Why were Taco Tuesdays introduced? Because they wanted to give us something to taco ’bout the whole week. Now that all of my children are blind from eyeballs rolling out of their heads… lets get to the Notre Dame Football triple option.
HOW GOOD WILL NOTRE DAME BE?
Advanced stats say Notre Dame is going to be really good this season. People that know ball say Notre Dame is going to be really good this season. We know the schedule is very manageable (to say the least) but how good is this 2026 Notre Dame Football team?
GRAY NICKEL
If you think
about it… silver is kind of gray, so it makes sense that Christian Gray is moving to Nickel — right? This just gives me another chance to say I was wrong about my February depth chart predictions. Without getting into all of the reasons why, I felt like Christian Gray would still be at the corner opposite of Leonard Moore. And who knows — maybe that will still be the case (maybe) as Tyler Horka writes:
He’s still getting some reps at outside corner, and he could very well end up playing more there than he does at nickel — there is so much time between now and the season opener to figure it out and get positions and pecking orders sorted — but for the time being, it’s feeling more and more like he’s Christian Gray the nickel. Not Christian Gray the field corner.
Ultimately, that designation will be settled throughout an ongoing offseason competition between Gray, sophomore Dallas Golden and Michigan transfer Jayden Sanders, also a sophomore.
THE NOTRE DAME RULE
A couple of quick things to start… 1) Having a rule unofficially be called “The Notre Dame Rule” because the Irish are so insanely good at something that it feels like cheating is pretty awesome 2) The fact that 60 out of 61 coaches oppose the rule (which adjacently means they support Notre Dame) is insanely funny.
WILL THIS PAULING TO BE DRAFTED
Last week I went on a New York Giants podcast determined to talk about a player that hasn’t been mentioned much during the draft process. The player? Notre Dame WR Will Pauling. After his blazing 40 yard dash time at Notre Dame’s Pro Day, I felt that all of his intangibles, his production, and NFL team needs would be enough for him to hear his name called in the NFL Draft. Call him a “sleeper” if you want.
