Notre Dame Fall Camp Begins: Fresh Info on the 2026 Irish
Notre Dame opened up fall camp on Thursday, August 6th in South Bend with expectations plenty high and perhaps rising even further as the country learns more about this edition of the Fighting Irish. Although [...]
ND’s One True Rivalry is (Eventually) Back: Notre Dame, Southern Cal to Play from 2030-33
After much hemming and hawing through the media, Notre Dame and USC announced a 4-year agreement Monday to play their historic rivalry game starting in 2030. The series will start at SC in 2030 and [...]
The 18 Stripes 2026 Pre-Season Top 20 Ranking: The 157th Edition of College Football
Welcome back to the first top 20 ranking of the 2026 season. It's good to be back in this space and ready to lock in for another season of college football. As always, change continues [...]
New Shields Hall: The Greatest Collection of Notre Dame Signage
A while ago, Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman attended a ground breaking ceremony with a hard hat on looking forward to a new football facility being built off Courtney Lane across from the new [...]
2026 Notre Dame Fall Camp Preview: Defense
Does the Notre Dame defense have fewer questions than the offense? We think so yes, many are expecting the Irish defense to contend for the best unit in the nation. The offense could enter that [...]
2026 Notre Dame Fall Camp Preview: Offense
Going into fall camp last season, technically the team was bringing back more starters on offense overall (compared to 2026) and you could've made the case for decent stability. However, the program was coming off [...]
College Football Power Program 2026 Head Coaching Grades
Last off-season was a quiet market for new head coaching candidates at the power program level with only 6 new jobs filled, and the focus largely spent on Bill Belichick's sucking media attention away from [...]
Shamrock Series 2026 Uniforms: A Nod to the Acme Packers (Very Minimally)
Notre Dame football unveiled their 2026 Shamrock Series uniforms on Wednesday morning via a near 2-minute sharply produced video HERE heavily describing the ties between the Fighting Irish and Green Bay Packers NFL organization. It [...]
Notre Dame Football Scholarship & Roster Update: Another Recalibration
Our last roster update came on March 30th in the early weeks of spring practice. Since then, the annual onslaught of late spring and early summer commits has happened, plus the NCAA rule book continues [...]
18 Stripes 10th Anniversary Celebration
Ten years ago today we launched www.18stripes.com and I can't believe it's been that long. A decade, already? Some may know our background from the past. We had been plugging along at One Foot Down [...]
An Early Look at the 2026 Notre Dame Opponent Quarterbacks: Games 10-12
You'll hear this a million times this year as Notre Dame opens up the season with very winnable games. In our last post covering the beginning of the second half of the season, things start [...]
Bad Uniforms, Volume 5: Never Trust Cam Cameron
No alternate or one-off uniforms here. This is a series discussing the worst standard uniform changes in modern college football. The Lead Up If you're under 35 you may remember Cam Cameron as the offensive [...]
An Early Look at the 2026 Notre Dame Opponent Quarterbacks: Games 7-9
The first two installments in this series probably weren't read by that many people and highlight the poor schedule strength for the Fighting Irish to open the 2026 season. A 6-0 start is expected, perhaps [...]
An Early Look at the 2026 Notre Dame Opponent Quarterbacks: Games 4-6
Notre Dame will be hoping to enter this portion of the schedule at 3-0, although the projected best quarterback of the first half of 2026 is expected in the opener at Lambeau Field. You can [...]
An Early Look at the 2026 Notre Dame Opponent Quarterbacks: Games 1-3
Notre Dame is expected to open up the 2026 season with a very manageable schedule, some would even call it quite easy. Not so fast! Does does some danger lurk in September during a time [...]
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