The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Clark Lea Making History
Bye week carnage is unique to college football and one of the best experiences for fans enjoying a relaxing Saturday away from the emotional attachment of their team. This past Saturday we got a banger [...]
Five Wide Fullbacks: Bye Week Assessment
Five Wide Fullbacks marks its return as the football team enters a much-needed period of rest over the bye week. In this edition, we will discuss coaching grades for the Irish staff, the best and [...]
Deuce Knight’s Decommitment is the Latest Thing Making This Fan Base Crazy
Top QB recruit Deuce Knight publicly flipped his commitment from Notre Dame to Auburn Wednesday night. Apparently, he was impressed with Auburn making him a priority for 2 months after publicly failing to flip 2 [...]
Week 6 Picks: Friday Night in Vegas, Baby
It's the first bye week for Notre Dame so no game preview this week. Taking a peek at this week's games before my picks below I think this is a great week to settle into [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Highly Entertaining in Tuscaloosa
A quarter of the teams in our poll lost this past weekend. Chaos is slowly creeping into the college football season and we know it cannot be stopped. However, there wasn't a major shakeup of [...]
Louisville Game Review: Winning is Indeed Preferred
It was far from pretty. In fact, in the 1st half the ranked vs. ranked matchup looked downright bizarre with turnovers and mental mistakes occurring all over the field. At the end of the game, [...]
Louisville Game Preview: This Game is the Season
What a year, huh? First we had that delicious road victory against a favored SEC team, then the devastating loss to NIU, and oh, I see we're not even halfway through the schedule. The 2024 [...]
Week 5 Picks: The Big One (So Far) in the SEC
We're already into week 5 of the 2024 college football season with the last games in September coming up quickly. This weekend we have a massively important matchup in the SEC between modern powerhouses surrounded [...]
Advanced Stats Review: Miami (Ohio)
The Irish avoided another home game with late drama against a MAC opponent despite a dreadful start. This was a game that looks far better on the spreadsheet than in real life, creating terrific conditions [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: You Had One Job
We're back with the latest set of rankings after what I'm going to call a very frustrating weekend of college football, highlighted by USC's insistence on coughing up their first Big Ten matchup. It makes [...]
Miami (OH) Game Review: Not Another MAC Attack
A slow start on Saturday afternoon had Irish fans worried about another horrible upset from a MAC team. However, a stabilized defensive effort and some explosiveness from the running game led to a solid if [...]
At Least They Won This Time: Miami (OH) Instant Reaction
For the second straight home game, Notre Dame looked like a tire fire for much of the first half against a MAC opponent Saturday, but this time, at least, the Irish managed to pull itself [...]
Miami (OH) Game Preview
Oxford of the West. Abercrombie University. Big Bentown. Cradle of Coaches. Mother of Fraternities. By all these names (and more) is Saturday’s opponent known. […]
Advanced Stats Review: Purdue
Notre Dame bounced back with a vengeance in West Lafayette, laying waste to a Purdue team that was completely overwhelmed on both sides of the ball. The explosive rushing attack once again fueled the Irish [...]
Week 4 Picks: Spirit of Troy in Ann Arbor
Well, Notre Dame ended up covering last week. By many times over. The rest of the week's picks from 18 Stripes, let's just say it wasn't one to look back on fondly. Hopefully we can [...]
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