Late in Notre Dame's 44-34 win over North Carolina, the NBC broadcast team discussed that the Irish aren't winning pretty or in dominating fashion - they're just winning. It's something of an 18 Stripes motto that, well, winning is hard. Week after week, doing enough to fight off your opponents, especially on nights you don't [...]
Notre Dame played easily its most complete game of the season Saturday, and picked a fine time to do it, dispatching rival USC 31-16 to get this 'bridge season' back on track. There was plenty to like from the Irish's performance, and even more so because the one thing that went seriously wrong - an [...]
As it turns out, it was not time to talk to your kids about Iowa football. Purdue's very much non-fluky win over the erstwhile #2 team - they outgained Iowa by almost 200 yards, allowed just 86 yards in the second half, and never trailed on their way to a three-score final margin - was very good [...]
Welcome back to the 18Stripes G5 Top 10. We had some interesting movement due to some surprising results. Let's cut the intro down and get right to it. Also Considered: BYU, Liberty, UAB, App State, Western Michigan Week 7 Recap Movers and Shakers For a quick peek behind the scenes of how I go through [...]
The advanced stats box score shows a comfortable Notre Dame victory, while the scoreboard and viewing experience against Virginia Tech were extremely unsettling for most of the game. The Irish may have discovered a new offensive identity under Tyler Buchner with rushing efficiency strengths resembling 2020, only with a clear weakness on passing downs where [...]
Sometimes you just have no explanation for anything. Notre Dame pulled off a seemingly miraculous 32-29 win over Virginia Tech Saturday night in a game they frankly had no business winning for a million reasons. But somehow, someway, ND survived and will enter a much-needed off week at 5-1 with a chance to reset before [...]
I haven't worked on this since Cincy's stinkin' Bearcats ruined everything. And thank you so much for bringing up such a painful subject. While you're at it, why don't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice over it? We're closed! Definitely a Notre Dame fan. It was a rough one. As [...]
There are coaching losses and there are coaching losses. For this game, the plan was fine (good, even - had one of those inside runs broken maybe it all would feel different), the placalling was fine. Turnovers, if you (as you should) count Cincy's missed field goals as turnovers, ended up even. But. ND set [...]
Imagine any Notre Dame team from 1997-2014 winning a game in which its third-string quarterback was taking whacks behind a line anchored by its third and fourth-string left tackle while the starting defensive tackle was out too. The Irish have reached that level as a program and they proved it with a satisfying 31-point fourth-quarter [...]
Notre Dame football might not be as entertaining, or as good, as a year ago, but for the moment the Irish remain undefeated after beating Purdue 27-13. The game was, mostly by default, ND's best performance of the season. It also tied Brian Kelly with Knute Rockne with 105 wins at Notre Dame. As the [...]
Welcome back to another Notre Dame football recruiting big board update, folks. You may remember from a few weeks ago that we have officially consolidated our offensive and defensive targets into a single board. With the Irish already having 21 commits already in the fold for the class of 2022 and limited spots remaining, it [...]
There are so many questions that Notre Dame fans will be impatient to get answered after Saturday's 32-29 Houdini act over Toledo. MICHAEL. MAYER. NUFF. SAID. No. 8 @NDFootball 32 - Toledo 29 📺 @peacockTV #GoIrish #BeatRockets pic.twitter.com/1Z4m3l7xZQ — The Fighting Irish (@FightingIrish) September 11, 2021 First of all, let's not sugarcoat this: While Toledo [...]
Well, I've seen enough of the Sunday night opening games to last my entire life. Five years ago was the Texas disaster, and this one came darn close to being just as soul-crushing. Notre Dame did somehow survive the opener tonight to defeat Florida State and its overwhelming karma boost from McKenzie Milton, 41-38, in [...]
John McNulty and Tommy Rees landed the first offensive commit from the class of 2023 on Thursday when 4-star tight end Cooper Flanagan verbally committed to the Fighting Irish. The 6'5"/230-pounder out of Concord, California is the 4th player to join Notre Dame's recruiting class of 2023 -- a class which currently ranks 3rd in [...]
Welcome back to the Odyssey. As always, you can click here to read all parts of the journey covered so far. Last time, we took a look at how the final BCS Standings shook out, while also taking a look at their ultimate result. Today, we take one look back at the season, figuring out [...]
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