2025 College Football Week 14 Picks: Goodbye to the Regular Season
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 [...]
Mike’s Notre Dame CFP Rooting Interests: Rivalry Week
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 [...]
Love for Heisman…This Could Happen
Not long ago fans were debating if Jeremiyah Love would get an invite to New York City for the 2025 Heisman ceremony with many believing it probably wasn't going to happen. Fast forward to the eve of the regular season [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Ducks Move into Position
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 [...]
Syracuse Game Review: Thanks for Coming Out
With the score sitting at 21-0, in the gameday Discord channel I joked Notre Dame should cover the spread in the first quarter. Wishes do come true this Holiday season, I guess. On an overcast afternoon in South Bend, the [...]
One More Guaranteed: Syracuse Instant Reaction
I thought about writing up a draft of this post earlier this morning, assuming it would just be a matter of filling in some details. But then my kid wanted to watch the Knuckles series, so that went by the [...]
Syracuse Game Preview: The Peanut Butter-Free Scouting Report
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 [...]
Mike’s Notre Dame CFP Rooting Interests: Week 13
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 [...]
2025 College Football Week 13 Picks: The Quiet Before the Storm
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, [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Alabama Falters at Home
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 [...]
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