It's been a pretty standard drumbeat ever since the announcement came down in July that for one season, Notre Dame football would play a conference schedule, in the ACC. It might get a little louder over the next week-plus, as we lead up to the ACC title game between the Irish and Clemson. "Will they [...]
Well, that was fun, wasn’t it? Last week in this space I thought Coastal would blow the doors off of Liberty if they met on the field. Turns out, through a COVID outbreak at Liberty, BYU was easily slid in as an opponent. It was a crazy 48 hours to get to a historic matchup, [...]
Notre Dame didn't quite move into upset watch in the first half against Syracuse but things were tense for far too long. Thanks to a late 2nd quarter flurry, the Irish built up a nice halftime lead and spent the rest of the game keeping the Orange at arm's length to clinch a comfortable, if [...]
Rex Culpepper’s play went viral this past Saturday for his mistake of spiking the ball on 4th and Goal with the game on the line against NC State. I won’t dive much into that because a) there really isn’t too much to dive into and b) I tend to give Culpepper a pass on these [...]
No Saban, no problem for the Tide in the Iron Bowl, Trevor Lawrence returned with authority for Clemson, Northwestern falls on their face, Iowa State moves closer to a Big 12 regular season title, and the Ducks lose to their in-state rivals. All that, plus more in the recap after our latest 18 Stripes Top [...]
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 [...]
More so than any other season of college football, 2020 has proven to be the ultimate test for coaches. The pandemic has produced more unique challenges for every program and the cream has truly risen to the top when it comes to coaching. Now, I wanted take a moment to talk about the coaches who [...]
Yes, I went three for three on song lyric references in the title. No, I'm not going to apologize for it. Not a lot of changes this week as a bunch of the games I would have been looking forward to were canceled or postponed throughout the week leading to no major changes up top. [...]
I can't tell you how many times over the years I've read comments from Notre Dame fans that just casually throw it out there that the Irish could win the National Championship if such and such (usually couched in extremely likely terms) happened soon. Maybe it's a star recruit about to sign, or a player [...]
Any time you're dumb enough to pick against this Notre Dame team it's important to trust what your eyes have seen in 2020 and to believe in Clark Lea. And also, believe in Tommy Rees. And Ian Book. And...well you get the point. Following a scary opening to the game that saw North Carolina's offense [...]
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, [...]
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