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The Weekly Rambler: Staying Away from Abe

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Former Notre Dame tackle Liam Eichenberg tore his MCL last weekend and was placed on Injured Reserve by the Dolphins. The Pittsburgh Steelers traded wideout Chase Claypool to the Chicago Bears on Tuesday. In exchange, the Bears are sending a 2nd round [...]

By |2022-11-02T21:38:44-04:00November 3rd, 2022|18S Reads|36 Comments

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: A Defensive Performance for the Ages

A pair of top 10 teams in our rankings had a rough week 9 but the tippy-top of the rankings continue to remain unblemished. That is guaranteed to change with the biggest game of the week coming up this Saturday afternoon for SEC East supremacy. We also have a handful of previously 1-loss teams starting [...]

By |2022-11-01T14:11:02-04:00November 2nd, 2022|Football|9 Comments

On the Radar: The List of Possible Quarterback Grad Transfers for Notre Dame

Notre Dame will once again be in the spotlight this off-season attempting to bring in a quarterback through the Transfer Portal. Last year, it was a hot topic of the off-season with the new coaching staff ultimately deciding to stay put with the quarterbacks on the roster at the time. It seems likely Marcus Freeman [...]

By |2022-11-01T09:39:56-04:00November 1st, 2022|Football|33 Comments

Syracuse Game Review: Squeezing the Orange on the Road

You can't have a better start than a pick six on the first play from scrimmage. I had been stuck in traffic after a Halloween function leaving myself enough time to make the Noon start but to no avail, walked in my house, and the first thing I witnessed was Brandon Joseph intercepting a pass [...]

By |2022-10-29T22:15:42-04:00October 29th, 2022|Football|39 Comments

Syracuse Game Preview: It’s Still the Carrier Dome to Me

Almost no one had this game on the 2022 radar as a big one for either Notre Dame or Syracuse prior to October of this year. Well, things change! It's arguably the biggest Syracuse home game in freaking forever--and while a win doesn't help their ACC standing--taking out the Irish would put the Orange on [...]

By |2022-10-28T10:13:16-04:00October 28th, 2022|Football|24 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: Is Everything, In Fact, Awesome?

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News News broke before last week's game against UNLV that true freshman tight end Eli Raridon has torn his ACL for the second year in a row. The NCAA published revised guidelines to NIL rules on Wednesday. Schools are not allowed to engaged [...]

By |2022-10-26T22:21:56-04:00October 26th, 2022|18S Reads|35 Comments

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: LSU Joins this Rankings Family

Friends, it was a rough weekend out there for road teams. We had 10 home teams in our rankings take care of business, including 8 out of our top 10. That includes the resurgent LSU Tigers taking down Ole Miss inside Death Valley as Brian Kelly enters our rankings for the first time this season. [...]

By |2022-10-24T22:05:22-04:00October 25th, 2022|Football|12 Comments

UNLV Game Review: Irish Out of Reach for the Rebels

It wasn't pretty, it wasn't very exciting. Notre Dame did not take advantage of plenty of opportunities to blow UNLV out of South Bend on Saturday afternoon in a solid but unspectacular 44-21 win. The Irish now move to 4-3 on the season with a crucial trip coming up to Syracuse who just suffered their [...]

By |2022-10-23T13:46:55-04:00October 23rd, 2022|Football|37 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: This Penguin Has a Score to Settle

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News According to reports, Fox is determined to block Oklahoma and Texas' early move to the SEC. The Big 12 commissioner reiterated this week that both schools will remain in the league until 2025. We also have confirmation that the Big 12 will [...]

By |2022-10-19T22:16:04-04:00October 20th, 2022|18S Reads|23 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: We Can Never Redeem These Polo Shirts

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Marcus Freeman announced that 5th-year senior linebacker Bo Bauer will be out for the rest of the season following a knee injury suffered earlier this week. Notre Dame corner Tariq Bracy is questionable this weekend against Stanford with a grade 1 hamstring [...]

By |2022-10-13T16:30:31-04:00October 13th, 2022|18S Reads|11 Comments

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: For a Title, First You Must Survive

We've had some wild weeks so far in college football 2022 and this past Saturday didn't quite match some of the highlights of other weekends to date. We saw A&M nearly toppling Alabama playing their backup quarterback, Brian Kelly taken to the woodshed, UCLA showing their back on the national scene (for now, at least), [...]

By |2022-10-11T09:34:21-04:00October 11th, 2022|Football|19 Comments

BYU Game Review: Irish Resist the Persistent Cougars

Notre Dame was close to blowing out BYU on Saturday evening inside Allegiant Stadium. Yet, the Irish went into halftime leading by only 12 points and dealt with the Cougars trying to complete a wild comeback in the second half. The tide turned very quickly against Notre Dame but credit to the team for showing [...]

By |2022-10-09T10:17:06-04:00October 9th, 2022|Football|80 Comments

Brigham Young Preview: Keeping the Dad Quarterback in Check

Bronco Mendenhall left BYU for Virginia after the 2015 season in a bit of a weird career move, has since left UVA under weirder circumstances, all while current Cougars head coach Kalani Sitake has flourished in his 7th season at his alma mater. Sitake came out of the gate fairly strong at BYU going 9-4 [...]

By |2022-10-05T14:20:51-04:00October 7th, 2022|Football|14 Comments
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