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This fall will mark the final college football season that concludes with a BCS title game. The era has had its ups and downs for all, so here we will take a look at the best and worst of the past 15 years in the Big East: BEST 1. BCS bowl perfor...

Notre Dame loaded up on talented offensive linemen in its 2013 class. Friday, the Irish landed their fourth for 2014 with the addition of ESPN 150 prospect Alex Bars (Nashville, Tenn./Montgomery Bell). Here's what our scouts think of Brian Kelly's...

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Notre Dame chose to play a "home" game in North Texas long before Cowboys Stadium was picked as the first venue for the national championship in the new playoff system.

Whether Quenton Nelson (Red Bank, N.J./Red Bank Catholic) was going to commit anyway was almost irrelevant. Brian Kelly told Nelson to take all the time he needed, that Notre Dame was willing to wait until signing day for the four-star offensive line...

Blog | May 02, 2013

Coaches are allowed one phone call to prospects during the spring evaluation period. Brian Kelly made one of his count. The Notre Dame coach called four-star guard Quenton Nelson (Red Bank, N.J./Red Bank Catholic) on Wednesday, and Nelson committe...

Blog | May 01, 2013

Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly discusses the expectations facing QB Everett Golson, replacing LB Manti Te'o, and the new playmakers on offense....

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Everybody loves rankings lists, and college football fans -- by necessity -- seem to like lists even more than average folk. So we have Athlon making another list. First it ranked Pac-12 coaches. Now it ranks all 125 coaches for FBS programs. O...

Former Notre Dame quarterback Gunner Kiel plans to transfer to Cincinnati, a source said Wednesday.

Former Notre Dame quarterback Gunner Kiel has visited Cincinnati but said Tuesday he is also interested in several other programs. Kiel announced last month he would transfer from Notre Dame after one season.

Tommy Mister has sat down with coaches from the Big Ten and the Big 12. He has talked with Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly and Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads, a YouTube star for Oscar-worthy locker room monologues. Yet the coach that most impressed the...

Blog | March 27, 2013

Rising sophomore wide receivers Davonte Neal and Justin Ferguson have decided to transfer from Notre Dame, coach Brian Kelly said Wednesday.

The short-lived Gunner Kiel era is officially over at Notre Dame.

As a 32-year-old, 5-foot-6 Jewish guy from Philadelphia who has been rocking a buzzcut for the entire 21st century, I think it goes without saying that I relate to Kentucky's flat-topped phenom Nerlens Noel in a multitude of ways. The most pertinent ...

Mike Aresco's five months on the job as Big East commissioner has been anything but routine. The former CBS Sports executive vice president of programming has seen Notre Dame, Rutgers, Louisville, Boise State and San Diego State make plans to leave h...