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The 18 Stripes Top 20 Ranking: Winning is Still Hard Sometimes

The state of Oklahoma giveth and the the state of Oklahoma taketh away. The downtrodden boys from Stillwater gave us the biggest upset of the season so far and yet the Sooners vomited away a win at Michigan to fall out of our rankings. Elsewhere, Ohio State coughs up an opportunity to win at Texas [...]

By |2026-09-14T08:13:59-04:00September 14th, 2026|Football|3 Comments

2026 College Football Week 2 Picks: ABC Ratings Bonanza

It feels good. It feels real nice to be back in the swing of college football picks and setting up a weekend for television viewing. As I mentioned in this week's Top 20 rankings, I feel like Week 1 overdelivered after a slow start to the proceedings. Now, we have some good games in Week [...]

By |2026-09-09T19:00:23-04:00September 10th, 2026|Football|10 Comments

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Ranking: We Know Western Won

The first full weekend of college football wasn't supposed to bring us a whole lot in terms of compelling matchups, but damn it this sports keeps delivering us enough juice and we got our money's worth after week one. I mean, I come out of every weekend hating Michigan more than any other team and [...]

By |2026-09-08T08:17:33-04:00September 8th, 2026|Football|11 Comments

Turning Green Bay Blue: Wisconsin Instant Reaction

Notre Dame opened up the 2026 season with a neutral site home game in Green Bay accompanied by the motto "Leave No Doubt" carried around the program. During an uninspired and seemingly conservative first half, doubt looked very much on the table. Nursing a small halftime lead, the Irish came out with a commanding 3rd [...]

By |2026-09-06T23:38:58-04:00September 6th, 2026|Football|40 Comments

Wisconsin Game Preview: Sunday Night Neutral Site Shamrock Series

We've finally made it. After an excruciatingly long break of 282 days, the Fighting Irish step onto the football field this weekend to kick start the 2026 season. It's going to feel weird for sure. It's a home game, played on Sunday night, inside Lambeau Field in Green Bay, and it's a Shamrock Series event. [...]

By |2026-09-02T09:08:39-04:00September 2nd, 2026|Football|17 Comments

The Notre Dame 2026 Season Preview: Leave No Doubt Loading…

The momentum from the run to the National Championship to conclude the 2024 season felt like it could continue for 2025 if Notre Dame football could get over a few early hurdles. Instead, the Irish paid dearly for those early stumbles and were blocked out of last year's playoffs. Now, the team picks itself up [...]

By |2026-08-21T12:02:49-04:00August 21st, 2026|Football|7 Comments

Notre Dame Fall Camp Begins: Fresh Info on the 2026 Irish

Notre Dame opened up fall camp on Thursday, August 6th in South Bend with expectations plenty high and perhaps rising even further as the country learns more about this edition of the Fighting Irish. Although it's just shorts and helmets, this is always a fun time of year as we inch closer to actual football [...]

By |2026-08-06T20:30:42-04:00August 6th, 2026|Football|5 Comments

The 18 Stripes 2026 Pre-Season Top 20 Ranking: The 157th Edition of College Football

Welcome back to the first top 20 ranking of the 2026 season. It's good to be back in this space and ready to lock in for another season of college football. As always, change continues to happen everywhere in this sport. The Pac-12 is back as a real league again (although not with power conference [...]

By |2026-08-03T12:49:15-04:00August 3rd, 2026|Football|5 Comments

New Shields Hall: The Greatest Collection of Notre Dame Signage

A while ago, Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman attended a ground breaking ceremony with a hard hat on looking forward to a new football facility being built off Courtney Lane across from the new indoor practice field and sharing the same block as the Gug football and athletic building. If you've paid attention to [...]

By |2026-07-31T11:35:57-04:00July 31st, 2026|Football|13 Comments
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