame-USC matchup.

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