The first College Football Playoff Rankings were released this past Tuesday night and place Notre Dame 10th nationally--the same spot the Irish fall in the current AP Poll, by the way. With the assumption that Oregon, Georgia, Miami, and BYU win their respective conferences we would see Notre Dame traveling to Happy Valley in late [...]
With advanced stats recaps on vacation the last few weeks, we have some catching up to do! With the calendar turning toward November and the playoff picture beginning to take shape, let's check on in Notre Dame's season-long advanced stats and what strengths and weaknesses could fuel or doom a 12-team playoff run. Offensive Profile [...]
With Notre Dame coming off a bye week and no game review for our readers I've decided to dive into some hard-hitting journalism instead. Who wants to talk about college football score bugs!? I'm a student of graphic design (I'm really not) and decided to rank all of the current network score bugs that are [...]
It was another fun weekend for Notre Dame to sit back and watch some carnage. Three teams fell from the ranks of the unbeaten re-shaping the 12-team playoff picture as the first rankings from the committee are set to come out this Tuesday evening. Here's the latest 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: 18 Stripes Top [...]
We don't have a whole lot going on in the Big 12 this weekend but some important games are taking place in the other 3 power conferences. We'll also see Boise State put to the test on Friday in a game that could be a bit tricky. First, a quick look at last week's bets: [...]
After two straight 20-loss seasons that saw the Mike Brey era come to a close and the Micah Shrewsberry era get off to a predictably difficult start, it feels like a long time since there was a sustained Era of Good Feelings that Irish men’s hoops fans could enjoy. With a new season about to [...]
We are 52 days away from the first game of the new 12-team College Football Playoff kicking off on ABC on a primetime Friday 8:00 PM ET time slot. We are only a week away from the first College Football Playoff top 25 rankings being released next week on Tuesday, November 5th at 7 PM [...]
Week 9 was marked largely by comfortable wins and blowouts throughout the nation, although don't tell that to Texas, Kansas State, Ohio State, Boise State, and SMU. With Halloween coming this week we are leaving October behind and gearing up for the final month of the 2024 college football season. Here's the latest 18 Stripes [...]
Any fears of a tight game against the undefeated Naval Academy quickly dissipated on Saturday afternoon. In front of a crowd of over 76,000 in MetLife Stadium, the Fighting Irish built an early lead and then sealed a blowout after buckets of turnovers and mistakes doomed the Midshipmen for their first loss in 2024. Let's [...]
In the preview article for this one, our own Brendan called out Navy's ability to avoid turnovers, concluding it was partially them being really good at it and partially dumb luck. Both of those things turned in a huge way Saturday, and because of it Notre Dame was never threatened in a 51-14 blowout of [...]
Notre Dame returns to the Meadowlands in northern New Jersey tomorrow to face a resurgent Navy program that's ranked for the first time since the end of the 2019 season. This is also only the third time since 1958 that both teams have entered the game ranked; the other two games were in 1978, when [...]
Michigan lost last week so it's always a terrific time of year when we pair that with a Notre Dame victory. Coming up this week we have an early ACC game to watch, a Mountain West showdown late on Friday, plus more Big Ten and SEC action on Saturday before the Big 12 sends us [...]
The carnage in the SEC is in full swing now as every team in the league has suffered at least 1 loss. Oregon looks on with a smile as the Ducks move up into the top spot of the 18S rankings. After 8 weeks of college football, we have 10 undefeated teams remaining across [...]
Notre Dame trailed 7-0 after the 1st quarter and was on the back foot early against Georgia Tech. A strong 2nd quarter tilted the advantage towards the Irish and from there the game was largely in cruise control for the white-panted Notre Dame team at a neutral site home game for the Yellow Jackets. Now [...]
Before you read this reaction post, remember to let me know in the comments how you think my writing affected Notre Dame's College Football Playoff chances. You might as well, as almost literally every other thing that happened during Saturday's 31-13 win over Georgia Tech was examined through that lens, as opposed to being concerned [...]
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