Well, this lessons learned session is going to be a little less fun than it seemed at the halfway point, but as promised, here we are to review our preseason predictions now that the regular season has wrapped up. The bowl game could change things slightly, but I don't think it would make a big [...]
Today we move on to our 26th uniform concept for Notre Dame football. You may have noticed to this point that we're definitely stepping outside the box with some of these and one of the many ways to produce different concepts is to mess around with combinations of shades of colors. Today's effort is messing [...]
While we sit and wait for Notre Dame's bowl game to be announced we will satisfy ourselves with an enticing weekend of conference championship matchups. There's still much jockeying to go before the last College Football Playoff poll is announced next week. Top 11 1 Oklahoma (+1, 11-1, 59-31 W vs. West Virginia) The Sooners [...]
It was another annoying loss to Stanford dropping Notre Dame from a wind-in-their-sails 10-2 season and NY6 bowl appearance to a horrible taste in the mouth 9-3 season and a forgettable second-tier bowl game. This makes it 5 straight regular season finale losses for the Fighting Irish and the 23rd out of the last 24 [...]
All week, ND players and coaches basically apologized for what happened in Miami 2 weeks ago. They swore up and down that this week of preparation went better leading up to a game the Irish had to win to make a New Year's 6 bowl. It seems pretty clear they were just trying to convince [...]
The Fighting Irish head to Palo Alto this Saturday with much on the line. Before we get into the deep stuff below, on the surface Notre Dame has lost its last 4 trips to Stanford which sucks really bad. The last time the Irish beat Stanford on the road the first edition of the iPhone [...]
You thought 5WF was completely out of your lives? Please don't ever think something like that would happen. We had to get one in during the football season before some juicy topics pass us by. To the questions we go. 1 Three high-profile jobs are open in Florida, Tennessee, and UCLA. Are the Gators easily [...]
If you were in the Navy Week Game Chat this past Saturday, you might have picked up that Murtaugh was able to hook me up with a sweet press pass for the game. It was a pretty cool experience. I got to see all the action of the game from a heated press box, I [...]
Just one more week in the regular season and the rankings here at 18 Stripes remain as steady as they have all season. Thanks primarily to a large buffet of cupcakes but this weekend brings rivalries a'plenty for your viewing pleasure. Top 11 1 Alabama (E, 11-0, 56-0 W vs. Mercer) Poor, Mercer. 2 Oklahoma [...]
For a good long while it was shaping up to be a classic loss to Navy. The opponent was executing a time-sucking ball possession game perfectly. One good Notre Dame play was met with a momentum stopping positive play by Navy. Ball carriers were caught for little gain and wiggling free for positive yards. Previously [...]
Notre Dame had started putting together another winning streak against Navy (5 straight) before messing things up and losing in Jacksonville (man, Florida hasn't been kind to us) last year. By the way, how bad was 2016 that the loss to Navy was probably only the 3rd most outrageous defeat of the season? Perhaps I'm [...]
From late March until today we've made our way through 25 uniform concepts for Notre Dame football. Twenty-five! When we started I swore I'd never do a gold jersey concept out of principle. I'd rather see the Irish wear black, gray, or some other non-school color first. Then I saw THIS cover from Sports Illustrated [...]
Wait, what happened last weekend? Did Notre Dame play? I thought we had a bye? How many of you have to deal with the pity from your friends? That's way worse than anyone rubbing it in, way worse. Oh well, onward and upward to another week my friends. Top 11 1 Alabama (+1, 10-0, 31-24 [...]
Today's post welcomes our 24th uniform concept for Notre Dame football. Only 1 out of our last 10 concepts have featured a navy blue jersey so let's get back to the traditional home uniform right now. To keep something old school we went back with TV numbers on the sleeves and a pretty basic jersey [...]
This has been my first football season as a father and through the afternoon of November 11th it had been such a great experience. By Saturday night I shuffled off to bed with that all-too-familiar sinking feeling in my stomach. I lay in bed thinking about my daughter and how she'd cheer me up in [...]
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