SOUTH BEND — All of a sudden, Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey and his team are starting to emerge as a potentially dangerous team with Atlantic Coast Conference action just getting underway.

SOUTH BEND – The 2021 season may be over following Notre Dame’s 37-35 loss to Oklahoma State in the Fiesta Bowl last Saturday, but things are already beginning to take shape for 2022 after multiple reports of coaching changes and player moves occurring in the days after the Fighting Irish’s …

GLENDALE, Ariz. — During the last couple of weeks leading up to Saturday’s Fiesta Bowl, all you’d hear from Notre Dame players and coaches was how important beating Oklahoma State was to them. The Fighting Irish had something to prove. There was a massive chip on the shoulders of every playe…

GLENDALE, Ariz. — After 30 minutes of play Saturday, it seemed the BCS/New Year’s Six bowl curse that’s hovered over the Notre Dame football program for nearly 30 years was finally going to be lifted.

PHOENIX – The wait of witnessing the 51st annual Fiesta Bowl is almost over.

PHOENIX — There had always been whispers of then-defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman being the next head coach at Notre Dame from the moment he accepted the position with the Fighting Irish last offseason.

PHOENIX — Outside of the College Football Playoff games taking place on New Year’s Eve in Arlington, Texas and Miami, Florida, the Fiesta Bowl on Saturday afternoon (1 p.m. ET, ESPN) between No. 5 Notre Dame (11-1) and No. 9 Oklahoma State (11-2) may be the next-best prime bowl game on the list.

PHOENIX – Over the last few weeks, Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman has done his best to dodge whether he’d be calling the defensive plays Saturday against Oklahoma State since being announced as head coach.

PHOENIX – With COVID-19 spreading like wildfire across the country and causing more postponements and cancellations throughout all college and professional sports each day, the thought of a Fiesta Bowl cancellation likely began to creep into people’s minds.

SOUTH BEND – With Notre Dame’s appearance in the Fiesta Bowl now just a week-and-a-half away, head coach Marcus Freeman addressed the media for the final time before the Fighting Irish depart for Arizona Monday.

SOUTH BEND – Notre Dame redshirt freshman Xavier Watts hasn’t had the type of journey within the Fighting Irish football program he probably expected when he enrolled early at the university during the spring of 2020.

SOUTH BEND — On Dec. 10, Notre Dame starting running back Kyren Williams announced he’d be forgoing his team’s appearance in the Fiesta Bowl and declaring for the 2022 NFL Draft.

SOUTH BEND — With extra eligibility due to COVID’s impact from a season ago, many juniors and seniors have important decisions to make as the 2021 season nears its end.

SOUTH BEND – Last Saturday, Notre Dame (4-4) converted on a chance to turn its season around after upsetting then-No. 10 Kentucky (7-2), 66-62, at the Joyce Center.

SOUTH BEND – Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman welcomed many new faces to the Fighting Irish football program Wednesday.

SOUTH BEND — Marcus Freeman has had to learn a lot in a short amount of time since becoming the head coach of Notre Dame last week.

SOUTH BEND – Sometimes, the storylines simply write themselves.

SOUTH BEND — Two of Notre Dame’s best players in safety Kyle Hamilton and running back Kyren Williams announced via Twitter on Friday that they’d each be entering the 2022 NFL Draft and forgoing the Fiesta Bowl in the process.

SOUTH BEND — There hasn’t been a lot of down time for new Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman over the past week-and-a-half, and that’ll likely continue to be the case with some important dates ahead over the next couple of months.

SOUTH BEND — Man, what a seven days in South Bend.

SOUTH BEND — After an insane week for the Notre Dame football program that saw the all-time winningest coach in Fighting Irish history depart for the Bayou, Monday was a welcomed return to stability within the Irish Athletics Center.

SOUTH BEND – After an 11-1 finish to its regular season, Notre Dame was awarded with a New Year’s Six Bowl berth on Sunday.

SOUTH BEND — One of the oddest factors regarding former Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly’s sudden departure from South Bend had to do with the current state of the team.

Multiple media reports are indicating that Marcus Freeman will be the next head football coach at Notre Dame.

Former Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly did so much good during his time as leader of the Fighting Irish as a football coach. You can’t argue against that.

SOUTH BEND – The insane coaching carousel that has affected major college football programs all across the country has now surprisingly blazed through Notre Dame.

SOUTH BEND — The reported news Monday night became official Tuesday morning: Brian Kelly is no longer the head football coach at Notre Dame.

SOUTH BEND — The Legends Trophy will be up for grabs once again on Saturday when No. 6 Notre Dame (10-1) looks to wrap up its impressive regular season with a convincing victory over Stanford (3-8) in Palo Alto, California (8 p.m. ET, FOX).