Podcast: Notre Dame 2021 Season Props, Predictions, and a Whole Lot More with Special Guest Ashton Pollard
The Single High Notre Dame football podcast is back in action this week with our 6th episode. We’re really doing this folks. So far we’re keeping up with doing at least one new pod a week and this week’s is pretty action-packed. We were joined by Ashton Pollard, a journalism student at Northwestern who has also previously written for Sons of Saturday. The three of us ran through a lot of predictions and over/unders for the 2021 Notre Dame football season.
- Our earliest memories of Notre Dame football
- The one Notre Dame loss that actually led me to buying a dog because I was that upset
- Who will lead Notre Dame in receptions, receiving yards, tackles, sacks, and more?
- Which game has the biggest trap potential?
- Who on the 2021 roster will surprise the most?
- Will Kevin Austin play a full season?
- Who will score more touchdowns this year – Audric Estime or Kyle Hamilton?
- Who makes the playoffs this year and who are the Heisman finalists?
All of the props and scenarios were provided to us by our friends at One Foot Down who ran through the same list on their podcast already so that we can all look back at how wrong we were at the end of the season.
Frank Vitovitch has been Co-Owner and Editor in Chief of UHND.com since joining forces with Kyle Flavin in 1999. Since that time, he has written over 2,000 articles covering Notre Dame football, recruiting, and basketball. He also works with all staff and external writers on all articles published on UHND.com. Frank's love for Notre Dame football started at a young age watching Rocket Ismail give opposing coaches ulcers in the late 1980's. By day Frank works in marketing and holds a degree in Digital Media from Drexel University. Frank's work has been cited by online/print editions of NBC Sports, ESPN, and Sports Illustrated and has been quoted on air by ESPN's Collin Cowherd. He's conducted interviews with Notre Dame legends Rocket Ismail, Randy Kinder, Lee Becton, Reggie Brooks, Michael Stonebreaker, and Ned Bolcar among others over his 20+ years of covering Notre Dame football. He's also been published in the print edition of USA Today Sports Weekly and the USA Today College Football Preview multiple times. Other Published Works/Citations for Frank Three Reasons Notre Dame Will Beat Alabama - USA Today Notre Dame Suspends WR Kevin Stepherson, RB C.J. Holmes Indefinitely - Bleacher Report Notre Dame / Ohio State Fiesta Bowl Preview - Eleven Warriors Brace Yourself: The Fighting Irish are Relevant Again - Sports on Earth Interviews with the Enemy: A Q&A with Frank Vitovitch of UHND - Yahoo! Sports Five Good Minutes: Notre Dame Football Preview With UHND.com - BC Interruption Vicious Electronic Questioning with UHND - MGO Blog
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This year we will find out if Notre Dame can “reload” like the other top 5 teams do every year. I just cannot make a prediction for this year because there are way too many unknowns…a new defensive coordinator, a new QB, and a new offensive line…that’s a long row to hoe, and it starts with what should be a tough road game at Florida State. An opening game win over Notre Dame is, after all, exactly what that program needs…and if our offense is not smooth, watch out. P.S: I was listening to some commentators speculating about moving Clemson and another top ACC team into the SEC.
I hope it doesn’t happen before we go to a larger number of playoff teams. Frankly, I just don’t want to hear the cries for three, or even four SEC teams making the playoffs, much less the whining and pouting when the SEC only gets one or two of the four spots. Three teams from the SEC plus Notre Dame or Ohio State or Oklahoma is what you would be looking at for a playoff…and that is just plain WRONG.
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Oklahoma and Texas are looking to head into the SEC as well.
Selecting ND as a predictable roadkill sacrificial lamb to any of the worthy playoff teams is “plain wrong”. And yet…..
The SEC is now Div. 1 college football.
Everyone else just got relegated.
I would like to see Notredames future schedules if they remain an independent to be like this years schedule. A good schedule without the elite powerhouses on it
To me opening up at Ohio State is not smart scheduling. Lose that game and even if Notredame magically runs the table you will not likely get in the playoffs. The pattern of every playoff is 2 to 3 of the teams undefeated along with 1 or 2 1 loss teams. Notredame imo will not get in over a 1 loss conference champion or a 1 loss sec, big ten, big 12 Acc team that doesn’t win its coference I would like to see Notredame drop these neutral site games and replace them with an easy opponent home game the first game of every season. Right now I’m okay with the 5 acc games. USC and Navy every year is fine. I personally would like to see Notredame drop Stanford and play Purdue every year. In state rival and Notredame has a much longer history with Purdue than Stanford. Also along with the 5 Acc games and USC, Navy and Stanford/Purdue I would like too see Notredame in the other 4 games play teams they have never played before or haven’t played in a long time. For example , Oklahoma State,Kansas State,Wesr Virginia,Tennessee , Mississippi Mississippi State, Oregon Auburn etc