It leaves a bad taste in your mouth when it's the regular season finale and a weekend full of great rivalry games only for Notre Dame to face a 4-7 Stanford team with an interim head coach. That this game kicks off at 10:30 PM ET is even more insane. As you'll see below, the [...]

An expected quiet weekend unfolded exactly like that, very little chaos happened over the past few days which isn't great news for Notre Dame but also not the end of the world, either. So this won't be a very interesting set of rankings, and I don't expect the College Football Playoff committee to have a [...]

With the score sitting at 21-0, in the gameday Discord channel I joked Notre Dame should cover the spread in the first quarter. Wishes do come true this Holiday season, I guess. On an overcast afternoon in South Bend, the visiting Syracuse Orange showed they did not belong on the same field as the Fighting [...]

A Syracuse team coming off a 10-win season with Notre Dame transfer Steve Angeli at quarterback returning to South Bend on Senior Day looked like it was going to be a spicy matchup back in August. Fast forward a few months and things have changed to the point where Notre Dame is simply trying to [...]

We have a couple certified bangers coming up but week 13 is largely the "play a FCS or super easy opponent before the rivalry regular season finale" portion of the season. Notre Dame is also on an active bye week, yes let's call it that, as massive favorites over a depressed Syracuse team. It's not [...]

Notre Dame took care of business this past weekend with a smackdown inside Acrisure Stadium (among the top 5 worst named stadiums in North American sports no doubt) against Pittsburgh. That was the most important part of week 12. Across the rest of the country, things didn't quite break in Notre Dame's favor. Even with [...]

In a battle of freshmen quarterbacks Notre Dame's defense provided a loud statement to the rest of the country that they're ready to keep this momentum past the regular season and into the playoffs. Even with an uneven performance for the Irish offense the game at Pittsburgh was never close. Eight straight wins for Notre [...]

I was mindlessly surfing social media recently when I came across a cut up video of how the New York Jets prepare their footballs for games. Full disclosure, I never really thought that deeply about the process although in the NFL the game balls have always been noticeable for being really dark. If you buy [...]

Last week I only included 5 games in my picks (we'll get to that in a minute) and this upcoming week is going to be the exact opposite with a whole bevy of juicy games to consider. With just a few weeks to go in the regular season we are getting close to the post-season. [...]

This past week four teams from our 18 Stripes ranking fell, although there weren't any big upsets near the top of the country. Still, things continue to break nicely for Notre Dame as they chase another playoff appearance with a 7-2 record. Here's the latest poll from 18 Stripes: 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll [...]

It was the annual Navy game this Saturday night in a rainy/sleety/snowy South Bend so there was no escaping a certain level of annoyingness that is as familiar for Notre Dame fans as dozens of traditions surrounding the program. Thankfully, the worry didn't last very long as the Irish took firm command of the game [...]

As we head towards week 11 I think this will be a bit of a let down from pre-season expectations. Indiana visiting Penn State could've been a big one, but the Nittany Lions are reeling after 5 straight losses and a blowout defeat to Ohio State last week. How about Florida State visiting Clemson in [...]

This past weekend may have not been the most pleasant viewing experience for Notre Dame football. To all of those Irish fans who made the trip to Chestnut Hill to watch that it must've been an experience. The good news from week 10 is that things started to shake in Notre Dame's favor with a [...]

On a breezy afternoon in Chestnut Hill it was supposed to be an easy victory over a slumping Boston College program with little to play for in November. Notre Dame got a heavy dose of crazy college football in a sleepy, weird, and disappointing effort that was fortunately enough to hold off the Eagles 25-10. [...]