Ultimate Notre Dame Football Weekend Guide
Jessica Smetana joins to lay out tips and tricks on how to approach a Notre Dame football weekend. How to get there, where to stay, campus s...
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A conversation about Fighting Irish football and basketball. An audio supplement to the Rakes Report newsletter, available at www.tinyletter.com/rakesreport. Hosted by Chris Wilson.
Rakes Report: A Notre Dame podcast Podcast Guide
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20 of 360 episodesThe 2026 Notre Dame Football All-American Draft
Jessica Smetana and Sam Werner join to discuss which players on the 2026 Fighting Irish roster have the best chance of earning All-American...
Green Flags and Red Flags for College Football Contenders + Notre Dame/USC Rivalry Blamemeter
Jessica Smetana and the Split Zone Duo podcast's Alex Kirshner join to discuss the preseason signs teams might live up to their expectations...
Why So Many People Involved with College Football Seem to Hate College Football + How a Program Breaks Bad
Lucy Rohden (CFBLucy on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok) joins to discuss why so many people running and covering college football seem to hat...
What's Powering Notre Dame's Recruiting Surge + How the Fighting Irish Stack Up to Other Title Contenders
Irish Sports Daily's Jamie Uyeyama joins to discuss his recent visit to campus for Irish Invasion and how recruiting has continued to improv...
The Arguments for College Football Playoff Expansion Aren't Getting Better + The Greatness of Hannah Hidalgo & Irish in the WNBA Check-in
Jessica Smetana joins to break down the latest arguments for and against expansion to a 24-team college football playoff, including some Mik...
2026 College Football Offseason Respect Index
Mega Memorial Day Weekend Episode. Jessica Smetana and the Spreadsheets & Tailgates newsletter's Michael Bryan join to take a look at what p...
Attempting to Understand Notre Dame's Pivot to Supporting a 24-Team College Football Playoff
Sam Werner joins to discuss/vent about/analyze the growing support for a 24-team college football playoff field, including — in a twist — fr...
Putting a Bow on Notre Dame Spring Football Practice + TV Club: The Pitt Season 2
Jessica Smetana joins to discuss some lessons learned and questions still pending after Blue-Gold weekend and the draft. Then (34:45) the Re...
2026 Blue-Gold Game Review + NFL Draft
Alex Herrmann of Notre Dame, Our Blogger joins to discuss Notre Dame football's spring game and where the team stands after this set of prac...
Takeaways from Notre Dame Football's Most Important Spring Practice + Loading Up for Hannah Hidalgo's Last Ride
Blue and Gold's Eric Hansen joins to discuss what he saw at the Fighting Irish's jersey scrimmage over the weekend, including the new-look o...
What We've Learned About the 2026 Notre Dame Football Team So Far This Spring + Shrewsberry Era on Fumes
A Very Brief Survey on Notre Dame Athletics: https://forms.gle/FE21DzPdV1dw4m5A9 Irish Sports Daily's Jamie Uyeyma joins to break down what...
Instant Reaction: Notre Dame 67 Vanderbilt 64
Jessica Smetana joins to discuss how a Hannah Hidalgo all-time masterclass performance powered Niele Ivey's Fighting Irish into the Elite Ei...
Instant Reaction: Notre Dame 83 Ohio State 73
Jessica Smetana and Paul Coletti of the Irish Alert newsletter join to break down the Fighting Irish going into Columbus and coming out with...
2026 March Madness Preview
Happy basketball! Paul Coletti of the Irish Alert newsletter joins to preview Notre Dame's first-round matchup against Fairfield, peek ahead...
Where is Jeremiyah Love Getting Drafted? + Movie Club: 2026 Oscar Preview
Jessica Smetana joins to take an updated look at where Notre Dame players could go in next month's NFL Draft following the start of free age...
A Dream of Notre Dame Spring Practice 2026 + TV Club: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Irish Sports Daily's Jamie Uyeyama joins to discuss some questions that could be at least partially answered by the end of spring practice....
Notre Dame's New Defensive Assistants + A Review of the 2025 FBS Coaching Hires
Jessica Smetana joins for a supersized episode. First, we run through the news on Aaron Henry and Brian Jean-Mary reportedly being added to...
A Diagnosis of What's Ailing Notre Dame Basketball
The Athletic's Sabreena Merchant joins to discuss what is hopefully a blip season for the Fighting Irish women's team, including praise for...
What's In and What's Out in 2026 for Notre Dame, College Football and Beyond
Jessica Smetana joins to lay out our list analyzing, projecting and recommending the trends for the new year now that the national champions...