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The Weekly Rambler: That’s Too Much Purple

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Michigan has suspended a staffer accused of breaking all sorts of rules surrounding illegally taping opponents in an attempt to learn their team signals. It keeps getting worse by the hour. Not surprisingly, the NCAA is ready to trial coach to player [...]

By |2023-10-26T21:34:23-04:00October 25th, 2023|18S Reads|33 Comments

Five Wide Fullbacks: If You’re Looking for an OC

Five Wide Fullbacks returns as Notre Dame comes off a bye week and prepares to re-start the season this Saturday against Pittsburgh in South Bend. On this week's edition of 5WF we are tackling bowl projections, an OC search, the Heisman race, coaching hot seats, and the top position to grab in the portal that [...]

By |2023-10-24T07:57:28-04:00October 24th, 2023|Football|20 Comments

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: They Called a Fair Catch

We are downloading more data from week 8 after Ohio State choked out Penn State, Washington fell asleep, Florida State had a little scare, Alabama held off Tennessee, and Texas used some interesting officiating to slip by Houston. Not to be outdone, Iowa had one of the worst ways to lose that you'll see all [...]

By |2023-10-23T11:53:11-04:00October 23rd, 2023|18S Reads|12 Comments

22 Football Questions for Notre Dame’s Leadership in 2024 and Beyond

It was announced just under 5 months ago that Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick would be retiring at the end of the 2023-24 academic school year and on Friday night October 13th the university announced that president Rev. John Jenkins, C.S.C. would also be retiring at the same time. Notre Dame also announced that [...]

By |2023-10-19T22:34:18-04:00October 20th, 2023|Football|24 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: Humans Closing in on the 2-Hour Mark

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Xavier Watts has been named the Walter Camp Defensive Player of the Week. Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick commented after a Senate hearing this week that collective bargaining with athletes, while maintaining they are not employees, could be a solution to the [...]

By |2023-10-19T08:38:21-04:00October 19th, 2023|18S Reads|24 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: Dr. Dre Can Buy His Family Groceries

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Sad news as former Notre Dame safety Sergio Brown was arrested re-entering the United States from Mexico in connection with the murder of his mother. Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter could return to the lineup this Friday against Stanford. Oklahoma's leading receiver [...]

By |2023-10-12T09:41:07-04:00October 12th, 2023|18S Reads|19 Comments

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Prairie Skeletor is Laughing Now

Now that Notre Dame suffered its 2nd loss of the season they are no longer featured in this top 20 poll. It's pretty sad times around here. Will the Irish be able to get back into this ranking in 2023? The biggest news of this past weekend happened in Dallas where Oklahoma put itself back [...]

By |2023-10-10T09:36:35-04:00October 10th, 2023|18S Reads|7 Comments

Louisville Game Review: That’s One Big ‘L’ for the Notre Dame Program

Notre Dame had a chance on Saturday to keep hope alive for a strong season, perhaps even an outside shot at the playoffs with USC coming to town next weekend, but had those plans blown to smithereens by a much more hungrier and well prepared Louisville team inside Papa John's Stadium. What a terrible and [...]

By |2023-10-08T00:10:46-04:00October 8th, 2023|Football|102 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: The Sphere Changed the World

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Howard Cross was named the Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week after his performance against Duke. Duke quarterback Riley Leonard has a high ankle sprain but will not be out for the rest of the season. Iowa quarterback Cade McNamara [...]

By |2023-10-04T22:11:45-04:00October 4th, 2023|18S Reads|30 Comments

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: That’s a Tough Way to Lose, UCF

We are through Week 5 of the college football season and there still aren't enough upsets at the top of the sport. Perhaps we need more patience. We are happy to write that Duke didn't get to be a part of the few upsets that did happen this past weekend. Beyond a small shuffling at [...]

By |2023-10-03T08:12:33-04:00October 3rd, 2023|Football|34 Comments
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