Five Wide Fullbacks: The Growing Job Market
Welcome back to a bye week edition of Five Wide Fullbacks. If it's too cold this weekend, don't be afraid to grab an air fryer and serve up yourself some delicious cheeseburgers as we sit [...]
2025 College Football Week 9 Picks: Cougars & Cyclones Do Battle
Notre Dame is off this week but not the weekly picks. We roll on with 8 games on the slate for week 9. Can Indiana stop UCLA's winning ways and vice versa? Can the Sooners [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Dawgs Never Left
And then there were 6 undefeated teams remaining in college football. Five of them are coming from the power conferences with little old Navy the only remaining non-power team in the nation--and they still can't [...]
USC Game Review: Needed That One
Notre Dame got a bad performance from CJ Carr, cocked up opportunities for easy points, and continually left the door open for Southern California to take their first win in South Bend since 2011. With [...]
See Ya Sometime: USC Instant Reaction
It was important Notre Dame won tonight's game for a lot of reasons, but a statement of intent for the program was in order. Play USC, beat USC, and beat USC playing the kind of [...]
USC Game Preview: One More for the Road?
Earlier this year, I wrote about USC's attempt to weasel out of the Notre Dame rivalry and their slow self-immolation in the face of conference realignment. In that, I wrote: Let’s make one thing perfectly [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Imagine an Indiana National Championship
We had a really quality and entertaining week 7 in college football. We'll talk about some MACtion, SEC battles, perhaps the best road win of the season, and Penn State having enough of the James [...]
NC State Game Review: The Winning Ways Continue
After a sloppy opening two quarters, Notre Dame pitched a shutout in the second half and calmly dispatched visiting NC State to add another ACC win to the school's coffers. With plenty of things to [...]
The Path Back: NC State Instant Reaction
Is it just me, or was this the first game of the season that had real 2024 vibes? Notre Dame tripped over itself a few times early Saturday, and we had a good old-fashioned ref [...]
NC State Game Preview: The Tricky Wolfpack Awaits the Surging Irish
Notre Dame has picked itself up from 2 opening season losses and climbed back into the good graces of the country with a trio of wins by a combined 140-50 score line. Following a 2-0 [...]
2025 College Football Week 7 Picks: Put Them to the Sword
My plan this week in the intro was to talk about undefeated Maryland and how their game against Nebraska this weekend suddenly had some meaning nationally, or at least for the upper half of the [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Uncontrollable Laughter at Penn State
Maybe we should've seen it coming. Penn State, coming off an emotional overtime loss at home to Oregon, had to travel across the country to Los Angeles and probably severely overlooked a wounded UCLA squad [...]
Boise State Game Review: An Easy Win the Hard Way
You could slice up this game a bunch of different ways. Was it an easy win? Was it a win that was far too difficult? Did we watch more of a clinic on poor officiating? [...]
Boise State Game Preview: Schrodinger’s Playoff Chances
A game neither team can afford to lose if they want to repeat last season's success, but a team one must win and effectively eliminate from the mystical magical imaginary CFP race. I'm guessing neither [...]
2025 College Football Week 6 Picks: Sunshine Showdown Needs a Better Name
We're in the thick of the college football season as week 6 is upon us. Through September, 116 of the 136 FBS teams have lost at least one game. Oregon State, UMass, Sam Houston, and [...]
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