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 [...]
Clemson Game Review: Bring Your Own Pitchforks
The line heading into this game did feel a little curious but it's example 9 million of how Vegas knows best as the Irish crashed and burned their boats on another trip Clemson on Saturday [...]
Advanced Stats Review: Pitt
The Irish defense dominated, special teams fueled an early lead and some late style points, and the Notre Dame offense righted the ship after a shaky start to demolish Pitt. For a second straight game [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: A Small Playoff Shakeup
Washington continues to look wobbly following the win over Oregon but haven't dropped one since with a couple close calls. The same can't be said for Oklahoma who got rock chalked over the weekend and [...]
18S Mid Major Top Ten: Survival Saturday
Sorry for the lack of Mid Major Content, the 18S family grew by one more last Monday. Do not worry, the little one already has gotten the talk from me that we love Notre Dame [...]
Pittsburgh Game Review: Simply Not a Problem
Notre Dame came out with a few mistakes offensively then put some adversity behind them to bury the Pitt Panthers on Saturday afternoon in South Bend. The win moves the Irish to 7-2 in Marcus [...]
Pittsburgh Game Preview: No Love Lost
After a 2-year break the historic rivalry game between Notre Dame and Pittsburgh is back on this weekend live from South Bend. Back in the 2020 meeting, quarterback Kenny Pickett was injured, Pitt gained 162 [...]
Advanced Stats Review: USC
Using counting stats, it's tempting to construct the narrative that Notre Dame's massive win over USC was fluky. A 5-0 turnover margin, a special teams touchdown, more total yards for the Trojans and just 255 [...]
Five Wide Fullbacks: If You’re Looking for an OC
Five Wide Fullbacks returns as Notre Dame comes off a bye week and prepares to re-start the season this Saturday against Pittsburgh in South Bend. On this week's edition of 5WF we are tackling bowl [...]
22 Football Questions for Notre Dame’s Leadership in 2024 and Beyond
It was announced just under 5 months ago that Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick would be retiring at the end of the 2023-24 academic school year and on Friday night October 13th the university [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: A New Number One
After week 7 we have a new no. 1 in the 18S poll thanks to Washington's come-from-behind victory over Oregon. Huskies are superior to Bulldogs in every way so this is okay. Outside of that, [...]
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