Welcome back to the Odyssey. A reminder you can read all previous posts here. Today, we take a brief look into the seeming formality of the 2001 Big East Season. Miami entered the 2001 season, as mentioned in the intro post, ready to take no prisoners after being snubbed for being snubbed a chance at [...]
Welcome back to the Odyssey. Last time, we talked about what set up this crazy season and the most important game of the 2001 season that doesn’t seem to be talked about. Today, much like the future post outlining the Big Ten, we will take a big picture look at the ACC race throughout the [...]
Quick, what season do you think of when you think of reasons the BCS didn’t work? You probably answered one of, 2003, 2004, or 2011. Those seasons seemed to break the system placed by the BCS due to one key reason; the system picked the wrong teams. 2003 USC, 2004 Auburn, 2011 Oklahoma State all [...]
"If you combine the MVP voting with the All-NBA teams, the playoff results, and individual statistics, you end up with a reasonable snapshot of exactly what happened that NBA season.” Bill Simmons makes this remark in the middle of the behemoth of his 2009 release The Book of Basketball about how to represent who really [...]
Bowl games are inherently weird if you stop and think about them for too long. They are glorified exhibitions between teams that aren’t always on the same competitive level, especially in these G5 games. Even the G5 vs P5 games this year weren’t with teams that are normally in contention for the bowls (looks at [...]
"The Committee has great respect for Cincinnati." — RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) December 20, 2020 I think we can all agree that the “respect” shown towards Cincinnati is a transparent attempt to try and appease the college football fans (and certain media members) from thinking that Cincinnati had a chance to crack that top 4. He can [...]
Earlier this week, Disney owned the social media world with their Investor Day, which had some additions to ESPN+ (which is owned by Disney through ABC). I find it ironic then, that the most notable moment on the ESPN+ platform after this investors call was the iconic finish between Ball State and Western Michigan. ESPN+ [...]
Well, that was fun, wasn’t it? Last week in this space I thought Coastal would blow the doors off of Liberty if they met on the field. Turns out, through a COVID outbreak at Liberty, BYU was easily slid in as an opponent. It was a crazy 48 hours to get to a historic matchup, [...]
Rex Culpepper’s play went viral this past Saturday for his mistake of spiking the ball on 4th and Goal with the game on the line against NC State. I won’t dive much into that because a) there really isn’t too much to dive into and b) I tend to give Culpepper a pass on these [...]
Yes, I went three for three on song lyric references in the title. No, I'm not going to apologize for it. Not a lot of changes this week as a bunch of the games I would have been looking forward to were canceled or postponed throughout the week leading to no major changes up top. [...]
Welcome back to the 18S G5 Top 10. Last week I realized in the excitement of releasing the first edition I forgot to mention what the criteria is for the list. After a week of games, I take a look into a combination of a few things; on the field play, opponent quality, ability to [...]
With this topsy turvy season finally underway and the emergence of non-powers in the AP Top 25, we decided at 18S to have a top 10 G5 Poll in parallel with the usual top 20 on a weekly basis. This season has been a fun one for the non-power schools, with many of the teams [...]
Pitt Football always seems to find themselves in these types of situations. Even if you take away the games in South Bend in 2018 and 2012, Pitt always seems to find itself as the scrappy unranked underdog in these top ten matchups. Being the only team to knock off Clemson in 2016, giving #2 ranked [...]
Welcome back to the 18Stripes Hall of Fame Series. A reminder that you can easily see every entry of the series here. Today we finish our first half of the decade (and final entry until next offseason) and the Charlie Weis era. Our potential entrant to the HOF, who could easily be praised as one [...]
Welcome back to the Hall of Fame Series here on 18Stripes. If you want to read the prior posts to get a better understand you can go here. Apologies for the delay between posts, moving and pandemics are no easy task. Today, we pivot away from the Ty Willingham era (slightly) and dive into the [...]
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