Army Preview: Outlined Against a Blue Gray November Sky…

...The Irish once again rode into Yankee Stadium. Two games away from their ultimate end goal of a College Football Playoff berth. Two hard tests, for very different reasons. Let's dive into the first one taking place tomorrow night. Army vs Notre Dame (-14.5) Yankee Stadium The Bronx, NY Date: Saturday, November 23, 2024 Time: [...]

By |2024-11-21T16:10:21-05:00November 22nd, 2024|18S Reads|15 Comments

NDWBB Diary: Style Points, Injury Worries, and an SC Preview

Results wise, the opening two weeks of the Irish Women's Hoops season have gone about as well as we could have hoped. Four wins by an average of 42 points are a decent way to kick off any campaign. Taking a closer look, we saw Olivia Miles earn ACC and National Player of the Week [...]

By |2024-11-21T08:25:05-05:00November 21st, 2024|18S Reads|2 Comments

Your Flag Means Death: Virginia Instant Reaction

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, [...]

By |2024-11-16T19:45:29-05:00November 16th, 2024|18S Reads, Football|20 Comments

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: The Dawgs Are Down

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 [...]

By |2024-11-10T15:36:06-05:00November 12th, 2024|18S Reads|9 Comments

Doing the Job: Florida State Instant Reaction

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, [...]

By |2024-11-10T00:02:04-05:00November 10th, 2024|18S Reads|17 Comments

NDWBB Season Preview: We’re So Back

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 [...]

By |2024-11-07T09:42:51-05:00November 7th, 2024|18S Reads, Basketball|4 Comments

Playoff Predictor: Georgia Tech Instant Reaction

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 [...]

By |2024-10-19T22:17:23-04:00October 19th, 2024|18S Reads, Football|24 Comments

Georgia Tech Game Preview: Buzzing the Tower in the ATL

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 [...]

By |2024-10-18T15:11:50-04:00October 18th, 2024|18S Reads, Football|9 Comments

Join the 18 Stripes Discord Server

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 [...]

By |2024-10-14T18:00:25-04:00October 14th, 2024|18S Reads, Football|10 Comments

A Complete Game: Stanford Instant Reaction

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 [...]

By |2024-10-12T23:31:00-04:00October 12th, 2024|18S Reads, Football|7 Comments

Deuce Knight’s Decommitment is the Latest Thing Making This Fan Base Crazy

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 [...]

By |2024-10-02T20:33:32-04:00October 2nd, 2024|18S Reads, Football|62 Comments

Louisville Game Preview: This Game is the Season

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 [...]

By |2024-09-27T10:02:06-04:00September 27th, 2024|18S Reads, Football|16 Comments

At Least They Won This Time: Miami (OH) Instant Reaction

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 [...]

By |2024-09-21T19:41:56-04:00September 21st, 2024|18S Reads, Football|8 Comments

An Annoying Blowout: Purdue Instant Reaction

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 [...]

By |2024-09-14T19:31:28-04:00September 14th, 2024|18S Reads|12 Comments
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