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 [...]
A Study of Modern College Football Network Themes
In less than two weeks, we will be watching real-life college football again. A while ago, I asked our writer's room about their favorite college football theme songs which immediately set off a wave of [...]
The Top 30 College Football Storylines to Watch for 2023
College football begins this month, let us rejoice. During the off-season as I was working on the top 50 college football games to watch for 2023 it made me ponder the biggest story lines in [...]
18S Film Room: Protection & The Dual Inside Runs: Duo & Inside Zone
Have you ever looked at a snap and wondered why it was such a success or failure? In this series I hope to try to explain and give names to the common plays that a [...]
The Top 5 Worst Power 5 Conference College Football Programs
Well, recent events certainly changed the dynamic of this article which began several weeks ago. For the sake of this thorough study I won't be including any new Power 5 programs, and I'm not sure [...]
Notre Dame & Navy Announce Under Armour ‘Ireland Collection’ Uniforms and Apparel
A 'rivalry forged in history' says the press release from Under Armour. On Sunday morning, the Ireland Collection was released for Notre Dame and Navy's game later this month in the Aer Lingus Classic in [...]
18S Film Room: Will Grant Chesnut Open Up the Navy Passing Game?
Brian Newberry is the new head coach at Navy after being the defensive coordinator for the Middies since 2019. Their defense has been pretty good over his tenure but the more intriguing bit is that [...]
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