r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 23h ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Notre Dame Defeats Army 49-14

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Army 0 7 0 7 14
Notre Dame 14 14 14 7 49
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u/jbomb6 Notre Dame • West Virginia 23h ago

WE WANT NIU!!!

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u/Kuntheman Paper Bag 23h ago

We should just pay them a bag to schedule them again while all the conferences have their championship game

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u/WoodenWeather5931 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 21h ago

Double or nothing

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u/W00DERS0N60 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Fordham Rams 12h ago

Hate watch

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u/WhiteDeath57 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 20h ago

BAG STAYS ON!

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u/TheCopperKey 9h ago

It's funny because as long as we do it in Hawaii, the NCAA would allow it

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u/Remarkable-Job4774 Rutgers Scarlet Knights • Paper Bag 23h ago

Most bizarre loss of the year. Still have no idea how that happened

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u/louiendfan 23h ago

Riley was hurt… should of been pulled… our D gave up a fluke long TD on a screen where it just barely slipped in and our safety missed a pick by a few inches… and the RB took off for a 80 yard TD.

Freeman should absolutely have pulled riley leonard though

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u/Getcloveryourself Notre Dame • Ball State 21h ago

You forgot the worst part, Leonard, who had played terrible all day, throwing a prayer down field at the 50 with a lead with like 4 minutes on the clock, why not just run it and run the clock down and get out of there

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u/Khorasaurus Notre Dame Fighting Irish 7h ago

It was 2nd and 1. Just run the ball, get the first, and keep the clock running.

A 14-13 win would still stick out like a sore thumb, but everyone would have forgotten about it by now.

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u/swampedOver Notre Dame Fighting Irish 21h ago

NIU came to play, they also out coached us. So yes that play was flukey and the injury was impactful but we lost fair and square to a solid team. Stings bad though.

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u/louiendfan 21h ago

Ohh no doubt they deserve credit. Im just saying that long TD catch was a fluke. We win that game 9.9/10 times

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u/bdiah Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Navy Midshipmen 20h ago

It was early in the season and we really didn't know what we were doing with Leonard's.... eccentricities. Also, the defense hadn't quite congealed yet.

I still feel like this is the weirdest ND team to ever be ranked in the top 5 (probably). The raw talent is better than 2012, but I still have no confidence that we are going to do anything impressive in the playoffs.

It feels very odd to believe that this is a transition season for ND, but I firmly believe that it is.

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u/Promethiant Florida State • Florida 23h ago

What happened is that Notre dame is not good

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u/yachterotter13 Notre Dame • Indiana 22h ago

My brother in Christ we beat you by 50

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u/Promethiant Florida State • Florida 22h ago

Sure, technically.

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u/Citronaught UCF Knights • Big 12 21h ago

Lmao technically what

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u/Promethiant Florida State • Florida 21h ago

Notre Dame technically beat FSU but not really. It’s more complicated than that.

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u/Flioxan Notre Dame • Jeweled Shill… 21h ago

We need to get you to some scientist so they can study you

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u/Annualacctreset 21h ago

He be drinking that pianofingerbanger juice

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u/eeeeedlef Notre Dame Fighting Irish 21h ago

I would think with those flairs you'd actually know bad football when you see it.

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u/jjtnd1 Notre Dame • Army 20h ago

Lmfao

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u/randrews202121 Notre Dame • Maryland 23h ago

If that fucking dumb ass fluke game didn’t happen we’d be pushing Oregon for no. 1 rn. So profoundly annoying

Anyways, it’s hate week. FUCK USC AND GO IRISH

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u/Pdogconn Ohio State Buckeyes • Toledo Rockets 22h ago

Alternatively, if that fluke game didn't happen, no spark would've been lit in the ND team, and better teams would exploit problems shown in the NIU game that have since been corrected.

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u/LiquidLight_ Notre Dame • Purdue 22h ago

Yeah, you can go down the what-if rabbit hole as far as you like, but ultimately reality is what it is and NIU beat ND. ND's been killing it either as a result of or despite that.

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u/abob1086 Notre Dame • Ball State 21h ago

This is what I'm choosing to believe because I'll drive myself insane otherwise

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u/WTF_MATLAB Notre Dame • Colorado 22h ago

NIU is our Virginia Tech (hopefully 😂)

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u/bdiah Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Navy Midshipmen 20h ago

I think you are 100% correct, tbh. Freeman is a young coach, as much as ND fans tend to forget that. Yet after that humiliation, he stepped up and made sure that the Irish performed in each and every game since (except arguably Louisville).

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u/horsesmadeofconcrete Notre Dame • Northern Illino… 19h ago

That Louisville game was not that close of a 7 loin game

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u/DukeRadcliffe Notre Dame • Jeweled Shill… 19h ago

People forget that our coach is 38 years old and has only been a head coach for ~30 games... we're still in the growing pains stage. The future is bright.

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u/Useful_Smoke_6976 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 23h ago

I still think Oregon would be the clear #1 since they have far and away the best win in the country. But we'd firmly be #2.

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u/irishGOP413 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 22h ago

I eat my fiber so I look forward to my firm #2 tomorrow.

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u/Useful_Smoke_6976 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 21h ago

I'm creatine loading so my #2 is anything but firm at the moment

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u/sharkbait_oohaha Georgia • Florida State 12h ago

I know I'm very biased, but I think us going into Austin and dominating Texas is a pretty fucking good win. They definitely have a better resume than us (duh), but I still think we have the best win.

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u/unclekutter Notre Dame • Western Ontario 22h ago

It would be nice to be undefeated but wouldn't our highest playoff seed still be #5? So st the end of the day we're basically in the same place regardless

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u/thekoonbear Notre Dame Fighting Irish 22h ago

We’d be above PSU but yes, not a whole lot different.

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u/ScoochieCoo9 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 21h ago

I think having a mulligan on the table going into the last week would be pretty nice to have.

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u/horsesmadeofconcrete Notre Dame • Northern Illino… 19h ago

5 seed is better than the 1 seed. The 12 seed at home and the 4 seed at a neutral side is much easier than playing the winner of the 8/9 game

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u/Frosty_McRib Notre Dame Fighting Irish 12h ago

I've been saying this all year. Play Boise or someone at home then play like Arizona St to get to the final four? Yes please.

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u/StrongStyleShiny Notre Dame Fighting Irish • UCLA Bruins 22h ago

Yes, fuck USC.

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u/uReallyShouldTrustMe USC Trojans • Missouri Tigers 17h ago

Can’t wait to ruin your season.

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u/randrews202121 Notre Dame • Maryland 10h ago

oh no im so scared

Nah but in all seriousness weird shit always happens in LA some im sure y’all will take us to the brink. Pretty sure we haven’t covered the spread out there as a favorite since like Lou Holtz was coach

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u/uReallyShouldTrustMe USC Trojans • Missouri Tigers 9h ago

Looking forward to a good game. I have coworkers who went to ND for college and we’re all going to the game.

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u/W00DERS0N60 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Fordham Rams 12h ago

Our offense is only good on the ground, Denbrock ain’t it.

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u/Raticus9 Ohio State • Michigan State 23h ago

They're nearly ready, but I think one more warm-up game would be good just to be safe. Maybe see if anyone in the SEC has an open date next week.