Green Bay Packers financial statements show NFL national revenue distribution was $347 million for FY21. The Stanford-USC Game Butterfly Effect: How one firing sparked nearly 250 coaching changes College football’s coaching carousel taught us no job is too good to leave, among other lessons College football independents preview: Notre Dame, BYU, Army burning questions and top players Under Brian Kelly, LSU hopes a top-to-bottom reset leads to stability and success College football can’t be killed, but it can be changed for the worse SEC wants to end expansion race, stay at 16 teams Notre Dame targeting $75 million annual media rights payout in quest to remain independent Would Notre Dame actually consider relinquishing its historic independent status? Notre Dame Football PR Team July 14, 2022 Evans is probable to return to play later this season. Irish tight end Mitchell Evans had surgery to repair his fifth metatarsal July 14, after being injured during summer offseason training. 18 Steve Angeli, freshman QB, Blue-Gold Game star

16 Brandon Joseph, Northwestern transfer, preseason All-American, starting safety 15 Tobias Merriweather, freshman receiver, forever a memorable recruitment 14 Bryce McFerson, freshman punter facing a Harvard challenge 13 Gi’Bran Payne, freshman running back, late recruit A third 4-star WR commitment, Jaden Greathouse, elevates class of 2023 from good to Great Time is Notre Dame’s ally, for now, in independence as Big Ten and SEC grow The new turf installation at Notre Dame Stadium is just about finished. Going 9-3 is hardly something to scoff at, and it would certainly reward those who back Notre Dame in this conversation, but the only quality win among those nine would likely be an independent BYU in a neutral site game, not quite something Irish fans are likely to hang their proverbial hats on. If Freeman goes 0-3 against Ohio State, Clemson and USC, he may need the inverse of the Fiesta Bowl faceplant to redeem the season. Take that 0.22 fewer expected wins, and even if including that BYU bump, that projected 8.817 expected wins falls enough to justify rounding down to an Over/Under of 8.5. Instead, Notre Dame is a field-goal underdog to both, an implied win probability of about 39 percent. For the season finale in Los Angeles, nothing could be said but, “Who knows about USC.” Both of those were viewed as toss-ups with 50 percent win probabilities. If anything, obviously, that difference would boost the Irish win total.īut not when the bookmakers look at contests against Clemson and USC as more of uphill climbs than our May ponderings did. Turn that spread into a win probability and it equals approximately 73.1 percent, not that much of a difference from that 66.7 percent. Vegas - the sportsbooks, not the host site for this context - largely agrees, with Notre Dame currently a 6.5-point favorite. Yours truly expected the Irish to be “favored slightly” and offered up a 66.7 percent probability of an Irish victory for win totals purposes. Then there is BYU, a neutral site game (Las Vegas) in early October. The Irish are 14.5-point underdogs in the season opener at Ohio State in 40 days, and in eight of the other 11 games, Notre Dame is or will be a healthy favorite. Again, that is understandable, but pinpointing the difference in opinion sheds some light on widely-held expectations for Notre Dame in 2022.

PointsBet leans as far into that 9-3 likelihood as any widely-accessible sportsbook, but it does not come off the 8.5 mark. The odds skew toward the Over - increasingly so since first checking in on them in early July - suggesting it is more likely Marcus Freeman’s debut season as a head coach will feature a 9-3 regular season than an 8-4 showing. Clearly, gamblers agree with the bookmakers. Win totals have been on the market for more than a month now, and the initial 8.5 figure for the Irish has not wavered. To be precise, this space’s exact expected wins was 8.817, hence rounding up to 9.0. This space staked its 2022 projection of Notre Dame’s win total Over/Under at 9.0, though couching it with “8.5 would be understandable.” And the bookmakers settled on that latter number. The difference is slight, but it is a disagreement, nonetheless.

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