We're back in the football mindset opening up the 2021 campaign and heading back to Tallahassee for the first time since *that flag* denied Notre Dame a justified win over then No. 2 Florida State. Since then, Notre Dame has taken both of the meetings at home by a combined score of 84-39, although the [...]
Most of the time polls are either super fun to put together or they are a complete slog, there's rarely an in between. I started putting this poll together in mid-July full of verve and confidence and as we entered August those doubts started creeping into my head. This team is overrated, that team isn't [...]
This is my 4th year attempting to predict Notre Dame football's yards-per-play differential for the season. In an era where we are flooded with advanced stats and metrics this is the one traditional number that I find still has enough correlation and sway to make sense of this game we all love. Before we get [...]
This is a humble post serving only one purpose to provide our readers with a look at the upcoming college football season and the top games to bookmark on your calendar and inside your mind. Hopefully, I didn't miss any good ones. I basically scanned the schedules of all the Top 25-ish teams highlighting the [...]
Two years we ago we debuted the 18 Stripes Hall of Fame Pyramid for Notre Dame football and its extensive history of wonderful talent. You can read the final rankings from 2019 HERE with links to the previous levels of the pyramid linked therein. We’re now adding players who have left Notre Dame since the conclusion of [...]
Maybe it was the pandemic and general weirdness of the 2020 college football season as it was a pretty quiet off-season for new coaches across America. A lack of money for many programs across the country also played a major factor in the lack of coaching changes. Not everyone decided to save money, though. Here [...]
On Thursday afternoon the Fighting Irish concluded their final fully open practice in front of the media. We're 17 days away from Notre Dame opening the season at Florida State and will largely bide our time as the information from practices dries up as we inch closer to the 2021 football season. We'll wrap up [...]
Two years we ago we debuted the 18 Stripes Hall of Fame Pyramid for Notre Dame football and its extensive history of wonderful talent. You can read the final rankings from 2019 HERE with links to the previous levels of the pyramid linked therein. We’re now adding players who have left Notre Dame since the conclusion of [...]
It's been said this is a tradition and a hallowed one that shouldn't change. No player names on the backs of Notre Dame's jerseys has existed for the majority of the program's history although that could be changing soon. And it would be a change that is long overdue. The blue-collar mentality epitomized by the [...]
A full practice viewed by the media once again, can it be true? It's been such a long time since the Fighting Irish opened their practice world like this and it feels a bit like Christmas morning. Bad news though, we'll only have one more full media viewing for fall camp. Good news, the season [...]
I'm totally going to overthink this. In the haste of leading up to the 2020 football season and the questions about whether there'd even be a season to be played, we did not feature a Heisman preview at 18 Stripes. Back in May 2020 I did look at the Notre Dame players who have almost [...]
Monday morning brought us the return of the Shamrock Series uniform drop, an annual event that dazzles many but had been skipped for 2019-20 as the series gets ready to re-boot itself at Soldier Field against Wisconsin later this season. Enough with the small talk, let's rate the new uniforms. HELMET Most were expecting something [...]
After a long and tortuous absence the beat media was finally able to attend a Notre Dame practice once again. On Saturday afternoon, the Fighting Irish opened camp inside the indoor facility before shifting to some work on the outside field. The media was present for 30 minutes of the workout and Brian Kelly met [...]
The Notre Dame defense has been on quite a run in recent years having gone 3 straight season allowing fewer than 20 points per game. They head into 2021 with many key pieces returning but also a handful of important positions to figure out after personnel losses. There's also a new sheriff in town, hopefully [...]
This off-season absolutely flew by for me personally, who is ready to talk some real football? Notre Dame will begin fall camp this weekend as the program prepares for Brian Kelly's 12th season with the Irish moving the coch past Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, and Lou Holtz for the 2nd most career campaigns in school [...]
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