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The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Dawgs Way Out of Reach for the Ducks

It was a pretty poor week for hoping parity would be coming our way as the usual suspects strengthened their resumes in the first full Saturday of college football. Still, we saw some absolute bangers of games littered throughout the weekend. Our Fighting Irish lost but still we rise. Here's the new 18 Stripes poll [...]

By |2022-09-06T09:40:01-04:00September 6th, 2022|Football|11 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: Making a Big Splash

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Notre Dame has named their football captains for the 2022 season. They are Avery Davis, Bo Bauer, Jarett Patterson, Isaiah Foskey, JD Bertrand, and Michael Mayer. Marcus Freeman has mentioned in a recent press conference that he prefers to defer at the [...]

By |2022-08-31T22:21:23-04:00September 1st, 2022|18S Reads|97 Comments

Play Like A Champion Today: Will This Ever Be Updated?

The average cost of attendance to the University of Notre Dame reached $80,211 for the 2022-23 school year at a place with an endowment north of $12 billion. Setting aside the rather gross sky-rocketing price of college that has continued to plague generations of young people, at least we can say that things at Notre [...]

By |2022-08-30T10:32:56-04:00August 30th, 2022|Football|33 Comments

The 2022 Notre Dame Football Depth Chart Preview

IT'S GAME WEEK. Notre Dame opens up the 2022 season this Saturday night in Columbus against the Ohio State Buckeyes. If you're reading this I'm sure you are well aware. It'll be the first visit to Ohio Stadium since 1995 and the first matchup against Ohio State since the Fiesta Bowl concluding the 2015 season. [...]

By |2022-08-29T10:00:55-04:00August 29th, 2022|Football|25 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: What Have They Done to Julius?

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News There's a stipulation in the new 7-year media contract for the Big Ten that includes an increase on their annual revenue should Notre Dame join the conference. The Irish are the only program with that specific stipulation. Tight end/fullback Davis Sherwood earned [...]

By |2022-08-25T22:12:03-04:00August 25th, 2022|18S Reads|40 Comments

Five Wide Fullbacks: So Ready for the 2022 Season

With the college football season just around the corner (Austin Peay at Western Kentucky opens up the FBS season this Saturday at Noon eastern followed by the Ireland game between Nebraska and Northwestern at 12:30 and a night cap at 10:30 eastern with Clark Lea's 'Dores visiting Hawaii) the return of Five Wide Fullbacks is [...]

By |2022-08-24T10:48:24-04:00August 24th, 2022|Football|35 Comments

The 18 Stripes 2022 Pre-Season Top 20 Poll: Clay Helton Does Not Coach USC Anymore

For me, putting this poll together and publishing it is the unofficial start of the college football season. It's time to gear up for another year of collegiate lunacy and the 134th season of Notre Dame football as the Fighting Irish have gone 33 straight seasons without a National Championship. Can we PLEASE break that [...]

By |2022-08-22T21:58:50-04:00August 23rd, 2022|Football|33 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: How to Make Lester Bangs Likeable

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Tyler Buchner was officially named the starting quarterback for Notre Dame this past Saturday. Notre Dame veteran receiver Avery Davis came back for his 6th season only to tear his ACL yet again. He'll be out for the entire 2022 season, it's [...]

By |2022-08-18T14:39:39-04:00August 18th, 2022|18S Reads|67 Comments

How Did This Happen, Volume 16: The BCS on Fox

When you think back to the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) on television I'm sure ESPN, and by extension ABC, are the networks that immediately pop into your mind. During negotiations early in the 2000's ABC became "unhappy with the new structure" which saw the BCS expand to 5 games instead of 4 going into effect [...]

By |2022-08-17T12:02:26-04:00August 17th, 2022|Football|26 Comments

The 5 Most Important Players to Notre Dame’s 2022 Season

This isn't a list of the best players at Notre Dame. The top 25 rankings from our illustrious writing staff will be coming soon. Today's list is more of a look at Notre Dame's weaknesses and which players can step into those areas to make the Irish a lot more well-rounded and competitive. I like [...]

By |2022-08-20T12:39:19-04:00August 16th, 2022|Football|38 Comments

Should Notre Dame Football Ditch NBC in the Future?

Notre Dame is heading into its 32nd season with NBC as its broadcast partner for home football games. The current deal between the 2 parties runs through the 2025 season after a 10-year extension (twice as long as the previous extension) was signed in April 2013. As reported by CBS Sports a month ago, Notre [...]

By |2022-08-14T19:39:58-04:00August 15th, 2022|Football|45 Comments
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