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 [...]
Navy Preview: Across the Ocean Against the New Middies
Why settle into a new football season at home against a tricky but familiar opponent when you can fly all the way across the Atlantic Ocean, earn less money, and make it more difficult on [...]
Rating Notre Dame’s Trap Games in 2023
When I remember to do it, I like to rate the potential trap games on the Notre Dame schedule for our fair site on a scale of 1 to 10 Ackbars in honor of the [...]
Fear Factor: Notre Dame Opponents
As we pass the hours and minutes until the 2023 season kicks off, it's time for a spin through the Notre Dame schedule of opponents for the upcoming year. Which opponents inspire the most fear [...]
Not Top 10: Predicting the Most Overrated 2023 Teams
I've done the math and on average just over 4 teams per season in college football start out in the AP pre-season Top 10 and do not finish inside the Top 10 over the last [...]
18S Film Room: Notre Dame’s Triangle Pass: Snag
Out of the 14 passes that Peacock graced us with a decent angle for, the most common concept by far was Snag (6/14). Snag is a passing concept that is used at pretty much all [...]
The 2023 Notre Dame Football Depth Chart Breakdown
The official depth chart should be coming out soon as the 2023 Notre Dame football season begins soon and the Irish make preparations for an overseas battle against Navy. Today, we will take a look [...]
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