The Irish offense finished 2023 ranked 14th in Offensive F+, which feels like a "meets expectations" grade from where things stood in the preseason. Still, the game-by-game output that placed Notre Dame there feels underwhelming - Sam Hartman and company throttled some inferior opponents but struggled to put points on the board in most of [...]
This season I'll be separating the weekly games to watch and winner picks from the 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll. Just like old times. Taking stock of the opening week(s) of college football we have a solid lineup but not a very deep one. As the mega conference continue to get larger I'm not sure [...]
By the time Notre Dame kicks off their season in College Station later this month it'll be 154 years and nearly 10 months since the first college football game was played in the United States. Some might argue otherwise, but college football is still alive and thriving heading into 2024. This season comes with plenty [...]
The official University of Notre Dame football depth chart for the 2024 season is soon to be released into the wild as the program travels down to College Station to open another year of fun. This is fun, right? In advance, 18 Stripes will give one more thorough look through the Irish roster and present [...]
Welcome back to the first Five Wide Fullbacks of the hot summer time. In today's edition we are talking about the injury to Gabriel Rubio, the development of Notre Dame's offensive line, a tricky 2024 opponent to watch, the brewing saga of 2025 quarterback recruit Deuce Knight, and insights from the recent Olympics version of [...]
Football is coming. Just a few more weeks until the Aer Lingus Classic kicks off the 2024 college football season. Let's take a look at the top games to watch this fall, shall we? Of course, we have a lot of change this year. The 12-team playoff has been pushed forward and will make its [...]
Notre Dame has been playing football for 135 years and along the way some momentous decisions were made to shape the history of this storied program now entering a daring new phase of college sports. This off-season, we look back at the 10 best decisions made for the Fighting Irish in the decades past. #1 [...]
Football is nearly upon us. In case you missed it, we previewed the Notre Dame offense as fall camp begins soon. You can read that HERE. Today, we take a look at the Irish defense. Coordinator: Al Golden, 3rd Season I never would've thought Golden would last this long at Notre Dame either through struggles, [...]
With the updated home uniforms recently announced, we were just talking about the attempt to wear shiny gold player numbers on the Notre Dame blue jerseys. For the 2024 Shamrock Series uniforms, the school simply says, "hold my beer." On Wednesday, Notre Dame released their 2024 Shamrock Series uniforms to be worn at Yankee Stadium [...]
Fall camp is coming. The Irish will open up their preparations for the 2024 opener on Wednesday, July 31st as year 3 of the Marcus Freeman era officially begins. It's time to preview the offensive side of the ball! Coordinator: Mike Denbrock, 1st Season Well it's not Denbrock's first season, really. More like it's his [...]
The secret if officially out. After leaks from the College Football 25 video game (and early release beginning this past Monday evening) the world knew that Notre Dame was changing up its uniforms for the 2024 season. In this case, it's just a small change to the home jersey. So far, at least. If we [...]
The Power 5 is no more with the destruction of the Pac-12 conference, RIP to the conference of champions. In this article last year we included Washington State so they are now ineligible for today's illustrious list. In one of the more amazing stories of the 2023 season, the Northwestern football program went from being [...]
In just 17 more days, EA Sports College Football 25 will be released fully to the public. In case you missed it, we covered the gameplay deep dive from early in June that provided finer details of controlling the players during games. Not long ago, EA also released a sights and sounds deep dive which [...]
Notre Dame has been playing football for 135 years and along the way some momentous decisions were made to shape the history of this storied program now entering a daring new phase of college sports. This off-season, we look back at the 10 best decisions made for the Fighting Irish in the decades past. #2 [...]
I can't help it when anyone complains about the Notre Dame football schedule not being difficult enough, I always want to push back. It's something innate inside of me because I always feel like it's one of those areas where fans see what they want to see, use tools to measure the current schedule, but [...]
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