Stretching back to the start of the AP Poll in 1936, an unranked Notre Dame football team has defeated a team that was ranked at kickoff on 27 different occasions. In 13 of these games, Notre Dame finished the season unranked while the opponent finished in the polls. These are the dumbest best wins from [...]
On Wednesday, March 22, 1989 I experienced one of the coolest moments of my childhood. As a 7-year old I was lined up on rubber mats in the bowels of Buffalo Memorial Auditorium dressed in full hockey gear with a group of other teammates and players in our Northern Chautauqua County Youth Hockey Association league. [...]
So it shall be for 2020, for the first time in Notre Dame football's storied history a conference championship trophy is available to be won. The Atlantic Coast Conference recently unveiled a 10-game schedule for all of its members this fall, including Notre Dame who will be taking part fully in the festivities. For 2020, [...]
Notre Dame has put together 3 straight seasons of at least 10 wins (remember when doing this back-to-back was such a hump to get over for the program?) and also achieved that feat in 4 out of the last 5 years, as well. When you look at the team's yards per play differential these winning [...]
Rand, West Virginia sits on a tiny strip of land on the eastern banks of the Kanawha River about a 10-minute drive south of the state capital in Charleston. If you've watched the 2015 documentary Rand University you know how much of a profound affect Randy Moss' hometown has on his life. It would be [...]
It takes a lot of devotion to sit through a boring football game. Sometimes, the power of doing something else takes over or you end up asleep on your couch. Today, let's see how many of you remember details from these games. This was written before Golden began his "Wins of the Kelly Era" series [...]
We here at 18 Stripes haven't officially spoken on the COVID-19 pandemic over the last several months and how it could affect the upcoming college football season. It has been such uncharted territory for all of us that any speculation back in March or April would've been foolish at best. Mostly, we didn't see the [...]
Notre Dame football is rich in many regards, including a deep reservoir of photographs from the early days of the program and into the middle of the 20th century that provide us with an amazing look back at this beloved program. I recently took some time to pick through some of my favorite pictures from [...]
If there's football this fall one thing seems clear, there will be a giant asterisk for the season when it comes to attendance. Butts in seats has always been a contentious issue exacerbated by Notre Dame "officially" giving up on its decades-long sellout streak in 2019. It's guaranteed there will be no sellouts in 2020 [...]
Retiring jerseys in sports is an extremely funny thing. Some teams are quite stingy while other teams love handing out the honor like cheap candy. Some sports like football have to remain calm so they have enough numerals for a full roster while other sports like baseball tend to go all out. For that reason [...]
Good offense beats good defense, so they say. Since 1913 when Jesse Harper took over as head coach, Notre Dame has totaled 26 seasons in which the offense placed in the top 10 nationally in scoring. From that group, 12 teams didn't quite make top 5 including: 1914 (8th), 1923 (9th), 1924 (6th), 1930 (10th), [...]
One of the things about being obsessed with uniforms is this attention to detail extends to a million different aspects to watching a sport on television or in person. A lot has changed since I was a kid, but it seems even more has changed in sports over the past 10 to 15 years. I [...]
If there is college football this fall Notre Dame football will be entering its 30th season having its home games broadcast on NBC with the current deal set to expire following the 2025 campaign. It's been a wild ride through the years with as many as 30 personalities a part of the broadcast, sideline, and [...]
It's candy time. It's time to indulge our sweet tooth and discuss the best, worst, and most underrated sugar sweets this country has to offer. It's a daunting task with seemingly endless options for praise and ridicule. To keep things relatively tight I limited myself mostly to candy bars and hard or soft candy that [...]
A lot of things have changed in football through the years. The ball used to be a different shape. More than 11 players were on the field for each team in the early years. You couldn't throw the ball forward for a long time. Substitutions were illegal then then legal then back to illegal. Touchdowns [...]
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