Film Room: Tommy Runs the Dang Ball
Welcome back to the 18 Stripes Film Room! In his press conference on September 14 following the opening win against Duke, Brian Kelly dropped this tidbit about the offense: "We had a running back who [...]
Advanced Stats Review: USF
The dominant win over USF featured an efficiency massacre, defensive disruption from unlikely sources, and a nearly 30-yard per possession field position advantage for Notre Dame. This game reached garbage time at the half, and [...]
Reimagining National Titles with Playoffs: 1973
This series will look at past Notre Dame football National Championship seasons and imagine how things would have finished if a college football playoff system was in place at the time. Remember when we used [...]
USF Review: Irish Easily Cruise Past the Bulls
Fast start, check. Improved play across the board, check. Dominate a much weaker opponent, check. Under a cloud-less South Bend sky in the beaming sun, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame quickly dispatched a ragged [...]
A Saturday Stroll: South Florida Instant Reaction
The 2011 demons were exorcised Saturday as Notre Dame didn't let South Florida become a meme again this time around, blasting the Bulls 52-0. There's essentially nothing to dislike from today's performance, so let's talk [...]
USF Preview: Avoiding Aliens & Anguish
It's been 9 years since South Florida's insane first-ever game against Notre Dame. A lot has changed since that 5 hour and 59-minute debacle brought us perhaps the weirdest game in school history. Brian Kelly [...]
Duke Review: A Good & Bad Beginning to 2020
A lot of rust was to be expected for Notre Dame football as they took the field for the first time this Saturday in a tighter-than-expected 14-point win over the visiting Duke Blue Devils. The [...]
Well, Here We Go: Duke Instant Reaction
(Weird disclaimer: Photographers weren't allowed in the stadium today, so we're rolling with a photo of last year's game.) ND's off-season lasted just over eight months. It was only two weeks longer than it would've [...]
2020 Notre Dame Opponent Preview
The past several seasons have provided Irish fans with exposure to every ACC team, but for 2020 that gets to be taken to an entirely new level. Advanced stat projections agree with the ironic storyline [...]
Duke Preview: The (Blue) Devil is in the Details
Welcome back to college football. Following a cancelled spring, in addition to an interrupted off-season and fall camp, the Fighting Irish take the field this Saturday to begin the 2020 campaign. It'll be our first [...]
The Top 25 Players List, 2020 Edition
The ranking of the top 25 players on the Notre Dame roster is an annual tradition that means football is almost here. Like everything in 2020, this year's exercise was stranger and more confusing than [...]
The List: Updating the 2020 Rankings for Notre Dame’s Next Head Coach
Editor's Note: This article was written in the past long before several college football conferences decided to postpone or cancel their seasons. It's been sitting in the draft section of the site for a while [...]
Five Wide Fullbacks: Welcome to the Return of Football
Five Wide Fullbacks returns with a discussion about Tommy Rees, Notre Dame in the ACC, picking players to return in 2021, the Heisman Trophy, and the weirdness to come with college football in a pandemic. [...]
The Hall of Fame Series: The Golden Standard
Welcome back to the 18Stripes Hall of Fame Series. A reminder that you can easily see every entry of the series here. Today we finish our first half of the decade (and final entry until [...]
What We Think We Know About the 2020 Depth Chart: Defense
Earlier this week we looked at Notre Dame's offense where a veteran quarterback and offensive line anchors that side of the ball. Now, we turn our focus to the defense where Clark Lea heads into [...]
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