I recently unleashed my pre-season Top 20 rankings for 2026 so you can imagine how today's playoff prediction is going to play out. There may be a fun surprise at the end, see below for more good vibes. #LeaveNoDoubt This is year 13 of college football using a playoff to determine a champion, and the [...]
Hey 18 Stripes readers it’s been a while! Hope everyone is doing well. Things are good up here in Canada, I am currently enjoying the 10 days of summer we get annually in the Great White North, so really can’t complain. As we all know, there is a lot of excitement heading into the 2026 [...]
Notre Dame opened up fall camp on Thursday, August 6th in South Bend with expectations plenty high and perhaps rising even further as the country learns more about this edition of the Fighting Irish. Although it's just shorts and helmets, this is always a fun time of year as we inch closer to actual football [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 ND & USC Return It's now confirmed there will be a 4-year gap in the Notre Dame-USC series after the school's announced the rivalry will return in 2030. That's far enough way that Kenny Dillingham might be coaching the Trojans [...]
After much hemming and hawing through the media, Notre Dame and USC announced a 4-year agreement Monday to play their historic rivalry game starting in 2030. The series will start at SC in 2030 and will be played in week 1 of the first two seasons of the deal before being played at some undetermined [...]
Welcome back to the first top 20 ranking of the 2026 season. It's good to be back in this space and ready to lock in for another season of college football. As always, change continues to happen everywhere in this sport. The Pac-12 is back as a real league again (although not with power conference [...]
A while ago, Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman attended a ground breaking ceremony with a hard hat on looking forward to a new football facility being built off Courtney Lane across from the new indoor practice field and sharing the same block as the Gug football and athletic building. If you've paid attention to [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 SoFighting Irish As detailed HERE by Andy, Notre Dame has joined the jersey patch market and signed a deal with online banking giant SoFi for some real estate on the left chest of Fighting Irish athletic uniforms. The response has [...]
For those of you plugged-in types (and my sympathies if you are), you might have seen a Notre Dame-themed Twitter account brag after Ohio State's massive uniform-advertisement deal with Chase Bank was announced this morning that the Irish would never, repeat NEVER, stoop so low as to infect their uniforms with corporate sponsors. What happened [...]
Does the Notre Dame defense have fewer questions than the offense? We think so yes, many are expecting the Irish defense to contend for the best unit in the nation. The offense could enter that conversation (read our fall camp preview for that side of the ball HERE) but needs to develop a few more [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Warde Off a Firing Well, a dark era in Michigan athletics history is about to close. But not quite yet. Warde Manuel, who has been athletic director at Michigan since 2016, will be stepping down at the end of the [...]
Going into fall camp last season, technically the team was bringing back more starters on offense overall (compared to 2026) and you could've made the case for decent stability. However, the program was coming off an insanely short off-season after making it all the way to the National Championship Game and would spend the first [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Eligibility Lawsuit Last week, a judge in Ohio granted a preliminary injection for 24 players in men's and women's college basketball within the state to continue their careers after the "5 for 5" ruling came down from the NCAA. Now, [...]
Last off-season was a quiet market for new head coaching candidates at the power program level with only 6 new jobs filled, and the focus largely spent on Bill Belichick's sucking media attention away from everyone else. Heading into 2026 we have 16(!) new head coaches at power programs, which doesn't include the resurrected Pac-12 [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Eichorst is Back Notre Dame's opening opponent to the 2026 football season will be breaking in a new athletic director. Scratch that, he's not really new and will be returning to the Badgers for a second time. Shawn Eichorst is [...]
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