Frank Vitovitch
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Frankie V Prediction: Notre Dame vs. USC ’17
The long, excruciating bye week is over. It’s game day. Notre Dame and USC are mere hours away from squaring off in a playoff eliminator in the newly…
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Notre Dame 4 Horsemen of the Week: North Carolina ’17
Man did this bye week come at a good time for the Irish and for me. For the Irish it’s going to allow some of the minor bumps…
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Notre Dame Post Game 6-Pack: Irish Need to Heal After Handling Heels
Notre Dame surpassed its win total from 2016 over the weekend with a 33-10 handling of North Carolina on the road. North Carolina hosted the Irish with a…
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Notre Dame Football Highlights: Irish Handle Tarheels 33-10
It wasn’t the prettiest win of the season for Notre Dame, but the Irish went on the road again and beat a Power 5 opponent by more than…
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Frankie V Prediction: Notre Dame v. North Carolina ’17
Notre Dame hits the road this afternoon for the third time this season as they look to improve to 5-1 on the season with an injury riddled North…
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Notre Dame 4 Horsemen of the Week: Miami OH ’17
Notre Dame improved to 4-1 on the season this weekend with a blowout of Miami of Ohio. The Irish raced out to a 45-14 halftime lead before coasting…
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Notre Dame Post Game 6-Pack: What The Heck Did We Just Watch Edition?
Notre Dame improved to 4-1 on the season on Saturday with their third straight victory of 20 or more points with a 52-17 victory over the Miami of…
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Notre Dame Football Highlights: Irish Fly By RedHawks 52-17
Notre Dame won it’s 4th game of September on Saturday evening after winning just four games all of 2016. The Irish were at times dominating while uneven at…
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Frankie V’s Prediction: Notre Dame vs. Miami Ohio ’17
Coming off back to back road wins of 20 points or more for the first time in more than 20 years, Notre Dame returns home this evening to…
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Notre Dame 4 Horsemen of the Week: Michigan State ’17
Notre Dame put a hurting on Michigan State over the weekend. The Irish dominated Michigan State from start to finish in one of the best performances we’ve seen…
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Watch Brian Kelly, Notre Dame Players Wild Locker Room Celebration
Saturday’s big win over Michigan State clearly meant a lot to Brian Kelly and his players. In the video below you can see Kelly dancing and getting pretty…
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Notre Dame Football Highlights: Irish Blowout Sparty 38-18
Notre Dame went into Spartan Stadium last night and made short work of Michigan State. The Irish led throughout the game and even with a late touchdown and…
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Post Game 6-Pack: Notre Dame Routs Michigan State in Their House
Well now, who saw a Notre Dame blowout of Michigan State in Spartan Stadium coming? That is what happened this evening as Notre Dame marched into East Lansing…
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Frankie V’s Prediction: Notre Dame v. Michigan State ’17
Notre Dame hits the road for second week in a row looking to improve to 3-1 and exorcise a bunch of demons tonight in East Lansing. Can they…
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Early Returns on New Notre Dame Defense Promising
It’s only been three games for Mike Elko as the defensive coordinator for Notre Dame, but the early returns are already promising. Elko inherited a unit that had…
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Notre Dame Football Still In Search of Identity 3 Games, 8 Years In
The 2017 Notre Dame Fighting Irish are very much a microcosm of the Brian Kelly era. Three games into the season – Brian Kelly’s 8th at Notre Dame…
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Notre Dame 4 Horsemen of the Week: Boston College ’17
Notre Dame turned in a dominant rushing performance while its passing game struggled and its defense played a fairly vanilla game. The result was a 49-20 victory that…
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Notre Dame Football Post Game 6-Pack: 29 Point Wins Should be Fun
Notre Dame improved to 2-1 on the season on Saturday with a 49-20 victory over Boston College in a game that saw Notre Dame have some historic rushing…
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Notre Dame Football Highlights: Irish Run to 49-20 Victory over Boston College
Boston College gave Notre Dame a fight for two quarters on Saturday afternoon, but when all was said and done, Notre Dame racked up 515 yards on the…
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Frankie V’s Prediction: Notre Dame v. Boston College ’17
Notre Dame looks to get back in the win column this weekend with a trip to Boston College to take on the Eagles in the Holy War –…
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Notre Dame Football Depth Chart: Boston College 2017
Notre Dame released its weekly depth chart on Tuesday and there were a few changes, but not many. Dexter Williams is still on it, but as we learned…
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Post Game 6 Pack: Notre Dame Football Comes Up Short, Fans Sell Out
It’s been just about 24 hours now since any slim hope that Notre Dame fans were holding on to for an undefeated season slipped away in just the…
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Notre Dame – Boston College Game Start Time Moved
Notre Dame is going to have a few more hours than originally thought to try to get back in the win column this weekend. The Notre Dame –…
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Notre Dame 4 Horsemen of the Week: Georgia 2017
Notre Dame lost an old fashioned defensive slugfest last night to the Georgia Bulldogs. The Irish’s highly touted offensive line got dominated by the Georgia front seven while…
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Notre Dame Football Highlights: Irish Fall Flat Against Georgia
Notre Dame fell flat in a sea of red clad Georgia fans inside the renovated Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday night. The Irish scored five times on the…
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Frankie V’s Prediction: Notre Dame v. Georgia ’17
Notre Dame faces their biggest early season challenge of the year this weekend with #15 ranked Georgia coming to town to take on the #24 ranked Fighting Irish.…
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High Risk, High Reward for Notre Dame Recruiting Mega Weekends
Here we are again. Huge, prime time match for Notre Dame against a marquee opponent and Notre Dame has a group of elite recruits lined up for official…
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Huge Recruiting Weekend on Tap for Notre Dame for Georgia Game
Notre Dame will be hosting one of their most marquee opponents of the season this weekend when the Georgia Bulldogs come to town, but that’s not all they…
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The Irish Express: The New Gold Standard in Getting to Notre Dame from Chicago
Consider this a public service announcement. If you need to get from Chicago to South Bend for gameday and want to tailgate without any of the stresses of packing…
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2017 Georgia Game: Notre Dame Depth Chart
Not a whole heck of a lot of movement on the depth chart this week for Notre Dame as they prepare for Georgia. In fact the only change…
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Notre Dame Opens As Nearly Touchdown Favorite Over Georgia
Now that we know that Jacob Eason will not be suiting up for Georgia when the Bulldogs make their first ever trip to Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday,…
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A Perfect Opener for Notre Dame Football?
Notre Dame got its 2017 football season off to a great start on Saturday with a 49-16 victory over the defending AAC champion Temple Owls. The Irish ran…
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Notre Dame Football 4 Horsemen of the Week: Temple 2017
There were a lot of stars in yesterday’s 33 point win over Temple to start the 2017 season. Notre Dame’s ground game ate up the Temple defensive front…
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Notre Dame Football: Temple Game Post Game 6-Pack
Well now, sometimes being wrong is really awesome. I thought the Notre Dame offense would be a bit sluggish out of the gates until it got its timing…
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Notre Dame Football Highlights: Irish Run All Over Temple
Notre Dame kicked off the 2017 season on Saturday afternoon with some in new old fashion style by running for 422 yards against a Temple defense that is…
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Frankie V’s Prediction: Notre Dame v. Temple 2017
We are almost there everybody. Tomorrow is gameday. One of the longest, most interesting off-seasons in recent Notre Dame football memory comes to a close and we can…
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Never Trust a Depth Chart: Thoughts on Notre Dame’s 1st Depth Chart
Notre Dame released its first dept chart of the season on Tuesday and we posted it earlier like we plan on doing each week there is a new…
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2017 Temple Game: Notre Dame Depth Chart
Notre Dame released its first official depth chart of the season on Tuesday as the Irish prepare to take on the Temple Owls in the 2017 season opener.…
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8 Notre Dame Football Players We Didn’t Talk About Enough
With Notre Dame set to open the season in just a few days, I realized there were a number of players who didn’t get much ink this summer…
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On the Record: Predicting Notre Dame Football’s 2017 Record
I hate preseason predictions to be honest. That said, they still make for good debate and it is fun to go back in November and look at how…
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Former Notre Dame QB Deshone Kizer Named Browns Starter
As Notre Dame prepares to start the 2017 season with a new starting quarterback, former Irish starter Deshone Kizer will be preparing to make his first career NFL…
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The Curious Case of Notre Dame’s Kevin Stepherson
One of the biggest looming questions facing Notre Dame football with the Irish just a little over a week out from the season opener is the case of…
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2017 Notre Dame Coaching Staff
During the 2017 off-season, Brian Kelly nearly completely revamped his coaching staff with new offensive and defensive coordinators as part of five new assistant coaches. Kelly also completely…
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Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players in 2017: #1-5
5.) Josh Adams – Jr, RB Highest Ranking: 3; Lowest Ranking: 6 Even before he was named a captain over the weekend, Josh Adams was showing signs of…
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Optimism Slowly Building Around Notre Dame Defense
A funny thing has been happening over the last couple of weeks around the 2017 Fighting Irish. Camp report after camp report has spoken very positively of the…
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Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players in 2017: #6-10
We’ve reached the top 10 of countdown of the Top 25 Notre Dame football players for 2017 and have just one more installment left after today. Today’s set…
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Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players in 2017: #11-15
Our countdown of the top 25 players on the Notre Dame football roster for 2017 continues today with the players ranked 11th-15th. As we inch towards the top…
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Brian Kelly Names 6 Notre Dame Freshman ‘Off The Bubble’
With less than two weeks to go until the 2017 season kicks off for Notre Dame, Brian Kelly was asked on Sunday about which freshmen were still on…
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Brian Kelly Restructures Notre Dame Football Recruiting Staff
Following Notre Dame’s open practice which it referred to as the “New and Gold” game inside Notre Dame Stadium on Sunday, Brian Kelly met with the media. In…
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Notre Dame Football Needs a Yoon Boom in 2017
A lot has to happen this fall for Notre Dame to rebound from last year’s 4-8 debacle. One player specifically can go a long way towards helping the…