Nothing to Do but Wait: Stanford Instant Reaction

By |2025-11-30T02:30:52-05:00November 30th, 2025|18S Reads, Football|

Today was far less about Notre Dame/Stanford than a bunch of other games with playoff implications for Notre Dame. Almost every single one went badly except for the Irish's game, an easy win that sent ND into whatever postseason it ends up in on a 10-game win streak, each of which with a 99.4% or [...]

2025 College Football Week 14 Picks: Goodbye to the Regular Season

By |2025-11-25T20:03:03-05:00November 26th, 2025|Football|

It leaves a bad taste in your mouth when it's the regular season finale and a weekend full of great rivalry games only for Notre Dame to face a 4-7 Stanford team with an interim head coach. That this game kicks off at 10:30 PM ET is even more insane. As you'll see below, the [...]

Mike’s Notre Dame CFP Rooting Interests: Rivalry Week

By |2025-11-25T21:12:38-05:00November 25th, 2025|Football|

At long last, the best college football week of the regular season has arrived!  If I had told you on September 14th that Notre Dame would be on the right side of the CFP bubble at this juncture, you would surely take that series of events.  But nothing is locked up yet!  The Irish need [...]

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Ducks Move into Position

By |2025-11-24T08:00:46-05:00November 24th, 2025|Football|

An expected quiet weekend unfolded exactly like that, very little chaos happened over the past few days which isn't great news for Notre Dame but also not the end of the world, either. So this won't be a very interesting set of rankings, and I don't expect the College Football Playoff committee to have a [...]

Syracuse Game Preview: The Peanut Butter-Free Scouting Report

By |2025-11-20T14:52:48-05:00November 21st, 2025|Football|

A Syracuse team coming off a 10-win season with Notre Dame transfer Steve Angeli at quarterback returning to South Bend on Senior Day looked like it was going to be a spicy matchup back in August. Fast forward a few months and things have changed to the point where Notre Dame is simply trying to [...]

Mike’s Notre Dame CFP Rooting Interests: Week 13

By |2025-11-19T09:30:58-05:00November 19th, 2025|18S Reads, Football|

Hello 18S!  Quick intro: I’m Mike, and as my handle suggests, I graduated from Notre Dame undergrad in 2011, and stayed on for three more years at Notre Dame Law School.  As a tax attorney, I enjoy scenario planning and risk-adjusted thinking, and that’s what brings us to the topic of this article: what’s best [...]

2025 College Football Week 13 Picks: The Quiet Before the Storm

By |2025-11-19T08:26:11-05:00November 19th, 2025|Football|

We have a couple certified bangers coming up but week 13 is largely the "play a FCS or super easy opponent before the rivalry regular season finale" portion of the season. Notre Dame is also on an active bye week, yes let's call it that, as massive favorites over a depressed Syracuse team. It's not [...]

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Alabama Falters at Home

By |2025-11-17T09:33:21-05:00November 17th, 2025|Football|

Notre Dame took care of business this past weekend with a smackdown inside Acrisure Stadium (among the top 5 worst named stadiums in North American sports no doubt) against Pittsburgh. That was the most important part of week 12. Across the rest of the country, things didn't quite break in Notre Dame's favor. Even with [...]

Pittsburgh Game Review: They’re Still Trying to Convert on 3rd Down

By |2025-11-16T10:52:30-05:00November 16th, 2025|Football|

In a battle of freshmen quarterbacks Notre Dame's defense provided a loud statement to the rest of the country that they're ready to keep this momentum past the regular season and into the playoffs. Even with an uneven performance for the Irish offense the game at Pittsburgh was never close. Eight straight wins for Notre [...]

Silenced the Nard Dog: Pittsburgh Instant Reaction

By |2025-11-15T16:43:11-05:00November 15th, 2025|18S Reads|

Find yourself a partner who cares as much about you as Pat Narduzzi cares about tweaking Notre Dame. A few days after inexplicably saying his team's matchup against the Irish didn't matter if they won the conference title (which they're not presently in position to do, worth noting), Narduzzi rode two of several ridiculous penalty [...]

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