Maybe we should've seen it coming. Penn State, coming off an emotional overtime loss at home to Oregon, had to travel across the country to Los Angeles and probably severely overlooked a wounded UCLA squad with a little bit of talent. As 24.5 point road favorites, that's exactly what Penn State did as they served [...]
You could slice up this game a bunch of different ways. Was it an easy win? Was it a win that was far too difficult? Did we watch more of a clinic on poor officiating? The correct answer seems to be all of the above. The final score won't turn heads but on sweltering South [...]
A game neither team can afford to lose if they want to repeat last season's success, but a team one must win and effectively eliminate from the mystical magical imaginary CFP race. I'm guessing neither one of these teams thought this was the game stakes when it was first scheduled and even back in August. [...]
We're in the thick of the college football season as week 6 is upon us. Through September, 116 of the 136 FBS teams have lost at least one game. Oregon State, UMass, Sam Houston, and UCLA are the remaining winless teams in the nation. The 20 undefeated teams thus far include: AAC: Navy, Memphis, North [...]
Week 5 brought the hammer for several teams up high in our 18 Stripes rankings. Worst among the bunch was a shocking loss from Florida State while LSU, Georgia, and Penn State all lost to good competition. That equals first defeats to 4 out of the top 7. Now it's time for a re-rank heading [...]
Notre Dame went down to Arkansas this Saturday with the thought its offense might have to score on every possession to try and win the game. That ended up not being necessary but the Irish offense obliged anyway. It was a tense game for about 20 minutes before this game got ugly quickly in favor [...]
One of these years, perhaps Notre Dame fans will get used to the Irish responding to being pushed to the brink of doom. Year after year it has occurred and year after year ND brings its A game just when fan pessimism is at its height. There was no question of the Irish's A game [...]
Prior to the season this game was marked down as a potential highlight of 2025 if both programs could get to late September unbeaten. Well, scratch that both teams have let the college football world down (to be fair both sides are extremely close to being a combined 7-0 as well) and now we're getting [...]
Now we're getting into the thick of conference schedules. We've messed around on the edges a little bit and this weekend some proper bangers are headed our way to start separating teams and developing some early playoff rankings. Normally, Alabama and Georgia would carry the weekend but we have a huge Big Ten matchup (still [...]
There was a lot of offense out there in week 4 of the college football season. That included Notre Dame slicing its way through Purdue's defense, that was pretty fun. For now, we don't need to talk about the other side of the ball for the Irish. It was a quiet week nationally with not [...]
Notre Dame teetered on pass defense, dealt with a lightning delay reaching nearly 2 hours, and finally picked up its first win of the season thanks to a nearly flawless performance from the offense. If only the Irish could play Purdue every week, this whole college football fandom thing would be pretty fun. It was [...]
Two years in a row Notre Dame came into a matchup with Purdue deflated. Two years in a row the Irish have left the matchup with a W, though this one was a bit different. That probably says as much about Purdue - no longer a complete train wreck - as it does about Notre [...]
Looking back at last year, it seems funny. Notre Dame was coming off a loss to Northern Illinois and everyone was in the dumps. Purdue had shutout Indiana State in their opener and were coming off a week 2 bye week. Only 53 weeks ago, Vegas had the Irish as just 9.5 point favorites while [...]
This is the wedding weekend. Notre Dame finally has an afternoon kickoff as a heavy favorite, the national lineup is quite weak, and you're free to go do other things with your life. If you must. However, if you're a true Sicko there's always something fun to find amongst the cupcakes and bye weeks. Actually, [...]
It was a dark week for Notre Dame who opens the season 0-2 and quickly tumbles out of the 18 Stripes Top 20. Spoiler alert! The great thing about college football is watching the misery of other teams as well, though. There's always plenty of that to go around. Heck, we already have two power [...]
Recent Comments