The Big Ten returned to action this past weekend and we're welcoming 4 new teams from the conference in our polls. Overall, it was a quiet week for most teams but a couple B1G teams flopped in their debuts against big expectations which quickly reshuffles the 2020 pecking order but also prevents an insane takeover [...]
Yes, this isn't a National Championship season for Notre Dame in an official sense. But it could've been and maybe should've been depending upon whom you ask. For certain, 1993 was an unexpected success for Notre Dame but ended in frustration and agony for a season of ultimate what-could-have-been regrets. Let's rearrange things for a [...]
A punt from the Pitt 39-yard line, a couple bad penalties, and more injury news were some of the bad things that happened on Saturday for Notre Dame. Other than that, the Irish left Pittsburgh about as happy as can be expected following a 45-3 romp over the Panthers. In what has become shockingly familiar [...]
It's not always supposed to be that easy. It's not supposed to be that easy in a rivalry game against Pittsburgh. On Saturday afternoon, it was just that easy as Notre Dame dominated a forlorn Panthers team 45-3 in front of a quiet pandemic crowd in Heinz Field. Here are 3 quick takeaways from Notre [...]
Alabama wins a mini-Game of the Century, Clemson sets ACC records, and North Carolina's comeback fell short against a resurgent Florida State team. These are the highlights from this past week of college football where we now have a new No. 1 team in our 18 Stripes poll. Note: We are only including teams who [...]
A shutout on offense is pretty rare for major college football programs. It's happened 75 times over the course of Notre Dame history, or 5.7% of total games played. However, only 26 of those games have come in the AP Poll era. Brian Kelly has never been shutout as head coach of the Irish and [...]
Let me be completely honest. In the run-up to this game I was seriously considering picking Louisville in an upset or at least a really, really close game. Why? We felt due for a super weird game, Louisville can punch above their weight (especially offensively), and, well, college football brings us these things from time [...]
Life comes at you fast. A quick turnaround from 2-10 to 8-5 in Scott Satterfield's 1st season with the Cardinals brought with it heightened expectations for Louisville in 2020. Thus far, this fall has been more of a nightmare for the Cardinals than climbing up the ACC power rankings. They opened their season with a [...]
Miami didn't show up and was drilled by Clemson, Alabama's defense nearly overshadowed their dominant offense in a bad way, Georgia clamped down late, and Florida let things slip away in College Station were just some of the highlights from this past weekend. It looks like we have a top tier of 3 teams with [...]
After a long layoff a lot of rust was expected for a Notre Dame program coming off a serious Covid breakout in the days after the win over South Florida. Somewhat unexpectedly, it was the Irish offense that came out completely under control as the defense scrambled, tackled poorly, and put together a surprisingly poor [...]
I titled this article in a purposeful way. This past off-season former highly touted quarterback Phil Jurkovec transferred out of Notre Dame and joined Boston College where he was granted immediate eligibility for 2020. If you've read any articles about the situation in recent weeks it's usually couched in terms of Notre Dame "losing" Jurkovec [...]
In this early and weird season, the usual suspects from the South have jumped out to an early lead as the teams to beat nationally. During week 5 we witnessed favorites generally hold serve at home. However, not every team was so lucky! In the back end of the rankings we have a pretty big [...]
This series is looking at past Notre Dame football National Championship seasons and imagining how things would have finished if a college football playoff system was in place at the time. We already looked at the 1973 title and today we look at Dan Devine's lone championship from 1977 following an early season stumble. Buckle [...]
Quenton Nelson is one of the rarest players in the National Football League. Through 2 seasons, he's been named 1st-team All-Pro for both years and is widely considered the best guard in the league barely through his 3rd season at the age of 24 years old. He has 2 years remaining on his rookie deal [...]
Coming in a little early this week since we are on a double bye week and this is our first poll since the action began in 2020. Everyone wants to play football now. After a couple of weeks of college football action, big conferences like the Big Ten and Pac-12 decided to reverse course and [...]
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