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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We're keeping track of all the outgoing and incoming transfers for Notre Dame in our Notre Dame Football Transfer Tracker:


We'll have stories and updates included in our Portal Roundup that will be continually updated:


Rivals is tracking all the transfer portal activity nationally at the link below. I'll update it to the 2024 rankings when it's released.

Well done by Brendan McAlinden, aka verypiratey, of One Foot Down.

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No, I am not throwing myself out of my own house the weekend of Oct. 12. But I have really very little idea about suggestions for a game weekend accommodations beyond my guest rooms, which are already spoken for that weekend. It's the weekend of Oct. 12, and my friends are looking to stay up to an hour's drive away Friday and Saturday nights. Any suggestions as to something that might be affordable and/or a fun/good spot to spend those nights? Thanks in advance, and yes I'll gladly accept your joke responses as long as you provide some real ones as well.

I recorded this with Mike Golic, Pat Scanlon and Jamie Uyeyama a week ago, and it's on YouTube now if you want to check it out.

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@Adam Gorney has notes on 2025 QB commit Deuce Knight and 2026 targets Brandon Lockhart (USC CB commit) and Jett Washington (Bishop Gorman ATH).


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#NotreDame lands two players on the Associated Press Preseason All-America first team — S Xavier Watts and NG Howard Cross III — and two more on the 2nd team — CB Benjamin Morrison and TE Mitchell Evans.

First team (offense)

Quarterback — Carson Beck, fifth year, Georgia.

Running backs — Ollie Gordon II, third year, Oklahoma State; Omarion Hampton, third year, North Carolina.

Tackles — Will Campbell, third year, LSU; Kelvin Banks Jr., third year, Texas.

Guards — Donovan Jackson, fourth year, Ohio State; Tate Ratledge, fifth year, Georgia.

Center — Parker Brailsford, third year, Alabama.

Tight end — Colston Loveland, third year, Michigan.

Wide receivers — Luther Burden III, third year, Missouri; Tetairoa McMillan, third year, Arizona; Emeka Egbuka, fourth year, Ohio State.

All-purpose player — Travis Hunter, third year, Colorado.

Kicker — Graham Nicholson, fourth year, Alabama.

First team (defense)
Edge — James Pearce Jr., third year, Tennessee; Ashton Gillotte, fourth year, Louisville.

Tackles — Mason Graham, third year, Michigan; Howard Cross III, sixth year, Notre Dame.

Linebackers — Harold Perkins Jr., third year, LSU; Jay Higgins, fifth year, Iowa; Barrett Carter, fourth year, Clemson.

Cornerbacks — Will Johnson, third year, Michigan; Denzel Burke, fourth year, Ohio State.

Safeties — Malaki Starks, third year, Georgia; Caleb Downs, second year, Ohio State.

Defensive back — Xavier Watts, fifth year, Notre Dame.

Punter — Alex Mastromanno, fifth year, Florida State.

Second team (offense)
Quarterback — Dillon Gabriel, sixth year, Oregon.

Running backs — TreVeyon Henderson, fourth year, Ohio State; Ashton Jeanty, third year, Boise State

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Tackles — Ajani Cornelius, fifth year, Oregon; Aireontae Ersery, fifth year, Minnesota.

Guards — Tyler Booker, third year, Alabama; Dylan Fairchild, fourth year, Georgia.

Center — Cooper Mays, fifth year, Tennessee.

Tight end — Mitchell Evans, fourth year, Notre Dame.

Wide receivers — Tez Johnson, fifth year, Oregon; Tre Harris, fifth year, Mississippi; Ricky White III, fifth year, UNLV.

All-purpose player — Zachariah Branch, second year, Southern California.

Kicker — Andres Borregales, fourth year, Miami.

Second team (defense)

Edge — Nic Scourton, third year, Texas A&M; Abdul Carter, third year, Penn State.

Tackles — Tyleik Williams, fourth year, Ohio State; Deone Walker, third year, Kentucky.

Linebackers — Danny Stutsman, fourth year, Oklahoma; Jason Henderson, fourth year, Old Dominion; Nick Martin, fourth year, Oklahoma State.

Cornerbacks — Benjamin Morrison, third year, Notre Dame; Sebastian Castro, sixth year, Iowa.

Safeties — Dillon Thieneman, second year, Purdue; Billy Bowman, fourth year, Oklahoma.

Defensive back — Ricardo Hallman, fourth year, Wisconsin.

Punter — James Ferguson-Reynolds, third year, Boise State.

My notebook has items on Mike Denbrock calling Texas A&M's Kyle Field a "hornets' nest," the Irish not having a No. 1 WR yet, the work done to emphasize pre-snap motion and more.

“We're going to have to, and we've already done this, work on different cadences and snap counts and things like that to make sure we're clued in,” Denbrock said. “We're going to have to be careful about how much motion and shifting and different things we build within the game plan because you can't hear. It's hard. Communication is hard."

Notre Dame previously announced the Louisville game as the first sellout of its 2024 home football schedule. Two more games were declared sellouts today: Miami (Ohio) on Sept. 21 and Florida State on Nov. 9.

Tickets from the university are still available for the home games against Northern Illinois (Sept. 7), Stanford (Oct. 12) and Virginia (Nov. 16).

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Reminder: Games declared as sellouts now will sometimes have tickets returned and made available closer to the game.

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Here's the sizzle reel from today's scrimmage.

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Notre Dame defensive coordinator Al Golden wants his helmet and headset communication to mimic Sully Sullenberger’s stoicism.

"We just try to keep it really quiet,” Golden said. “We try to keep it calm."

A good visual here from Rivals on where the Rivals250 talent is located in the 2025 class.

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The Heat Index has been updated with the following changes (a bit overdue due to camp coverage):

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It was really interesting to hear Denbrock’s take on Kyle Field. Basically said the place is extremely problematic, then gave half a dozen specifics on how the team intends to address the problem.

This was good to hear, because in the past, we have appeared to be under-prepared for less intimidating road atmospheres.

Vinny Freeman, the oldest son of Marcus and Joanna Freeman, is a talented wrestler at Penn High School in nearby Mishawaka.

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