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2023 OL Christopher Terek Commits to Notre Dame

You can never have too many offensive linemen? On Sunday following the conclusion of the regular season Notre Dame flipped Wisconsin offensive guard commit Christopher Terek to add the 25th player to the 2023 recruiting class. With the verbal just under a month until Early Signing Day, Terek becomes Notre Dame's 5th offensive linemen of [...]

By |2022-11-28T21:53:35-05:00November 28th, 2022|Recruiting|30 Comments

USC Game Review: Not Quite Enough in the Tank

As expected, Notre Dame needed to score 40 points to beat USC and just couldn't get there. On Saturday night, the Trojans alternated between whirling Caleb Williams plays and a calm sense of confidence in their execution to beat the Fighting Irish. By the mid-3rd quarter, USC led 24-7 and it would be too big [...]

By |2022-11-27T10:40:28-05:00November 27th, 2022|Football|63 Comments

USC Game Preview: The New USC is Here (Maybe?)

Many doubted that Lincoln Riley would be able to rebuild USC quickly and install a culture of winning with a small 2022 recruiting class, having to juggle too many transfers, and lacking of any identity on defense. The 39-year old coach will host Notre Dame this weekend with the Trojans sitting at 10-1, a spot [...]

By |2022-11-25T08:59:58-05:00November 25th, 2022|Football|18 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: A Delayed Release

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Benjamin Morrison was named the Jim Thorpe Award Player of the Week for his 3-interception performance against Boston College. Brian Mason was not among the semifinalists named for the Broyles Award given to the top assistant in the country. The Virginia-Virginia Tech [...]

By |2022-11-24T08:48:56-05:00November 24th, 2022|18S Reads|5 Comments

18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: The Higher You Climb the Higher You Vol

From last week's rankings we saw 6 teams lose but only 1 team drops out of the 18 Stripes Top 20 poll this week. A few of these teams really suffered ugly losses that in different ways ruined their seasons. Meanwhile, Notre Dame keeps moving on up! Check out the latest 18S Top Poll ahead [...]

By |2022-11-21T20:11:52-05:00November 22nd, 2022|Football|16 Comments

Boston College Game Review: Shipping Up to Chestnut Hill

Boston College came to South Bend on Saturday looking to play spoiler on Senior Day. The Eagles would go home to Chestnut Hill suffering one of their worst losses in school history. Notre Dame absolutely pounded and humiliated BC to move to 8-3 on the season with 5 straight wins before the season finale at [...]

By |2022-11-19T21:56:30-05:00November 19th, 2022|Football|31 Comments

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: UConn Barely Believe They’re Bowl Eligible

A total of 7 teams from last week's ranking lost and none remain in our top 10 for this week. Four of them dropped out of the rankings altogether as we inch closer to the post-season, increased playoff talk, and figuring out whichever weird bowl games Notre Dame could be signing up for in a [...]

By |2022-11-15T21:21:38-05:00November 16th, 2022|Football|10 Comments

18 Stripes 2022 World Cup Preview: The Arabian Winter

The 22nd edition of the FIFA World Cup kicks off this weekend after an estimated 3.57 billion people watched the 2018 tournament, including 1.12 billion people watching France winning over Croatia in the championship final. The sport comes into this weekend looking to shake off the rust from the Covid-19 pandemic but facing heavy international [...]

By |2022-11-15T12:13:26-05:00November 15th, 2022|18S Reads|2 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: Dead Man’s Jam

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Notre Dame wide receiver Joe Wilkins announced on Monday that he'll enter the transfer portal. The former 2018 recruit finishes his Irish career with 11 receptions and 2 touchdowns. Notre Dame was named the Cheez-It Bowl National Team of the Week following [...]

By |2022-11-09T19:35:05-05:00November 10th, 2022|18S Reads|27 Comments

2024 Cornerback Karson Hobbs Commits to Notre Dame

It was a good time to visit Notre Dame if you're a cornerback. So it happened for Karson Hobbs who was in person to watch Benjamin Morrison put together one of the best games from an Irish corner in recent memory against Clemson. Hobbs, a commit to South Carolina since this summer, decommitted from the [...]

By |2022-11-09T14:48:02-05:00November 9th, 2022|Recruiting|2 Comments

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: No Flag This Time

Now, that was one awesome weekend of college football, dear friends. We made Dabo Swinney extremely sad and that even dulled the jealousy of watching Brian Kelly upset Alabama in Death Valley. The weekend was an even bigger tease with Rutgers leading Michigan at halftime--oh my goodness can you imagine if they actually held on [...]

By |2022-11-07T22:02:27-05:00November 8th, 2022|Football|26 Comments

Clemson Game Review: Tiger Tail Between Its Legs

Clemson flew home early Sunday morning seriously licking their wounds as Notre Dame put together one of its most complete and physical dominations of a top ranked opponent in a very long time. For the 1st half the weather was not cooperating for either passing game. Clemson in particular looked all out of sorts getting [...]

By |2022-11-06T10:35:44-05:00November 6th, 2022|Football|41 Comments
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