Rating the Potential Trap Games for Notre Dame in 2025
Every year I remember to do so, I like to examine the Notre Dame football schedule for signs of those always-dangerous spots on the schedule known as the Trap Games, in honor of the great [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Those Gainesville Blues
In the end, Week 2 was a little more fun than expected with chaos outside of the top of the rankings. The top teams nary had a struggle with our top 8 teams in action [...]
2025 College Football Week 2 Picks: Driving the Sooner Schooner
I haven't done the research but it feels like in recent years Week 3 and especially Week 2 are really dreadful for college football entertainment as some programs continue to pull back from out of [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Florida State Looks Pretty Good Again
My pre-season poll was so bad that the top 3 teams, and 4 out of the top 5, all lost in week 1. Phew! And, it could've been worse but the no. 4 team played [...]
Miami Game Review: Back to Basics
The nightmares continue playing Miami on the road. Notre Dame opened up the 2025 season with high hopes as the road favorite but now fly back to South Bend after suffering a close but very [...]
Kerplunk: Miami Instant Reaction
It was one thing to lose. Beating good teams on the road is hard, and Miami is a good team. What was frustrating was seeing almost every position unit that was supposed to be awesome [...]
Miami Game Preview: Sunday Night in the 305
The month of August ends on Sunday with the Fighting Irish closing out the first weekend* of the college football season in primetime on ABC against the Miami Hurricanes. Only 192 days ago, Notre Dame [...]
Reminder: Game Day Chats are on 18 Stripes Discord
Last October during the college football season we made the decision to open up our own 18 Stripes server on Discord. If you'd like to read the reasoning why check it out HERE. It's been [...]
The Notre Dame 2025 Season Preview: Title Hunt Loading…
Look, no one expected what happened last year, not even the most Kool-Aid chugging optimist. While it didn't end well, it sure was a fun ride. For the first time in many years, the Irish [...]
2025 College Football Week 0/1 Picks: Lights, Camera, Action
The weekly picks articles are back with college football opening up this weekend. Well, since there's a week 0 the next picks article won't come for a couple more weeks after Week 1 is fully [...]
Carr Gets the Keys & the Process of Selecting a New Quarterback
Notre Dame's competitive, contentious, and controversial quarterback battle finally came to an end on Tuesday afternoon with the announcement that redshirt freshman CJ Carr won the job. A couple months ago, maybe even a few [...]
The 2025 Notre Dame Depth Chart Breakdown
We have a good idea of the situation at most positions for Notre Dame football as kickoff in Miami moves closer. However, another August of mostly closed practices leaves mystery and intrigue surrounding a handful [...]
College Football Playoff 2025 Predictions
The 2025 college football season kicks off in a couple weeks. In case you missed it, we published our pre-season Top 20 rankings HERE that will start as the basis for today's look at the [...]
2026 DL Elijah Golden Commits to Notre Dame
With a name like that, was there really ever any other option? Notre Dame (probably) put a lovely bow on its 2026 recruiting class today when blue-chip defensive lineman Elijah Golden announced for the Irish. [...]
The 18 Stripes 2025 Pre-Season Top 20 Poll: Chasing the Gold (Trophy)
I'm going to be real. By mid-season these top 20 posts can become a drag when we're piecing together our own list while the AP, Coach's Poll, and eventually the playoff committee are all converging [...]
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