Welcome back to the 18S Group of 5 Tier List! One full week of games is (mostly) in the books and it did not disappoint. Let's dive into the action. The Week 1 Group of 5 Tier List Week 1 Review We Need To Talk About Boise So perennial Group of 5 power Boise State [...]
Notre Dame opened the 2022 season in a tight battle with no. 2 Ohio State, even taking a lead into halftime. In a game marred by key injuries on both sides it ended up being a very upside down style of play based on expectations from the Irish and Buckeyes. For a while, it looked [...]
These things are a lot easier to write after wins, but here goes. Notre Dame lost to Ohio State 21-10 tonight, sending Marcus Freeman to 0-2 and creating the easiest wisecrack in the history of Twitter about the much-discussed and hyped new Notre Dame coach. It's funny how pregame narratives can be so wrong. What [...]
[fade in to gentle nature sounds] As the late summer sun sloughs off the demi-gloom robes of twilight, a landscape draws into view that is markedly different than the one the same heavenly traveler left us with not so long ago. The once-imposing Matterhorns that obstructed the precious natural resources the pride must hoard to [...]
Once again the 18 Stripes crew was invited to participate in the annual "Counting Down the Irish" list of top 25 preseason Notre Dame players. While the votes are tied to my name, I like to go with a "wisdom of the crowds" approach each year, opening voting to the staff and then averaging our [...]
Notre Dame and Ohio State haven't played much throughout history but when they do it tends to be a huge game at the time of kickoff. The Irish head to Columbus to open the 2022 season in what will be the 5th straight game in this series between Top 10 teams. And if we include [...]
The average cost of attendance to the University of Notre Dame reached $80,211 for the 2022-23 school year at a place with an endowment north of $12 billion. Setting aside the rather gross sky-rocketing price of college that has continued to plague generations of young people, at least we can say that things at Notre [...]
IT'S GAME WEEK. Notre Dame opens up the 2022 season this Saturday night in Columbus against the Ohio State Buckeyes. If you're reading this I'm sure you are well aware. It'll be the first visit to Ohio Stadium since 1995 and the first matchup against Ohio State since the Fiesta Bowl concluding the 2015 season. [...]
Welcome back to 18Stripes and your one stop shop for everything you need to know about the Group of 5. While Week 0 was a fairly quiet week, I still have a fair amount to say about the games and the format of the column. As I mentioned last week, the format for this column [...]
With the college football season just around the corner (Austin Peay at Western Kentucky opens up the FBS season this Saturday at Noon eastern followed by the Ireland game between Nebraska and Northwestern at 12:30 and a night cap at 10:30 eastern with Clark Lea's 'Dores visiting Hawaii) the return of Five Wide Fullbacks is [...]
For me, putting this poll together and publishing it is the unofficial start of the college football season. It's time to gear up for another year of collegiate lunacy and the 134th season of Notre Dame football as the Fighting Irish have gone 33 straight seasons without a National Championship. Can we PLEASE break that [...]
Welcome back to the Group of 5 Preview for 2022. During the offseason, I did a lot of thinking about how I wanted to improve and make the lists better and have the content still be fresh. Thinking about this, I thought about how chaotic the early season for Group of 5 teams can be. [...]
We are less than a year away from the return of a college football video game. Using EA Sports old tradition of releasing the game on the second Tuesday in July once we get to 7/9/23 for the release of College Football 24 it will have been 10 years to the day since we've had [...]
When you think back to the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) on television I'm sure ESPN, and by extension ABC, are the networks that immediately pop into your mind. During negotiations early in the 2000's ABC became "unhappy with the new structure" which saw the BCS expand to 5 games instead of 4 going into effect [...]
This isn't a list of the best players at Notre Dame. The top 25 rankings from our illustrious writing staff will be coming soon. Today's list is more of a look at Notre Dame's weaknesses and which players can step into those areas to make the Irish a lot more well-rounded and competitive. I like [...]
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