To wrap up our celebration of the 18 Stripes 5-year anniversary I wanted to look back at my favorite moments on the field since the 2016 season began. You could also call these the best moments, as well. Whatever you call it we're having a good time. Instead of ranking the moments from worst to [...]
As we mentioned yesterday, we just passed our 5-year anniversary since the creation of 18 Stripes and I've been covering Irish football in one degree or another for about 14 years now. When I started on this journey I was 25 and next January I'll be 40 with 3 kids aged 4.5, 2.5, and 3 [...]
Two years we ago we debuted the 18 Stripes Hall of Fame Pyramid for Notre Dame football and its extensive history of wonderful talent. You can read the final rankings from 2019 HERE with links to the previous levels of the pyramid linked therein. In the months since I've discussed players who would likely make [...]
Movement! As we noted was likely in the last couple of updates, there has been movement all over the board with prospects finally able to take real recruiting visits to schools. We had four players go on the board and eight players come off it, with two of those arrivals also on the departure list. [...]
Welcome back to the Odyssey. As always, you can click here to read all parts of the journey covered so far. Last time, we took a look at the 2001 Big 12 season. Today, we're going into our first game in the journey of the end of this season; Nebraska going to Boulder to take [...]
Ever since last year's schedule got jumbled up and rearranged I purposely stayed away from thinking too much about the 2021 Notre Dame opponents. Well, except for that time in early January when I looked at the likely quarterbacks the Irish would face (Part 1 & Part 2) as a bit of a warning of [...]
Notre Dame football got one step closer to filling out its elite linebacker haul of 2022 today when linebacker Niuafe "Junior" Tuihalamaka verbally committed to the Fighting Irish. The 6'2"/235-pounder out of Mission Hills, CA is the 15th player to join Notre Dame's recruiting class of 2022 -- a class which currently ranks #2 in [...]
It's the return of the world famous Five Wide Fullbacks. The layout is simple. Five questions and five honest answers. Today, we're focusing on the hog mollies. Is the recent transfer in from Marshall good enough, will the transfer market burn players in the end, updates on Jarrett Patterson, and more! Plus, are allowed to [...]
Well, that escalated quickly. This past Wednesday a handful of reports surfaced that a committee was working on a plan to expand the College Football Playoff and by the early afternoon on Thursday, June 10th the CFP Working Group came out with details on a proposal that would enlarge the post-season to 12 teams. This [...]
Welcome back to the Odyssey. As always, you can click here to read all parts of the journey covered so far. Last time, we took a look at the 2001 Pac-10 season. Today, we're going to take a look at the 2001 Big 12 season. This conference has many heavy hitters; with defending National Champions, [...]
This offseason we’ll be breaking down the performance of each unit – passing and rushing offense and defense – with a look ahead to 2021 and what this means for the Irish. Next is the Notre Dame passing game, which overachieved in Ian Book's final year thanks to a mini-leap at QB, a veteran receiving [...]
The college football world is abuzz with newfound energy this week, as the NCAA's COVID-related dead period finally ended when the calendar flipped to June. Some schools even hosted a basketball-style "Midnight Madness" and welcomed recruits into their facilities as the clock chimed its way into the new month. We can understand the excitement, given [...]
When you think of a really bad offensive gameplan under Brian Kelly which game pops into your head? The hurricane game against NC State? Several others from 2016? Maybe the Tulsa game from 2010? Arizona State or USC from 2014? May I submit the loss to Michigan in 2013? People think I shouldn't do this [...]
In Part 1 of this series we looked at the freshmen of the 2020 recruiting class, the impact they made last fall, and their immediate future with Notre Dame. Today we'll look at the defense where there's a distinctly different feel to a smaller group that, outside of one player, didn't make a big impact [...]
Due to the pandemic technically none of the 2020 freshmen exhausted a year of eligibility, although in practice of course many players will not be staying at Notre Dame for the next 5 seasons or maybe even playing college football for that long. At any rate, every 2020 freshmen will be featured today for the [...]
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