One more weekend and we're into the final month of the regular season. While the future 24-team playoff is on the horizon, this might be the last (somewhat) normal regular season we'll see in these final weeks of 2026. Cherish them, if you can. This Saturday we have a bunch of periphery matchups on Halloween. [...]
Honestly, I could just leave it at the title, but you guys come here for more than just snappy headlines, so let's go over my philosophical objections to the colossally dumb 24-team College Football Playoff that reportedly is all but locked in for 2027, and also why the new format probably helps Notre Dame. Why [...]
Welcome back to a long overdue installment of Five Wide Fullbacks! This is the first 5WF I've done in 10 months, whoops. I guess time flies when you're having fun. Well, I guess things haven't been too fun as of late. In today's post we'll talk about good and bad for UTEP, the coaching hot [...]
The losses keep piling up for the nation's top teams and it's not likely to stop anytime soon. We should've seen the let down coming from BYU, meanwhile Texas Tech, Houston, Tennessee, Iowa, and USC also lost on the road during week 8 of college football. 18 Stripes Top 20 Ranking RANK TEAM RECORD [...]
It's cheeseburger time for Notre Dame as we reflect upon our sins and costly mistakes leading to the loss at BYU last Saturday night. With lots if introspection going on in South Bend the rest of the country marches on for the another week of football. It's not a great week, though. Winter is coming [...]
It's been a few months since our last update back in the middle of the summer. Since then, the 2027 class has been wrapped up (unofficially, but it appears to be sewn up) and we're slowly turning our attention to the 2028 cycle. Entering Notre Dame's bye week we have a full assessment of the [...]
Week 7 provided carnage with half of the top 10 losing games, including our beloved and bewildering Fighting Irish. It was a tough week for a lot of programs with many looking to regroup as we inch closer to Halloween and the last month of the regular season. For their part, Notre Dame will be [...]
For all the talk of Leave No Doubt, for all the talk that things had changed, the first game of Notre Dame's two-game season was basically a replay of the 2025 Notre Dame team's first game of what ended up amounting to a two-game season. BYU defeated Notre Dame 28-24 in a game that, outside [...]
This one has been circled on the calendar all year. Now it's here and we have a pair of top 10 teams who meet on the field as unbeatens. The question many Irish fans are asking, and one we'll tackle in the preview today, is how good are the BYU Cougars? They opened with a [...]
I've been ragging on the regular season a lot on this website. We're still getting ourselves a nice treat for week 7 with a loaded lineup of great games across the country. We have a massive battle in the Big Ten to kick Saturday off while Notre Dame will get plenty of the spotlight for [...]
A bunch of thoughts about Notre Dame football after the first 6 games of the season… You can read the Q1 report HERE. Starting the season 6-0 is exactly where Notre Dame expected to be, now the real campaign begins. Deep in our hearts we know there are two major tests for this 2026 season. [...]
The Red River Rivalry delivered, and so did Alabama vs. Georgia. Nebraska let Indiana slip away, Kentucky keeps going for two, UCLA keeps winning, and Florida has thrown away all of its good will from a couple weeks ago. All of this and more from the action in week 6 of college football. Let's get [...]
Delayed gratification. Unit Strength. The Golden Standard. Leave No Doubt. And now, Clean Your Plate. Marcus Freeman has come up with a bunch of kinda corny catchphrases in his time at Notre Dame. Clean Your Plate, in case it hasn't been made clear yet, means take advantage of your opportunities when they come. If you [...]
No one wanted to pick up this game preview during the off-season, and with good reason! Fine, I'll do it. There are still whispers of aspirational peers. West Coast return games to Palo Alto to finish the regular season for "recruiting purposes" and definitely not hobnobbing with the academia of Leland Stanford Junior University. One [...]
We have quality games on tap this weekend, but not a whole lot of them. A bunch are on the periphery of could-be-decent matchups for week 6 but didn't make the cut for my weekly picks. I'm looking at Iowa State (+10.5) at BYU, USC (+1.5) at Penn State, and Boise State (-6.5) at Fresno [...]
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