I don't know if I've ever seen a team ignited by a flag before, but that's what happened Saturday as an arcane rules interpretation screwed up the coolest fake punt of all time and pissed Notre Dame off enough to finish delivering a 3-touchdown second-quarter rage bomb in a 35-14 win over Virginia. First up, [...]
Miami finally meets its fate, Georgia suffers its 2nd loss, BYU hangs on in controversial fashion, Indiana stays perfect, and LSU loses big. These were the highlights from this past weekend in college football. Here's the latest 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll RANK TEAM RECORD NEXT 1 Oregon 10-0 [...]
When you're playing a team as utterly hapless as Florida State, you just want to make sure they have no reason to care. Notre Dame did not Saturday night, dispatching the Seminoles 52-3 and moving a step closer to a College Football Playoff spot. The defense threw a sack party in the Florida State backfield, [...]
Notre Dame Women's Basketball enters the 2024/25 season with sky-high expectations. Coming off an ACC Tournament title and a close loss in the Sweet 16, the Irish are preseason ACC favorites and ranked 5th/6th in the Preseason Coaches and AP Polls. The roster is easily the most talented of the Ivey-era. At full strength, their [...]
In the preview article for this one, our own Brendan called out Navy's ability to avoid turnovers, concluding it was partially them being really good at it and partially dumb luck. Both of those things turned in a huge way Saturday, and because of it Notre Dame was never threatened in a 51-14 blowout of [...]
Before you read this reaction post, remember to let me know in the comments how you think my writing affected Notre Dame's College Football Playoff chances. You might as well, as almost literally every other thing that happened during Saturday's 31-13 win over Georgia Tech was examined through that lens, as opposed to being concerned [...]
Georgia Tech was the first team to win a game in the 2024 season when they seemingly pulled off a shocking upset over #10 Florida State in Ireland. Since then, we've discovered that Georgia Tech is a decent team while Florida State is aggressively terrible. The Yellow Jackets are feisty but extremely flawed and face [...]
Important announcement for our 18 Stripes community! We've decided to create and open up our own Discord server for our writers and readers alike. In an attempt to move past our current WordPress dominated website and transform our community into something better we thought this was a good idea for the future. If you have [...]
For a little while Saturday, it looked like Stanford was hitting all the checkpoints for an annoyingly stupid Notre Dame game against a lesser opponent that went down to the wire. Not this time, though. Notre Dame exploded for 49 straight points after an opening Cardinal touchdown drive and cruised to the 49-7 win in [...]
Top QB recruit Deuce Knight publicly flipped his commitment from Notre Dame to Auburn Wednesday night. Apparently, he was impressed with Auburn making him a priority for 2 months after publicly failing to flip 2 other quarterbacks, versus the two years ND made him their #1. (I'm not bitter at all.) Personally, and I swear [...]
What a year, huh? First we had that delicious road victory against a favored SEC team, then the devastating loss to NIU, and oh, I see we're not even halfway through the schedule. The 2024 Notre Dame football team has hit some crazy highs and fallen lower than the Marianas Trench with 75% of the [...]
For the second straight home game, Notre Dame looked like a tire fire for much of the first half against a MAC opponent Saturday, but this time, at least, the Irish managed to pull itself together and post a workmanlike 28-3 victory over Miami (OH). That should at least calm the frustrated masses who, in [...]
In the most annoying blowout in Notre Dame football history, the Irish looked like the team we were promised all offseason Saturday, blasting a Purdue team that frankly looked like they were done about seven minutes into the game by a 66-7 margin. With every touchdown, the Irish's utter no-show against Northern Illinois looked more [...]
Another week another full slate of college football games. While some of the 18S Staff may want to take this weekend off, I personally think college football is something to celebrate! There are some fun games this week, renewed rivalries, up and coming programs looking to establish themselves. Let's dive into all of the week [...]
Don't you just love it when the entire perception of your favorite team is shattered within the span of a week? Right after the Texas A&M victory, I began work on an article title titled "Why You Should Trust Notre Dame this Season" where I would gush about how Marcus Freeman has transformed this program [...]
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