The Independent: A Notre Dame Football Podcast
Hosted by Matt Fortuna and Pete Sampson · The Independent: A Notre Dame Football Podcast
4.8from 639 ratings
- 176
- Episodes
- 89
- Transcribed
- 639
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 452K
- YouTube views
About The Independent: A Notre Dame Football Podcast
The Independent is the essential listen for fans of Fighting Irish football. Pete Sampson of the Athletic and Matt Fortuna of The Inside Zone are back to take you inside the Notre Dame program. With a combined 35 years + of experience on the ND beat, this twice weekly podcast has you covered for everything blue and gold.
- Publisher
- The Independent: A Notre Dame Football Podcast
- Category
- sports
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 21 Aug 2023
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
89 of 176 episodes have a transcript.
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Dusty Dvoracek joins the show to talk Notre Dame ground game and more
4 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Notre Dame's run game comes to life versus UNC
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Notre Dame-North Carolina preview: Can Marcus Freeman’s squad get the best of Bill Belichick’s?
Inside a recent episode
Dusty Dvoracek joins the show to talk Notre Dame ground game and more
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You know, I did want to ask you a big picture about like Notre Dame in the national sort of perspective, because you called Georgia, you called Alabama too. But like before that, you played defensive line at Oklahoma and the pros. So, I mean, you have a much more of a PhD, like take on line play. And you mentioned sort of that gap run scheme. I do think Notre Dame sort of figured some things out. What are we good at? What are we bad at? Let's lean into the good, ditch maybe the bad or de-emphasize it. When a team is a good gap run team, what kind of line is that? What kind of back do they have? […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on The Independent: A Notre Dame Football Podcast
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- Dusty Dvoracek
- Yogi Roth
- Paul Burmeister
- Marcus Freeman
- Tim Murray
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 452,204
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 330 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 309 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100
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- Quality
- 76
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 99
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Matt Fortuna and Pete Sampson host the show. Published by The Independent: A Notre Dame Football Podcast.
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