Pod of Gold: Previewing Notre Dame opener against Wisconsin

Week One of college football is here. It's time for Notre Dame football to (finally) play an actual game. Against Wisconsin. In Green Bay. At Lambeau Field. The Tribune's Mike Berardino, Tom Noie and Austin Hough discuss the Notre Dame news of the week (captains named, depth chart released), before…

Pod of Gold: Notre Dame football focus turns to Wisconsin prep

Notre Dame football is back, and so is the Pod of Gold to discuss everything Notre Dame football every Wednesday during what might be a very loooooooong college football season. Tribune writers Mike Berardino, Tom Noie and Austin Hough discuss what we learned (if anything) from our fall camp viewi…

Pod of Gold: 2026 Notre Dame spring football thoughts

Spring has sprung, or something like that, for Notre Dame football, which is back on the practice field doing football stuff for the first time since the 2025 season ended at Stanford over Thanksgiving weekend. There's talent all over a deep returning roster, which includes quarterback CJ Carr. Th…

Pod of Gold: Dissecting and discussing Marcus Freeman's meeting with the media

He has spoken. It's been more than a minute since we last heard from Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman, so there was no shortage of topics to talk on when he stepped to the front of the Notre Dame Stadium interview room on Wednesday, January 15. Freeman talked of the end (for now) of the U…

Pod of Gold: Making sense of the end of Notre Dame football season

We'll try, but we may mirror the College Football Playoff selection committee and fail miserably. In our latest Pod of Gold, we attempt to make sense that like that, the Notre Dame football season for 2025 is officially over. No College Football Playoff run to a possible national championship. No …

Pod of Gold: Notre Dame football will make the College Football Playoff, right?

We're done. With the regular season. With the College Football Playoff rankings shows over those four Tuesday nights in November and December. All that's left is Championship Saturday and Selection Sunday. What does that mean for projected No. 10 seed Notre Dame? Are the Irish comfortably in the …

Listen: The ACC antagonism and former SMU standout Craig James on the Irish

We start this edition of Pod of Gold wondering exactly what's wrong with the Atlantic Coast Conference. Specifically, what the league has against Notre Dame of late with its "Team A vs. Team B" comparison nonsense, and then deciding that, yeah, it's a good idea for the game at Stanford to kick at 1…

Listen: Reviewing Navy, previewing Pitt and Former Notre Dame OL Josh Lugg

We're Notre Dame football heavy again in our latest Pod of Gold. The second College Football Playoff rankings are out, so what do they mean for Notre Dame? We review the Navy win, preview Saturday's game at Pittsburgh and spend some time with former Notre Dame offensive lineman Josh Lugg. What do …

Talking College Football Playoff seeding, Boston College review, Navy preview

If it's November, it means it's time for the College Football Playoff rankings roulette to begin. What do the guys think of Notre Dame opening at No. 10? Good? Bad? Perfect? We recap the sluggish win over Boston College, which didn't play like a 1-7 team and preview Saturday's prime-time matchup wi…

Pod of Gold: Previewing Boston College and assessing the Notre Dame home stretch

Notre Dame football is back from an off week and right into a Final Five stretch to close the regular season. We preview (kind of) Boston College, review (kind of) the win over USC and debate several additional topics, including what the Irish need to improve on to stay College Football Playoff wor…