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, [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It wasn't always pretty on Saturday evening in Palo Alto, although Notre Dame got the bad taste out of its mouth from last year with a definitive victory over Stanford to cap off the 2023 regular season. I eschewed the Pac-12 Network nonsense this weekend, gave Fubo the stiff arm like I was Javaontae Jean-Baptiste, [...]

For the second straight week we avoided chaos at the top of the rankings as things stabilize heading into rivalry weekend and the regular season finale of 2023. Here's the latest 18S Top 20 Poll. 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll RANK TEAM RECORD NEXT 1 Georgia 11-0 at Georgia Tech 2 Washington 11-0 vs. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]