For the record, I'm sorry for the easy pun headline, but come on, on a night ND's own Twitter account turned off the "No Trolling" sign, how do you not go with it? Exit sandman. Final: ND 45 - VT 23.#GoIrish☘️ #NDvsVT pic.twitter.com/mPCgI59e03 — Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) October 7, 2018 The Irish won 45-23. [...]
This weekend ticks off a Notre Dame road game bucket list. Although the first game of this series came 2 years ago during the forgettable 2016 season (can you remember much from the previous meeting?) it's this inaugural trip to Lane Stadium that has been among the Top 10 must-visit homes in college football for [...]
Welcome back to the 18 Stripes Film Room. Dexter Williams returned to the field on Saturday and responded by slicing through the Stanford defense for a touchdown on his first carry behind a plethora of tight ends and pulling linemen. So pull out your lunch pail because we're talking some smash mouth football today. The [...]
Notre Dame put up some insane numbers in the win over the Cardinal. Instead of the usual categories, it seemed like a great occasion to count down some of the best numbers from the Irish defense smothering Bryce Love and JJ Arcega-Whiteside, the extremely efficient Book-Boykin connection, and an insane amount of havoc. When you [...]
Notre Dame is still undefeated and slowly climbing up the polls, so that's awesome. There remains a problem ahead of the Irish as the blue-chip teams haven't had a hiccup yet. Ohio State nearly suffered one and comes out of Happy Valley barely alive. 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll RANK TEAM RECORD LAST WEEK [...]
Notre Dame found itself controlling the game against Stanford in the first half although the score didn't totally reflect the momentum that was slowly building. In the second half, the Fighting Irish put on a clinic to completely dominate the visiting Cardinal and move to 5-0 on the season. Let's review Notre Dame's major 21-point [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, start your Notre Dame playoff scenarios. — Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) September 30, 2018 This is not a conversation I thought we would be having a couple of weeks ago, but Notre Dame is officially in the race after creaming Stanford Saturday 38-17. Before the game, at least one 18S writer asked the [...]
Guys, we did a thing on Special Teams. No, it was not a Newsome punt (still a heavenly sight but the less we see of Tyler, the better we are), but a return. A proper one, at that. Lost in the excitement over us doing something in the return game is the fact that it [...]
The year was 1996. It was the end of the Lou Holtz era and the Fighting Irish were finishing up a 2-year break from a 6-year run of playing Stanford each season. Up until this point, Notre Dame was 8-3-0 all-time against the Cardinal and despite a pair of crushing losses in the early 90's [...]
Welcome back to the 18 Stripes Film Room. I've been off the past few weeks recruiting grizzly bears for Larz's secret training program. It's hard work but someone has to do it. Today we're going to take a look at Ian Book's touchdown pass to Chase Claypool. It's a good look at how Chip Long [...]
For the first time this season, Notre Dame dominated an opponent in virtually every category of advanced stats. The Irish were perfect in the red zone leaning on a spread run game, and had the 3rd highest efficiency advantage of any P5 vs P5 game last week. Before garbage time Notre Dame out-gained Wake Forest [...]
From the 1925 Rose Bowl to Charlie Weis's penultimate season in 2008, Notre Dame and Stanford met 23 times. Notre Dame won 17 of those games, usually in resounding fashion; the average Irish win featured an 18.5 point scoring margin. Included in that 17-6 record is a seven game win streak from 2002 to 2008. [...]
The rankings are beginning to shake up after an eventful week 4 although the top teams held off a couple upsets to keep things relatively stable inside the Top 10. At some point, the national favorites have to lose, right? One of Notre Dame's upcoming opponents suffered one of the worst upsets of the year [...]
Notre Dame's offense needed a spark on Saturday afternoon and received a jolt of TNT via the controversial insertion of redshirt sophomore quarterback Ian Book. While keeping Brandon Wimbush on the bench the Irish offense exploded for one of the best road game performances in recent years, perhaps recasting the future of the offense as [...]
Notre Dame sits at 3-0 and ranked in the top ten this week. You would think that's a good place to be, but many Irish fans understandably grumbled about the offense's performance to date. Now it looks like that performance might have the coaching staff grumbling too; word leaked out yesterday via multiple outlets that [...]
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