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 [...]
The Tide enter the national conversation for the first time, Miami takes command in the ACC, Ohio State passes their road test, Florida drops a turd, Michigan loses again, Kentucky with an overtime winner, plus more action from week 5 in college football. 18 Stripes Top 20 Ranking RANK TEAM RECORD NEXT 1 Texas [...]
Last week was pretty awesome for college football. Loads of fun games and interesting results. Plus, we got the special treat of Michigan and USC both losing embarrassingly which should fill the hearts of Notre Dame fans across the globe. What's in store for week 5? 2026 Betting Record Against the Spread: 14-20 Straight Up: [...]
Indiana survives a scare, Texas remains #1 despite looking blah, Oklahoma and A&M hit the eject button, Florida has announced itself, a furious Badgers comeback, USC loses another big game, Michigan loses at the final whistle, and Louisville is foiled at home within the ACC. All this and more coming out of week 4 in [...]
Purdue once again. After a break in the series from 2015 through 2020 this will be the 3rd straight year facing the Boilermakers and the 4th meeting since 2021. It continues to be dark days for the Boilers as they enter the weekend 1-2 and are coming back off a little bit of a short [...]
I don't want to get ahead of myself or jinx it. I think week 4 by some margin will be the best and most entertaining week of the season so far. And it might not be topped for a while. We have tons of intriguing games, so many that I had to cut a handful [...]
A bunch of thoughts about Notre Dame football after the first 3 games of the season... It's hard not to be focused almost exclusively with some of the issues with the offense. I'll start with the play-calling where the offense seems to be needlessly trying to ManBall their way out of running game problems--both in [...]
A thriller in Oxford, a road win by Kentucky, Alabama's slow start, a USC pillow fight, weather delays everywhere, West Virginia securing Duke's Mayo, and one of the worst ways to lose a football game you'll ever see were highlights of week 3 in college football. 18 Stripes Top 20 Ranking RANK TEAM RECORD [...]
We are back inside Notre Dame Stadium this weekend for a night game against Michigan State. Wait, a night game? Unbelievably yes, we are being subjected to a week 3 night game against a Big Ten team that hasn't had a winning record over the past 4 seasons. Well then, surely it's expected to be [...]
Week 2 is behind us and with the losses by Oregon and Ohio State the top of the rankings has opened up a little bit. Coming into this weekend the out of conference games take a back seat and league games are in the spotlight. We are very quickly moving into the thick of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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