Every year I remember to do so, I like to examine the Notre Dame football schedule for signs of those always-dangerous spots on the schedule known as the Trap Games, in honor of the great Admiral Ackbar (RIP), who to this day I wish would've been the Ole Miss mascot. I rate those trap games [...]
In the end, Week 2 was a little more fun than expected with chaos outside of the top of the rankings. The top teams nary had a struggle with our top 8 teams in action winning by a combined 384-29. That was almost as easy as Notre Dame's bye week. Elsewhere, across the country fans [...]
I haven't done the research but it feels like in recent years Week 3 and especially Week 2 are really dreadful for college football entertainment as some programs continue to pull back from out of conference matchups. This weekend is really only for the true college fans, I wouldn't blame someone for being more in [...]
My pre-season poll was so bad that the top 3 teams, and 4 out of the top 5, all lost in week 1. Phew! And, it could've been worse but the no. 4 team played the no. 1 team. How could these teams do this to me? Anyway, a big reshuffle is in order at [...]
The nightmares continue playing Miami on the road. Notre Dame opened up the 2025 season with high hopes as the road favorite but now fly back to South Bend after suffering a close but very frustrating loss to the Hurricanes. Some bright spots were able to shine through and credit to the team for fighting [...]
It was one thing to lose. Beating good teams on the road is hard, and Miami is a good team. What was frustrating was seeing almost every position unit that was supposed to be awesome fail Notre Dame so consistently in Sunday night's 27-24 loss on the road. The offensive line was supposedly so good [...]
The month of August ends on Sunday with the Fighting Irish closing out the first weekend* of the college football season in primetime on ABC against the Miami Hurricanes. Only 192 days ago, Notre Dame lost the National Championship Game to Ohio State and now we get to start a new campaign in Marcus Freeman's [...]
Last October during the college football season we made the decision to open up our own 18 Stripes server on Discord. If you'd like to read the reasoning why check it out HERE. It's been almost 11 months and since opening the server we've added a few new channels. However, for most of our readers [...]
Look, no one expected what happened last year, not even the most Kool-Aid chugging optimist. While it didn't end well, it sure was a fun ride. For the first time in many years, the Irish are back coming in with a high rankings and lofty expectations while the rest of the country doesn't seem too [...]
The weekly picks articles are back with college football opening up this weekend. Well, since there's a week 0 the next picks article won't come for a couple more weeks after Week 1 is fully finished. I finished 2024 on a nice run going 6-3 during conference championship weekend. That brought the ATS record back [...]
Notre Dame's competitive, contentious, and controversial quarterback battle finally came to an end on Tuesday afternoon with the announcement that redshirt freshman CJ Carr won the job. A couple months ago, maybe even a few weeks ago, this was viewed as somewhat of a formality by many following the Fighting Irish. But it didn't quite [...]
We have a good idea of the situation at most positions for Notre Dame football as kickoff in Miami moves closer. However, another August of mostly closed practices leaves mystery and intrigue surrounding a handful of spots on the roster. The most overwhelmingly public of those being the quarterback position and the massive decision which [...]
The 2025 college football season kicks off in a couple weeks. In case you missed it, we published our pre-season Top 20 rankings HERE that will start as the basis for today's look at the run into the second incarnation of the 12-team playoff. As a reminder, the playoff format remains largely the same from [...]
With a name like that, was there really ever any other option? Notre Dame (probably) put a lovely bow on its 2026 recruiting class today when blue-chip defensive lineman Elijah Golden announced for the Irish. The 6'4", 275-pound Floridian is the 27th and, barring an in-season surprise, very likely the final commitment of the cycle. [...]
I'm going to be real. By mid-season these top 20 posts can become a drag when we're piecing together our own list while the AP, Coach's Poll, and eventually the playoff committee are all converging on their favored teams. But for the pre-season, with the whole season ahead of us and National Championship dreams in [...]
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