Notre Dame has picked itself up from 2 opening season losses and climbed back into the good graces of the country with a trio of wins by a combined 140-50 score line. Following a 2-0 start in ACC play--including a now more impressive win over Virginia--we see NC State coming to South Bend wounded after [...]

My plan this week in the intro was to talk about undefeated Maryland and how their game against Nebraska this weekend suddenly had some meaning nationally, or at least for the upper half of the Big Ten pecking order. The Terps led 20-0 over Washington late in the 3rd quarter last week and ended up [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]