Open Portal: Ranking Notre Dame Football’s Transfer Needs (So Far)
The NCAA transfer portal for college football opens up this Monday, December 4th and will remain open all the way through Tuesday, January 2nd. As a reminder, graduate transfers are allowed to enter the transfer [...]
Top 100 2025 S Ivan Taylor Commits to Notre Dame
You want some good news about the Irish football program? Well boy howdy do we have some for you. Potential five-star safety Ivan Taylor became the second member of Notre Dame's 2025 defensive back class [...]
A Stupidly Early Look at the New 2024 ACC Football Conference
Our weeks-long wait until the bowl game is upon us. For this blog, it's the first step towards pivoting towards off-season content. As I searched for some ideas I got to wondering what the ACC [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Auburn Left Shaken & Stirred
The regular season is over (except Army-Navy of course) and now we await the concluding championship weekend before the last 4-team playoff, accompanied by the weird bowl system, finishes off this 2023 campaign. Here's the [...]
Stanford Game Review: The Radio Recap
It wasn't always pretty on Saturday evening in Palo Alto, although Notre Dame got the bad taste out of its mouth from last year with a definitive victory over Stanford to cap off the 2023 [...]
Sayonara, Pac-12 Network: Stanford Instant Reaction
When this season began, I doubt any Notre Dame fan was too concerned with watching the Pac-12 Network, but this is what you get for losing a couple of games you shouldn't have. Notre Dame [...]
Stanford Game Preview: The Bell Tolls for the Pac 12
Some of you may remember that last year I savaged - appropriately, I would say - the Stanford Cardinal in the contemporary game preview post. Stanford came into last year's game 1-4, with the one [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Too Calm for This Sport
For the second straight week we avoided chaos at the top of the rankings as things stabilize heading into rivalry weekend and the regular season finale of 2023. Here's the latest 18S Top 20 Poll. [...]
Wake Forest Game Review: A Satisfying Blowout
Notre Dame came into this Saturday's game against Wake Forest as heavy favorites on Senior Day and after a brief struggle to find momentum eventually put things in cruise control for an easy victory. Back-to-back [...]
Wake Forest Game Preview: Anyone Talking About This?
The tradition of ACC continues with another visit from Wake Forest, feel the excitement emanating from this article. At one point, this looked like an interesting matchup as Sam Hartman faces his old team but [...]
Advanced Stats Review: Clemson
The Notre Dame trip to Clemson ended up as a toss-up in the final numbers - SP+ gave the Irish a 43% expected win probability and an adjusted margin of -1.5 points. ND outgained the [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Making Your Own Adversity
Week 11 of the college football season brought us a near upset for Virginia, the top Dawgs asserting their dominance, Miami dropping their 4th ACC game, Washington holding serve at home, and much more including [...]
The 2023 Doing Good Things™ Report
The college football season is coming to its conclusion soon and during Notre Dame's 2nd bye week what better time than now to take a look at the head coach's doing a mighty fine job [...]
When will Notre Dame join the 21st Century on Offense?
Another week, another bitterly disappointing defeat against a team you can argue Notre Dame had no business losing to. A season that began with dreams of a playoff bid will now culminate in a 2nd [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Alabama Controlling Their Destiny
The 10th week of college football brought us an impressive offensive performance in Tuscaloosa, the defending champions remaining undefeated and extends their winning streak to 26 games, plus Washington stays atop of the Pac-12 with [...]
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