Advanced Stats Review: NC State
The combination of stormy weather plus an aggressive NC State defense created Notre Dame's first significant adversity of 2023, but a a strong defensive performance and explosive plays from the offense allowed the Irish to [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Monitoring the Texas is Back Hype
Another week of college football is complete and it was a relatively quiet one in terms of upsets. Well, except for Alabama losing at home as 7-point favorites to the Texas Longhorns. Can we say [...]
18S Mid Major Top Ten: Where Have All The Elite Teams Gone?
After a Week 1 quick break due to sickness and holidays, the Mid Major Top Ten has returned! We had some weird results over the past two Saturdays and we are going to dive into [...]
NC State Game Review: Irish Run Away from the Pack
It took nearly 5.5 hours but we finally got there. On Saturday, Notre Dame moved to 3-0 with a somewhat sluggish and messy yet convincing win over NC State in Raleigh. After the 1st quarter [...]
Escaping the Flood: NC State Instant Reaction
Notre Dame fans spent 3 quarters mostly fretting, complaining, maybe even doubting as the Irish slopped to a 7-point lead against NC State. ND won by three touchdowns, 45-24. It's a choose-your-own-adventure type of day [...]
NC State Game Preview: Checking the Weather Report
With all due respect to Navy and Tennessee State, the Notre Dame season begins in earnest on Saturday afternoon as the Irish travel to Raleigh, North Carolina to face the NC State Wolfpack. Seven years [...]
Advanced Stats Review: Tennessee State
Notre Dame dominated Tennessee State as expected, with a a huge second quarter propelling Notre Dame to a game that reached garbage time by halftime. The Irish continued the early trend started in Dublin - [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Colorado is Must-Watch Television
A long Labor Day weekend stretched the first full week of games out and gave us plenty to talk about now that college football is officially back. Crazy how we are just days away from [...]
Tennessee State Game Review: A Three Quarterback Kind of Day
Notre Dame lined up against a FCS team on Saturday in South Bend and the results were predictable. After an initial tussle of back and forth play, the Irish exploded for a copious amount of [...]
The Little Things: Tennessee State Instant Reaction
You obviously learn nothing of significance out of games like Saturday's 56-3 win over Tennessee State. The opponent is simply not good enough to make major qualitative judgments about your own team in such contests. [...]
Tennessee State Preview: Icebreaker
As of 3:30 PM Eastern Time this Saturday there will be one remaining FBS program that has never played an FCS program, and it won't be Notre Dame.* Joe Montana's Notre Dame will host Too [...]
Advanced Stats Review: Navy
Professional. Efficient. Clean. The opening test of the season wasn't an especially tough one, but Notre Dame still studied and passed with flying colors in a dominant win over Navy in Dublin. Sam Hartman led [...]
18S Film Room: Irish’s Misdirection Play: Counter
The most prominent running play against the Midshipmen was, in my opinion, the Counter play. Counter is a gap blocking scheme play that utilizes misdirection and masses of humanity to create often devastating holes in [...]
18S Mid Major Top Ten: Now I Become Realignment, Destroyer of Group of 5
So, that was an interesting offseason huh? Even before the seeming dissolution of the Pac-Whatever as a power conference, I was thinking during this spring and summer about how to approach this column going into [...]
Navy Game Review: The Shillelagh Will Now Guide Us
The good vibes continue when Notre Dame plays Navy in Ireland. On Saturday evening in Dublin, the Fighting Irish cruised to an easy 42-3 victory over the Midshipmen in a game that was never in [...]
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