The 24-point deficit was the largest any Marcus Freeman team has faced in his 43-game run as Notre Dame football coach.

ATLANTA – Notre Dame was college football’s biggest story ... referencing the loss to NIU. “This is what it’s all about, man. It’s the journey, right? There’s a journey, and you ...

When Leonard is on the Irish are very, very hard to beat ... to turning this game in Notre Dame’s favor. Nobody believed the Irish could recover from the loss to NIU and win the rest of their ...

Sure, Illinois won 10 football games in 2024. Beat some good teams along the way. But nobody on the 2025 Illinois roster had a victory as impressive as the one on Ethan Hampton's resume. As the ...

Look no further than the Huskies' upset over Notre Dame as to why. Give NIU an inch and they'll take a mile ... teams that have the bigger and better athletes. They can still beat the likes of Purdue ...

ATLANTA — Same old Notre ... we beat the SEC champs (Georgia). We won three straight playoff games. We’ve changed the narrative of who we are as a program.” They kept the pain of NIU ...

Once Leonard finally left the celebratory confines, what he found inside the tunnel was a crowd of Notre Dame fans giving him ... "After the [NIU] loss, it was like screw everybody," Cross said.

In a historic season for college football that saw the implementation of an expanded playoff format from 4 to 12 teams, Ohio State and Notre Dame each carved their ... for a gimme matchup against ...

The Notre Dame offensive lineman -- then a freshman ... in large part due to the way they say Freeman handled the defeat. "After the NIU loss, a lot of coaches may scream and yell, and I ...