The Irish turned up the heat through the middle part of the schedule, and it's showing on a big winning streak.

While it wasn’t the way that defensive end Jordan Botelho thought his senior season would go, the good news is that the Notre Dame starter is expected to come back for one more season as head coach Marcus Freeman announced on Monday.

It will inform the country what the group's way of thinking is. We will finally get an idea of what this committee values and what it penalizes. When it comes to Notre Dame specifically, it's already an outlier due to its independent status and bizarre resume which includes perhaps the worst loss of any team being considered for the 12-team field,

Notre Dame football head coach Marcus Freeman spoke to the media on Monday. It was the first time in over a week following the team’s second bye week of the season. The main topics of conversation were centered around recapping the victory over Navy,