No Saban, no problem for the Tide in the Iron Bowl, Trevor Lawrence returned with authority for Clemson, Northwestern falls on their face, Iowa State moves closer to a Big 12 regular season title, and the Ducks lose to their in-state rivals. All that, plus more in the recap after our latest 18 Stripes Top [...]
I can't tell you how many times over the years I've read comments from Notre Dame fans that just casually throw it out there that the Irish could win the National Championship if such and such (usually couched in extremely likely terms) happened soon. Maybe it's a star recruit about to sign, or a player [...]
Any time you're dumb enough to pick against this Notre Dame team it's important to trust what your eyes have seen in 2020 and to believe in Clark Lea. And also, believe in Tommy Rees. And Ian Book. And...well you get the point. Following a scary opening to the game that saw North Carolina's offense [...]
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. A return as a head coach isn't supposed to work out very often. Just ask Randy Edsall whose UConn team is sitting out 2020 through the pandemic after going 6-30 in their coach's second stint at Storrs. That fate hasn't affected Mack Brown to date who returned to Chapel Hill last [...]
Alabama won by 60, Ohio State held off Indiana, Cincinnati skated past UCF, Wisconsin flopped in Evanston, Coastal Carolina won a tough game against App State, USC dropped Utah, and we were an overtime away from seriously ranking Rutgers, you guys. A full recap after our latest Top 20 rankings. 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll [...]
We are approaching a decade since the major conference realignment recast college football and helped to usher in the playoff era of today. The topic of further expansion or contraction of conference ebbs and flows over the years but has mostly remained a dormant discussion outside of a rare treatise on the future of Texas [...]
Notre Dame is just like every other program in America in that they have a lot of work to do in order to sort through all of the roster upheaval that's coming after the NCAA made historic changes to the scholarship situation in 2020 and beyond. It seems actually absurd that the Early Signing Period [...]
Florida makes its case as the 2nd best team in the SEC, Miami escapes again, Indiana keeps on winning, Cincinnati isn't slowing down, while Michigan may be folding their program soon. This and more from this past week of college football. 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll RANK TEAM RECORD NEXT 1 Alabama 6-0 BYE [...]
There were moments and exchanges in the first half against Boston College that had Irish fans worried we'd have to buckle our seat belts for a tight game and possible upset. However, a flurry of plays and an excellent offensive performance that put the ball in the end zone allowed Notre Dame to pull away [...]
Boston College wasn't supposed to be good this season. Okay, maybe they aren't good in the strictest sense but they certainly have surprised a little bit while currently sitting in the middle of the pack within the ACC and 8th best team in the league according to the latest SP+ rankings (the Eagles sit 52nd [...]
Michigan loses again (Stanford too!) while Notre Dame did a thing this weekend. Florida grabs hold of the SEC East, Cincinnati and BYU continue to look damn good, while we welcome Indiana into the playoff conversation for the time being. That and more from this past weekend. Note: We are only including teams who have [...]
"We're extremely excited about the victory and beating Clemson. Look, all the narratives that are out there and whatever is said, you know, talked about, that doesn't help you win this game. What we're excited about and what we're celebrating is that we played with an incredible focus and resolve. Those are things that we [...]
Mike Leach gets shutout for the first time ever, Clemson survives a scare, Ohio State rolls on GameDay, Texas shakes things up, and Michigan suffers their worst loss under Jim Harbaugh. These are the top stories from week 9 in college football. Note: We are only including teams who have taken the field in 2020. [...]
The 2012 recruiting year was 9 cycles ago but you're about to see how in many ways it feels like it was 25 years ago. This was back when National Signing Day still meant something! Now, with the early signing period in December, the February mega day has been relegated to the ugly step child [...]
Notre Dame got off to a hot start, hogged the ball again, and used a steady performance on both sides of the ball to dispatch a young Georgia Tech team in Atlanta on Saturday. If not for a jolting fumble return touchdown for the Yellow Jackets this one could've been really ugly. However, the Irish [...]
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