The Top 50 Iconic Uniforms in Sports: #50

Welcome to this website's off-season sports sartorial content. We are counting down the world's top 50 most iconic sports uniforms. Only current uniforms apply, we are not including one-off or alternate uniforms. Let's stick to the basics. #50 Boston Red Sox In many Major League Baseball uniform lists you may see the Red Sox among [...]

By |2023-12-13T18:53:49-05:00December 14th, 2023|18S Reads|14 Comments

Riley Leonard Transfers to Notre Dame: The Full Scouting Report

After a couple weeks of recruiting and interest from both parties, Notre Dame has officially added quarterback transfer Riley Leonard from Duke on Monday. The rising true senior originally from Fairhope, Alabama on the shores of Mobile Bay had started 21 games for the Blue Devils and looked primed for a big junior year before [...]

By |2023-12-12T10:37:55-05:00December 12th, 2023|Football|71 Comments

What if College Football Walked Away from Minor Bowl Games?

You probably shouldn't listen to me if you enjoy bowl games. For years, I've been pushing the narrative that the bowl games are slowly becoming obsolete and that college football needs to do something about it. Now, things are accelerating far more quickly as we zoom towards the 12-team playoff era and I don't see [...]

By |2023-12-11T08:36:14-05:00December 11th, 2023|Football|53 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: Travis Kelce Was Just In Another Commercial

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Irish safety Xavier Watts won the 2023 Nagurski Trophy. Bo Nix, Michael Penix, Jayden Daniels, and Marvin Harrison are the 2023 Heisman finalists. Daniels won the AP Player of the Year award. Alabama quarterback Tyler Buchner is transferring back to Notre Dame...to [...]

By |2023-12-08T08:30:51-05:00December 8th, 2023|18S Reads|53 Comments

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Who’s to Blame?

I was at my in-laws this past Sunday afternoon having lunch to celebrate my father-in-law's 73rd birthday. As the kids sat down to eat first I was standing in the doorway from the dining room into the living room watching the ESPN unveiling of the final college football rankings. It dragged on and on. Finally, [...]

By |2023-12-05T22:24:39-05:00December 6th, 2023|Football|80 Comments

Regular Season Games (Kinda) Undone: What Does the Bama Handout Mean?

There was no good way to resolve the 4-team College Football Playoff field for 2023 after the perfect sequence of events unfolded to create an impossible choice. Had any of the following happened Saturday - FSU losing to Louisville, Georgia beating Alabama, Texas losing to Oklahoma State or Michigan's bus crashing and forcing Iowa to [...]

By |2023-12-04T17:59:02-05:00December 4th, 2023|18S Reads|191 Comments

2023 Bowl Season: Notre Dame to Face Oregon State in the Sun Bowl

After a banner day for the ACC in which undefeated Florida State got snubbed from the playoffs and the league scrambled for several hours to fill their bowl slots, the Fighting Irish finally landed in El Paso for the post-season. It'll be Notre Dame vs. Oregon State in the legendary Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl. [...]

By |2023-12-03T18:42:10-05:00December 3rd, 2023|Football|61 Comments

Open Portal: Ranking Notre Dame Football’s Transfer Needs (So Far)

The NCAA transfer portal for college football opens up this Monday, December 4th and will remain open all the way through Tuesday, January 2nd. As a reminder, graduate transfers are allowed to enter the transfer portal at any time while players who have their head coach fired or leave the program have a 30-day window [...]

By |2023-12-03T09:12:53-05:00December 3rd, 2023|Football|8 Comments

Top 100 2025 S Ivan Taylor Commits to Notre Dame

You want some good news about the Irish football program? Well boy howdy do we have some for you. Potential five-star safety Ivan Taylor became the second member of Notre Dame's 2025 defensive back class today when he announced his commitment to the Irish. The 6"0", 174-pound Floridian bears a last name that many fans [...]

By |2023-12-01T14:53:02-05:00December 1st, 2023|Football, Recruiting|10 Comments

A Stupidly Early Look at the New 2024 ACC Football Conference

Our weeks-long wait until the bowl game is upon us. For this blog, it's the first step towards pivoting towards off-season content. As I searched for some ideas I got to wondering what the ACC is going to look like in a transformative season for college football in 2024. That's normal, right? Who isn't thinking [...]

By |2023-11-29T10:22:09-05:00November 29th, 2023|Football|58 Comments

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Auburn Left Shaken & Stirred

The regular season is over (except Army-Navy of course) and now we await the concluding championship weekend before the last 4-team playoff, accompanied by the weird bowl system, finishes off this 2023 campaign. Here's the latest 18S Top 20 Poll. 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll RANK TEAM RECORD NEXT 1 Georgia 12-0 vs. Alabama [...]

By |2023-11-27T10:33:56-05:00November 27th, 2023|Football|59 Comments

Sayonara, Pac-12 Network: Stanford Instant Reaction

When this season began, I doubt any Notre Dame fan was too concerned with watching the Pac-12 Network, but this is what you get for losing a couple of games you shouldn't have. Notre Dame sent the Pac-12 Network's football coverage out in predictable fashion Saturday, routing Stanford 56-23, though they took an annoyingly circuitous [...]

By |2023-11-25T23:03:20-05:00November 25th, 2023|18S Reads, Football|1 Comment

Stanford Game Preview: The Bell Tolls for the Pac 12

Some of you may remember that last year I savaged - appropriately, I would say - the Stanford Cardinal in the contemporary game preview post. Stanford came into last year's game 1-4, with the one win coming over FCS Colgate, and allowing 38.5 points per game to FBS opponents. They would finish the season allowing [...]

By |2023-11-24T23:57:17-05:00November 24th, 2023|Football|15 Comments
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