2026 College Football Week 9 Picks: Halloween Hot Picks
One more weekend and we're into the final month of the regular season. While the future 24-team playoff is on the horizon, this might be the last (somewhat) normal regular season we'll see in these [...]
The 24-Team Playoff Helps Notre Dame. It is Also Incredibly Stupid.
Honestly, I could just leave it at the title, but you guys come here for more than just snappy headlines, so let's go over my philosophical objections to the colossally dumb 24-team College Football Playoff [...]
Five Wide Fullbacks: Reassessing the Situation
Welcome back to a long overdue installment of Five Wide Fullbacks! This is the first 5WF I've done in 10 months, whoops. I guess time flies when you're having fun. Well, I guess things haven't [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Ranking: Bounce House Blues
The losses keep piling up for the nation's top teams and it's not likely to stop anytime soon. We should've seen the let down coming from BYU, meanwhile Texas Tech, Houston, Tennessee, Iowa, and USC [...]
2026 College Football Week 8 Picks: Backed into a Corner
It's cheeseburger time for Notre Dame as we reflect upon our sins and costly mistakes leading to the loss at BYU last Saturday night. With lots if introspection going on in South Bend the rest [...]
Notre Dame Football Scholarship & Roster Update: Fall Judgement
It's been a few months since our last update back in the middle of the summer. Since then, the 2027 class has been wrapped up (unofficially, but it appears to be sewn up) and we're [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Ranking: One of Those Weekends
Week 7 provided carnage with half of the top 10 losing games, including our beloved and bewildering Fighting Irish. It was a tough week for a lot of programs with many looking to regroup as [...]
Not Enough: BYU Instant Reaction
For all the talk of Leave No Doubt, for all the talk that things had changed, the first game of Notre Dame's two-game season was basically a replay of the 2025 Notre Dame team's first [...]
BYU Game Preview: Primetime 4,500 Feet Above the Sea
This one has been circled on the calendar all year. Now it's here and we have a pair of top 10 teams who meet on the field as unbeatens. The question many Irish fans are [...]
2026 College Football Week 7 Picks: Big Ten Bragging Rights
I've been ragging on the regular season a lot on this website. We're still getting ourselves a nice treat for week 7 with a loaded lineup of great games across the country. We have a [...]
Notre Dame Football 2026 Q2 Report: Time to Lock In
A bunch of thoughts about Notre Dame football after the first 6 games of the season… You can read the Q1 report HERE. Starting the season 6-0 is exactly where Notre Dame expected to be, [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Ranking: Go for Two
The Red River Rivalry delivered, and so did Alabama vs. Georgia. Nebraska let Indiana slip away, Kentucky keeps going for two, UCLA keeps winning, and Florida has thrown away all of its good will from [...]
Cleaning Your Plate: Stanford Instant Reaction
Delayed gratification. Unit Strength. The Golden Standard. Leave No Doubt. And now, Clean Your Plate. Marcus Freeman has come up with a bunch of kinda corny catchphrases in his time at Notre Dame. Clean Your [...]
Stanford Game Preview: Fulfilling Our Contractual Obligations
No one wanted to pick up this game preview during the off-season, and with good reason! Fine, I'll do it. There are still whispers of aspirational peers. West Coast return games to Palo Alto to [...]
2026 College Football Week 6 Picks: A Hopeful for the Crown
We have quality games on tap this weekend, but not a whole lot of them. A bunch are on the periphery of could-be-decent matchups for week 6 but didn't make the cut for my weekly [...]
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