​Just line it up in any ACE formation and run the speed option for maximum success.Much has been made about the new NCAA “5 for 5” rule and the resulting effect of keeping 26 year old players from playing college football. Since the transfer portal came into play, programs that have been able to get older overnight generally find more success in the next season. Even before the portal, teams like Stanford were good for a number of years because they operated under the mantra of “get old and stay old”.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementI say all of that, and Notre Dame is one of the favorites to win the national championship while being one of the youngest teams in the entire country. The Irish rank 126 in age with an average of 19.97. For comparison, Ohio State is 128 (19.95) and Texas is 134 (19.86). The oldest Power Four team is Oklahoma State at 9 (20.74).Notre Dame is set to do another media blitz in New York City and simultaneously piss off every smooth brained JOIN A CONFERENCE boot licker in the process.Tommy Tuberville is nothing but the embodiment of every “idiot former coach turned politician” in every story that needs one. I’m just waiting for his presidential run with Jonah Ryan in a few years.It’s hard to imagine a conference full of incredible institutions of higher learning is so incredibly bad at making things make sense. It’s harder to imagine that Notre Dame continues to support them… and yet here we are.Here at OFD, we have close ties to a number of MAC programs, and we love MACtion. You should too, and you should read up on the conference for 2026.Greg McElroy has a scenario where a 10-2 Notre Dame team still makes the college football playoff. I completely disagree for two reasons:AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementNotre Dame isn’t losing a game this year and fiction is in a different aisle.They will punish ND at the drop of a hat after the fuss from last year.Leonard Moore is the best cornerback in college football, and he’s also a really good human being. This use of NIL money incredibly kind-hearted.I’m glad I’m not the only one out there giving Gray his props.I’m really excited to see Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa back out on the football field this year, and it could be one of those generational type of seasons from a LB.The entire Michigan story has been coming out and it just gets worse and worse.My dad’s Notre Dame teams won national championships in 1964, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1973, and 1977 before I was born in 1978. So… whose dad is watching what?