Our weeks-long wait until the bowl game is upon us. For this blog, it's the first step towards pivoting towards off-season content. As I searched for some ideas I got to wondering what the ACC is going to look like in a transformative season for college football in 2024. That's normal, right? Who isn't thinking [...]
The regular season is over (except Army-Navy of course) and now we await the concluding championship weekend before the last 4-team playoff, accompanied by the weird bowl system, finishes off this 2023 campaign. Here's the latest 18S Top 20 Poll. 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll RANK TEAM RECORD NEXT 1 Georgia 12-0 vs. Alabama [...]
It wasn't always pretty on Saturday evening in Palo Alto, although Notre Dame got the bad taste out of its mouth from last year with a definitive victory over Stanford to cap off the 2023 regular season. I eschewed the Pac-12 Network nonsense this weekend, gave Fubo the stiff arm like I was Javaontae Jean-Baptiste, [...]
When this season began, I doubt any Notre Dame fan was too concerned with watching the Pac-12 Network, but this is what you get for losing a couple of games you shouldn't have. Notre Dame sent the Pac-12 Network's football coverage out in predictable fashion Saturday, routing Stanford 56-23, though they took an annoyingly circuitous [...]
Some of you may remember that last year I savaged - appropriately, I would say - the Stanford Cardinal in the contemporary game preview post. Stanford came into last year's game 1-4, with the one win coming over FCS Colgate, and allowing 38.5 points per game to FBS opponents. They would finish the season allowing [...]
For the second straight week we avoided chaos at the top of the rankings as things stabilize heading into rivalry weekend and the regular season finale of 2023. Here's the latest 18S Top 20 Poll. 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll RANK TEAM RECORD NEXT 1 Georgia 11-0 at Georgia Tech 2 Washington 11-0 vs. [...]
Notre Dame came into this Saturday's game against Wake Forest as heavy favorites on Senior Day and after a brief struggle to find momentum eventually put things in cruise control for an easy victory. Back-to-back seasons of at least 8 wins: clinched for Marcus Freeman. The Irish put together a very solid day on offense [...]
The tradition of ACC continues with another visit from Wake Forest, feel the excitement emanating from this article. At one point, this looked like an interesting matchup as Sam Hartman faces his old team but the recent struggles by both the Irish and Demon Deacons put a bit of a downer on this Senior Day [...]
The Notre Dame trip to Clemson ended up as a toss-up in the final numbers - SP+ gave the Irish a 43% expected win probability and an adjusted margin of -1.5 points. ND outgained the Tigers by nearly a yard per play, created more scoring chances, and were +1.22 in expected turnovers (only to finish [...]
Week 11 of the college football season brought us a near upset for Virginia, the top Dawgs asserting their dominance, Miami dropping their 4th ACC game, Washington holding serve at home, and much more including Michigan's loathing redemption tour exiting Happy Valley without a loss. As always, you can't depend on Penn State to pull [...]
The college football season is coming to its conclusion soon and during Notre Dame's 2nd bye week what better time than now to take a look at the head coach's doing a mighty fine job in 2023. As always, we aren't including the super obvious candidates (great job over there, Kirby Smart!) and want to [...]
Another week, another bitterly disappointing defeat against a team you can argue Notre Dame had no business losing to. A season that began with dreams of a playoff bid will now culminate in a 2nd or 3rd tier bowl game. The most frustrating aspect of this slide is that the Irish defense has clearly taken [...]
The 10th week of college football brought us an impressive offensive performance in Tuscaloosa, the defending champions remaining undefeated and extends their winning streak to 26 games, plus Washington stays atop of the Pac-12 with a big win inside the Coliseum. In the ACC, Florida State has clinched its first league championship game appearance in [...]
The line heading into this game did feel a little curious but it's example 9 million of how Vegas knows best as the Irish crashed and burned their boats on another trip Clemson on Saturday afternoon. The team fought back from a 1st half deficit and then couldn't complete a thorough comeback (or a pass) [...]
The Irish defense dominated, special teams fueled an early lead and some late style points, and the Notre Dame offense righted the ship after a shaky start to demolish Pitt. For a second straight game Marcus Freeman's squad found some easy points outside the core phases of the game with 5 takeaways and special teams [...]
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