What We Think We Know About the 2020 Depth Chart: Offense
No open practices, no problem. How does one figure out what the Notre Dame depth chart is going to look like just under 2 weeks until the first game when no one has watched the [...]
18S Top 20 Poll: The Asterisk Rankings
We are going to push forward with college football content as portions of the sport are on track to play games soon, including our own Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. Like many things this year, [...]
The Hall of Fame Series: It’s Shark Week
Welcome back to the Hall of Fame Series here on 18Stripes. If you want to read the prior posts to get a better understand you can go here. Apologies for the delay between posts, moving [...]
The Dumbest Best Notre Dame Football Wins: Part 2
If you missed part one don't forget to check out a pair of victories from Tyrone Willingham and Gerry Faust, among others. These non-legendary coaches are not done, either. There is still more bewildering wins [...]
Notre Dame Football: The 5 Latest Roster Updates
In roughly a month Notre Dame is scheduled to face Duke University on a football field for a real super official totally going to happen collegiate game. In order to prepare for such an event [...]
Welcome to Notre Dame: First-Time Visitor Records in Rock’s House
If the normal 2020 schedule were to be played another football program would be making its debut playing inside Notre Dame Stadium. Unfortunately, the Razorbacks from Arkansas will not get that opportunity this year as [...]
The Dumbest Best Notre Dame Football Wins: Part 1
Stretching back to the start of the AP Poll in 1936, an unranked Notre Dame football team has defeated a team that was ranked at kickoff on 27 different occasions. In 13 of these games, [...]
2021 Football Recruiting: Elite OG Rocco Spindler Commits to Notre Dame!
Notre Dame added some weight, literally and figuratively, to the top of its 2021 class today when top 50 offensive lineman Rocco Spindler announced for the Irish at his high school. The 6'5", 315-pound Michigander [...]
Notre Dame’s 2020 Schedule is Out, and It’s Weird to Look At
The new 2020 schedule is out. The ACC announced this morning the dates for its truncated slate, Notre Dame included. Time to Rally! ☘️ First up? #BeatDuke #GoIrish pic.twitter.com/WKefvHUy0u — Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) August [...]
Trophy Hunting: Breaking Down the Toughest & Easiest 2020 ACC Schedules
So it shall be for 2020, for the first time in Notre Dame football's storied history a conference championship trophy is available to be won. The Atlantic Coast Conference recently unveiled a 10-game schedule for [...]
Predicting Yards Per Play Differential for 2020
Notre Dame has put together 3 straight seasons of at least 10 wins (remember when doing this back-to-back was such a hump to get over for the program?) and also achieved that feat in 4 [...]
2021 Football Recruiting: TE Mitchell Evans Commits to Notre Dame
Notre Dame’s recruiting roll continued today when 2021 TE Mitch Evans announced for the Irish. There was some recent buzz that the 6’6”, 240-pound Ohioan might stretch his recruitment out, but that buzz was apparently [...]
2020 (Almost) All-ACC Schedule Released
The much anticipated ACC 10-game schedule was released yesterday, with the expected news finalized that Notre Dame will be included in the 10-game conference schedule and be eligible for the conference championship game (and Orange [...]
2021 Football Recruiting: RB Logan Diggs Commits to Notre Dame
Tyler Buchner finally has a backfield mate! Notre Dame added a long-desired running back to its 2021 class today when Logan Diggs announced his commitment for the Irish. Notre Dame made a big move for [...]
2022 Football Recruiting: TE Jack Nickel Commits to Notre Dame
Notre Dame added its second 2022 commitment today when TE Jack Nickel announced for the Irish. The 6'4", 230-pound Georgian recently made an independent visit to campus, like recent 2021 commit Chance Tucker, which no [...]
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