Notre Dame is set to open the season on Labor Day evening live from Louisville. As usual, it's been a long off-season and yet a pretty quiet one until August camp began and more news items started hitting the Irish landscape. Before the ball kicks off I wanted to recap some of the things going [...]
Aaaaaand... We're back, folks! It's been a loooong [checks calendar] eight months without college football. We're maybe not better than ever after the schlock-fest that opened the season this past weekend. (Can we really consider what Florida and Miami did "football"? And how on earth did Hawaii go -4 on turnover margin and still beat Arizona?) [...]
The 2009 Notre Dame football season marked the end of an era in South Bend. The Irish finished 6-6 on the field after a wild season which saw 10 one-possession games and their third consecutive year of 7-wins or less. Charlie Weis was fired by second-year AD Jack Swarbrick after Weis started his career by [...]
College Football kicked off this past Saturday night with a highly viewed Week 0 matchup between Florida and Miami that was as sloppy as it was entertaining. Another Power 5 conference team also got their season started way off in the island of Hawaii and didn't fare so well. As we head into the first [...]
This article has been in the works for a long time but keeping track of football cleats accurately in today's era where uniformity is thrown to the wind can be a fool's errand. Also, the majority of photographs either omit players' feet or are too far away get a good look at the cleats so [...]
We are mere hours away from the start of the 2019 college football season as week 0 kicks off on Saturday with a matchup between a pair of Florida programs. Therefore, it's time to unveil the pre-season 18 Stripes Top 20 poll. But first, let's take a look back at my pre-season rankings from a [...]
This will be our last practice report for the year as Wednesday was the final full practice viewing by the media before the season begins at Louisville. Accordingly, the Irish have transitioned from fall camp to preparations for the Cardinals which usually indicates the roster and depth chart are pretty solidified for the upcoming September [...]
Eleven measly little days until the Irish take the field for the first time since... uh... well, we won't talk about that. We're once again asking you, our beloved readers, for your opinions, projections, joy, saltiness, etc. for the upcoming season. We'll have this up for about a week and then write a summary of [...]
Notre Dame has finished up 12 sets of fall camp practices following a full media viewing workout inside the stadium on Saturday. As we head towards the home stretch of camp before the opener at Louisville here's the top story lines surrounding the Irish football team. The Receiving Corps is Thinned Out Bad injury news [...]
In my house, I have a box that is filled with Notre Dame memorabilia that is sentimental to me. Among those items are a College Gameday helmet from 2012, various free shirts from basketball games, and now a 33 Trucking hat. The hat reminded me about the turnaround the Irish had in 2017 and how [...]
As we touched on the other day in the "Windows of Opportunity" post, Notre Dame's success over the last couple of seasons has positioned the program to reach some milestones in 2019. There are additional rivalry milestones available to the team, as well as individual milestones for a few key players. Winning The Irish could [...]
Changing up your uniforms, even for one game, need not be complicated if you follow one rule: If you're going an alternate route dive in with vigor and if you're doing a throwback get it right with the correct era specifications. On Tuesday, the Fighting Irish debuted a 1988 throwback uniform to be worn on [...]
Notre Dame has gone 22-4 over the last two seasons, a level of success that Irish fans haven't seen in a long time. That's very good, obviously, Clemson freight train status aside, and raises a couple of interesting questions: How long, exactly, is a long time? Where does this two-year stretch stand in the post-World [...]
Notre Dame held their first practice of fall camp on campus Saturday afternoon while allowing the media its 3rd viewing in less than a week. There will be a small glimpse of practice on Monday morning but the next full viewing will take place on Saturday, August 17th inside Notre Dame Stadium. We'll get to [...]
Unless you've been living under an internet-less rock, a terrific preseason tradition is the annual preseason ranking of Notre Dame's top 25 players at Inside the Irish. Once again our 18 Stripes crew was invited to participate, and as in past years we submitted a group ballot, using some "wisdom of the crowd" or whatever [...]
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