Rally, sons of Notre Dame…
It’s just about time for football season, folks. Here’s the schedule for the 2006 campaign:
- 9/2 - At Georgia Tech
- 9/9 - Penn State
- 9/16 - Michigan
- 9/23 - at Michigan State
- 9/30 - Purdue
- 10/7 - Stanford
- 10/21 - UCLA
- 10/28 - at Navy
- 11/4 - North Carolina
- 11/11 - at Air Force
- 11/18 - Army
- 11/25 - at USC
Here are some excellent resources for following the Irish.
- The House of Twelve: a blog by a bunch of my buddies from Notre Dame, including a former Observer sports editor.
- FanBlogs’ Notre Dame Blog: a quick roundup of Irish news stories.
- Blue-Gray Sky: Another great Irish football blog.
- The Rankings: AP and Coaches’ polls.
- ESPN Clubhouse: Roster, news, photos, standings, all that stuff.
By the way, here’s the Notre Dame Victory March as performed by the Dixieland Ramblers. Very New Orleans sounding, but without the gunfire and failed welfare state.
GO BLUE!
Two potential losses on that schedule:
Penn State (who will be better than everyone thinks) and USC (who still “out-talents” the Irish)
That is IF the Golden Domers get past Georgia Tech in the first game of the season.
Upset alert!!!
Still, I see them finishing the season 11-1 and making a BCS bowl, because the rules are such that its hard for Notre Dame NOT to make a BCS bowl.
Matt,
After our influx of residents into Houston, I figured gunfire and wailing would be a welcomed sound.
You’ve got a point there, Sedosi. Georgia Tech isn’t that great of a team — they’re very inconsistent. But with that inconsistency comes the ability to blow up on any given Saturday and upset a much better team. Obviously, I hope that won’t happen this week, though I hope it happens every other week of the season.
Weis knows this as much as you and I do, and I’m sure he’s told his boys to be on guard for that sort of thing.
I agree, the Irish will make a BCS bowl. But I have to take exception with your idea that it’s because “the rules are such that its hard for Notre Dame NOT to make a BCS bowl.”
Look at the Irish schedule. We’ve got #19 Penn State, #14 Michigan, and we finish up with USC. The rest of the schedule isn’t a cakewalk, either — Michigan State, Stanford, UCLA. It’s a pretty tough schedule, and I’m confident that the Irish would rate a BCS bowl even if they played by the rules of lesser programs.
Federico, I have two points.
1. Kiss my ass.
2. Take your countrymen back to their wretched below-sea-level hellhole where they can’t kill me and my loved ones.