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

The Weekly Rambler: The Most Targeted Targeting

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Audric Estime was not named a Doak Walker finalist WTF? The latest College Football Playoff rankings feature a top 4 of Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan with Washington now ahead of Florida State. Notre Dame lands in at no. 18 this week. Florida [...]

By |2023-11-22T09:11:18-05:00November 22nd, 2023|18S Reads|23 Comments

Wake Forest Game Review: A Satisfying Blowout

Notre Dame came into this Saturday's game against Wake Forest as heavy favorites on Senior Day and after a brief struggle to find momentum eventually put things in cruise control for an easy victory. Back-to-back seasons of at least 8 wins: clinched for Marcus Freeman. The Irish put together a very solid day on offense [...]

By |2023-11-18T22:48:49-05:00November 18th, 2023|Football|45 Comments

Wake Forest Game Preview: Anyone Talking About This?

The tradition of ACC continues with another visit from Wake Forest, feel the excitement emanating from this article. At one point, this looked like an interesting matchup as Sam Hartman faces his old team but the recent struggles by both the Irish and Demon Deacons put a bit of a downer on this Senior Day [...]

By |2023-11-16T22:39:36-05:00November 17th, 2023|Football|8 Comments

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Making Your Own Adversity

Week 11 of the college football season brought us a near upset for Virginia, the top Dawgs asserting their dominance, Miami dropping their 4th ACC game, Washington holding serve at home, and much more including Michigan's loathing redemption tour exiting Happy Valley without a loss. As always, you can't depend on Penn State to pull [...]

By |2023-11-14T09:53:21-05:00November 14th, 2023|Football|16 Comments
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