Welcome back to the 18Stripes G5 Top Ten. We had our last big week of games before bowl season on Saturday. While the Power 5 had some more chalk results, we had some more interesting results in the G5. Let's dive into it. Also Considered: Coastal Carolina, Air Force, Northern Illinois, SMU, Western Kentucky Week [...]
The story of Brian Kelly at Notre Dame is one of steady improvement. His success wasn't instant, with close-game struggles and a 4-5 start in Year 1 and the most frustrating possible 0-2 start in Year 2. There were dramatic swings here and there - the breakthrough in 2012 few saw coming, and the collapse [...]
Notre Dame introduced its new 35-year old head coach Marcus Freeman on Monday afternoon to an assembled crowd inside the indoor practice facility. Exactly 11 months ago Andy wrote an article for this website announcing the hiring of Freeman as defensive coordinator in a battle with LSU that many thought the Irish would lose. Then, [...]
Notre Dame narrowly missed out on another College Football Playoff bid and as expected was given a berth in the Fiesta Bowl where they'll face Big 12 runner-up Oklahoma State to start the New Year. The Cowboys won 11 out of their first 12 games this season with only a blemish road loss at Iowa [...]
Ryan Day finally loses a Big Ten game, the Iron Bowl came through again, Nebraska found yet another way to inflict a devastating loss on its fans, North Carolina blows it magnificently, Bedlam delivered craziness, and we learned not to trust Wisconsin. College football is the best. With the regular season behind us, let's take [...]
Thanks to Marcus Freeman, our long (48 hour) national nightmare is over. Brian Kelly sent shockwaves through the Notre Dame fan base and raised eyebrows around the country when he bolted South Bend for Baton Rouge on Monday. Once upon a time, the school known for glacially-paced background checks may have run a search for [...]
Welcome back to another edition of Five Wide Fullbacks where this week we are talking all things Brian Kelly. Nearly 12 full years with the program and gone on a plane to Baton Rouge after a brief meeting with the players, what a wild ending it's been to a long tenure for Kelly. We're going [...]
Can we skip awarding this year's Heisman Trophy? Can this year finally be the one where we award someone for the quality of their career? Don't get me wrong now, I'm usually a staunch defender of the Heisman process and avoid the too-cool-for-school criticisms that it's become a joke of an award. This year, though! [...]
In a sudden matter of minutes on Monday night, Brian Kelly was gone from Notre Dame. After nearly 12 full seasons the coach has decided to leave for LSU and what is reportedly a very large bag of money. We'll have more on his legacy in the coming days and weeks. Speculation on who will [...]
Well, that escalated quickly. Late this afternoon reports surfaced that LSU was targeting Brian Kelly as their next head coach, with athletic director Scott Woodward likely to make some type of godfather offer. While the details haven't emerged, it appears he found an offer that Kelly couldn't refuse. Sources: LSU is expecting to hire Notre [...]
Welcome back to the 18Stripes G5 Top 10. We hit the final weekend of the regular season. While some teams seemed to feast on the opportunity to end their seasons strong, some got their tryptophan later than usual, suffering some bad losses. Let's dive into it. Also Considered: Utah State, Air Force, Western Kentucky, Northern [...]
As expected, Notre Dame cruised to its 11th win of the season in the finale at Stanford in a game that was never seriously challenged. Into the late hours of Saturday night on the East Coast, the Irish played out the string to conclude a tough season from a personnel standpoint overcoming many obstacles and [...]
The game was almost beside the point Saturday as Notre Dame dominated Stanford 45-14 to move into the clubhouse at 11-1 in a season that against all odds will end as very much part of the College Football Playoff story. Coach Brian Kelly abandoned any pretense of being gentlemanly at the end of the game, [...]
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Of course, David Shaw has always been a villain to Notre Dame fans but as he's wrapping up his 11th season at Stanford the tide has inevitably turned on the coach as the struggles of the program have become more [...]
Notre Dame was nearly perfect in the 2021 home finale against Georgia Tech, scoring on every possession in the first half (with just one field goal) and shutting out the Yellow Jackets. The Irish continued to dominate inexperienced quarterbacks, and Jack Coan's recent run of passing efficiency hit levels Ian Book rarely matched against P5 [...]
Recent Comments