The regular season concludes this Saturday in Los Angeles as Notre Dame looks to secure its place in the first 12-team college football playoff with a win over long-time rival USC. Despite an early season hiccup of all hiccups, the Fighting Irish arrive in Southern California as one of the strongest teams in America and [...]

We've reached the final regular season week of the season. Congratulations to everyone for sticking around this long and reading 18 Stripes this season. This season is far from over! 2024 Betting Record ATS: 48-52-1 SU: 63-32-0 I am clawing myself back to .500 against the spread in 2024. This past weekend I picked up wins [...]

This past weekend was a tough one for several programs. Penn State was awfully close to a bad loss at Minnesota but they escaped. Elsewhere, seven teams from our 18S rankings came away with a defeat after week 13. Ouch! I'm glad it wasn't Notre Dame. Here's the latest 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: 18 [...]

Undefeated Army faced its most talented opponent of 2024 on Saturday night in Yankee Stadium and the result was a bloodbath. In all aspects (well maybe not kicking field goals) Notre Dame dominated the action from the opening whistle to secure Marcus Freeman's second straight 10-win season with the Irish. Let's recap the blowout win [...]

Just a couple more weeks remain in the regular season. This 2024 campaign has been quite the slow burn, especially as Notre Dame works its way back from the NIU loss and has been slowly moving up the rankings each week. 2024 Betting Record ATS: 44-50-1 SU: 63-32-0 I had a good week 12 with [...]

If you were hoping for BYU to lose for general chaos reasons, your wish was granted on Saturday night. The no. 1 team in the land nearly lost in Jump Around land but came back to remain unbeaten. We'll cover that and more in this week's recap from week 12. Here's the latest 18 Stripes [...]

Notre Dame hosted Virginia on Saturday afternoon for the final home game of the 2024 regular season and after a sleepy start put away the Cavaliers in another blowout win for the Irish. This is now 8 straight wins since the unfathomable NIU loss with Notre Dame outscoring opponents 343-85 over that timespan. Not bad! [...]

Week 12 is upon us and probably won't be a memorable one as several boring conference matchups await and a handful of teams gear down with creampuffs before readying for the end of the regular season. Maybe a big upset out of nowhere is lurking, though? I wouldn't bet against it! 2024 Betting Record ATS: [...]

Sometimes a spread from Vegas can't be large enough. If you watched the first half only between Notre Dame and Florida State you might have left believing it was a bit of a lackluster performance from the Irish nursing a 21-3 lead. Yet, doubling up that score would've been right near my game prediction and [...]

Notre Dame's 2024 schedule didn't look overly difficult on paper during the pre-season but we discussed if Florida State could remain one of the stronger teams nationally it would help out a lot. As such, it made the most sense to have this weekend's matchup with the Seminoles as the 7:30 PM home game kickoff [...]

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 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: [...]