Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. A return as a head coach isn't supposed to work out very often. Just ask Randy Edsall whose UConn team is sitting out 2020 through the pandemic after going 6-30 in their coach's second stint at Storrs. That fate hasn't affected Mack Brown to date who returned to Chapel Hill last [...]
Notre Dame picked up another defensive back in its 2021 class today when corner JoJo Johnson announced for the Irish. The 5'11", 180-pound Hoosier picked up his Notre Dame offer two days ago and wasted little time - none, if you believe some of the message board rumors - committing. Irish cornerbacks coach Mike Mickens [...]
Alabama won by 60, Ohio State held off Indiana, Cincinnati skated past UCF, Wisconsin flopped in Evanston, Coastal Carolina won a tough game against App State, USC dropped Utah, and we were an overtime away from seriously ranking Rutgers, you guys. A full recap after our latest Top 20 rankings. 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll [...]
Welcome back to the Playoff Big Board, here in the strangest of college football seasons. Usually our board consists of all ranked undefeated teams and all ranked one-loss Power 5 teams in the committee rankings. I’m going to tweak it a bit this year to reflect all those teams that I believe are seriously on [...]
Cheeseburgers were moderately helpful for Notre Dame this week, as five of the six remaining game win probabilities in SP+ and FPI inched upwards (the sixth stayed level, if you're wondering). The overall picture hasn't appreciably changed from last week; both models have it as roughly a coin flip for the Irish to win out, [...]
Welcome back to the 18S G5 Top 10. Last week I realized in the excitement of releasing the first edition I forgot to mention what the criteria is for the list. After a week of games, I take a look into a combination of a few things; on the field play, opponent quality, ability to [...]
We are approaching a decade since the major conference realignment recast college football and helped to usher in the playoff era of today. The topic of further expansion or contraction of conference ebbs and flows over the years but has mostly remained a dormant discussion outside of a rare treatise on the future of Texas [...]
Not once, not twice, but three times this week Notre Dame football has flipped a prospect from another school. This time it's offensive tackle Caleb Johnson, whose recruitment was well under way when the Irish finally offered back in March. The 6'7", 295-pound Florida resident and Fort Wayne native had some natural interest in Notre [...]
Notre Dame laid another length in its Polynesian pipeline today when linebacker Kahanu Kia announced his commitment. The 6'2", 220-pound Hawaiian hails from Punahou, which is also the alma mater of current Irish linebacker Marist Liufau and former Irish players Manti Te'o and Robby Toma. Perhaps not coincidentally, Toma is currently an assistant at Punahou [...]
Notre Dame worked its second flip of the week on the recruiting trail when former Colorado pledge Josh Bryan announced his commitment to the Irish. Rumors have been floating for a while that the Notre Dame staff had some interest in the 6'0", 190-pound Californian, but in what was originally expected to be a tight [...]
Notre Dame caught a rather important boomerang in its 2021 class when blue-chip cornerback Philip Riley announced his re-commitment on Tuesday. His recruitment was a bit of a roller coaster that might normally raise some red flags, but when you add context to it it's much less worrisome. A brief timeline: Riley, a Florida resident [...]
Florida makes its case as the 2nd best team in the SEC, Miami escapes again, Indiana keeps on winning, Cincinnati isn't slowing down, while Michigan may be folding their program soon. This and more from this past week of college football. 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll RANK TEAM RECORD NEXT 1 Alabama 6-0 BYE [...]
With this topsy turvy season finally underway and the emergence of non-powers in the AP Top 25, we decided at 18S to have a top 10 G5 Poll in parallel with the usual top 20 on a weekly basis. This season has been a fun one for the non-power schools, with many of the teams [...]
There were moments and exchanges in the first half against Boston College that had Irish fans worried we'd have to buckle our seat belts for a tight game and possible upset. However, a flurry of plays and an excellent offensive performance that put the ball in the end zone allowed Notre Dame to pull away [...]
"Let the past die...Kill it, if you have to." Today, Notre Dame followed Kylo Ren's advice and put away the whole "lose to BC a week after beating #1" storyline with a fairly easy 45-31 win over the Eagles. The game had no real business being that close, but whatever. The Irish moved to 8-0 [...]
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