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The Weekly Rambler: The Most Targeted Targeting

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Audric Estime was not named a Doak Walker finalist WTF? The latest College Football Playoff rankings feature a top 4 of Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan with Washington now ahead of Florida State. Notre Dame lands in at no. 18 this week. Florida [...]

By |2023-11-22T09:11:18-05:00November 22nd, 2023|18S Reads|23 Comments

Wake Forest Game Review: A Satisfying Blowout

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 [...]

By |2023-11-18T22:48:49-05:00November 18th, 2023|Football|45 Comments

Wake Forest Game Preview: Anyone Talking About This?

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 [...]

By |2023-11-16T22:39:36-05:00November 17th, 2023|Football|8 Comments

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Making Your Own Adversity

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 [...]

By |2023-11-14T09:53:21-05:00November 14th, 2023|Football|16 Comments

A Quick Pre-Hall of Fame Update for Irish Football

Back in 2019 I embarked on an off-season journey to create a Notre Dame Hall of Fame Pyramid. You can see the results of that effort HERE for a refresher. A couple of years later we inducted Ian Book (16th best quarterback), Chase Claypool (14th best wide receiver), Cole Kmet (10th best tight end), Liam [...]

By |2023-11-13T09:10:07-05:00November 13th, 2023|18S Reads|6 Comments

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Alabama Controlling Their Destiny

The 10th week of college football brought us an impressive offensive performance in Tuscaloosa, the defending champions remaining undefeated and extends their winning streak to 26 games, plus Washington stays atop of the Pac-12 with a big win inside the Coliseum. In the ACC, Florida State has clinched its first league championship game appearance in [...]

By |2023-11-06T12:26:33-05:00November 6th, 2023|Football|4 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: Khruangbin Arrives (For Me)

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Notre Dame tight end Mitchell Evans is out for the rest of 2023 after tearing his ACL. Xavier Watts was named the Bronco Nagurski National Defensive Player of the Week again. Benjamin Morrison a Jim Thorpe Award semifinalist. Notre Dame debuted at [...]

By |2023-11-01T17:26:18-04:00November 1st, 2023|18S Reads|12 Comments

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: A Small Playoff Shakeup

Washington continues to look wobbly following the win over Oregon but haven't dropped one since with a couple close calls. The same can't be said for Oklahoma who got rock chalked over the weekend and will need to fight back into the playoff picture. By the way, the first College Football Playoff rankings come out [...]

By |2023-10-31T09:09:14-04:00October 31st, 2023|Football|15 Comments

Pittsburgh Game Review: Simply Not a Problem

Notre Dame came out with a few mistakes offensively then put some adversity behind them to bury the Pitt Panthers on Saturday afternoon in South Bend. The win moves the Irish to 7-2 in Marcus Freeman's second season with the program while lowly Pittsburgh falls down to 2-6 with top 10 ranked Florida State headed [...]

By |2023-10-28T22:37:29-04:00October 28th, 2023|Football|43 Comments
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