Week 9 was marked largely by comfortable wins and blowouts throughout the nation, although don't tell that to Texas, Kansas State, Ohio State, Boise State, and SMU. With Halloween coming this week we are leaving October behind and gearing up for the final month of the 2024 college football season. Here's the latest 18 Stripes [...]
Any fears of a tight game against the undefeated Naval Academy quickly dissipated on Saturday afternoon. In front of a crowd of over 76,000 in MetLife Stadium, the Fighting Irish built an early lead and then sealed a blowout after buckets of turnovers and mistakes doomed the Midshipmen for their first loss in 2024. Let's [...]
In the preview article for this one, our own Brendan called out Navy's ability to avoid turnovers, concluding it was partially them being really good at it and partially dumb luck. Both of those things turned in a huge way Saturday, and because of it Notre Dame was never threatened in a 51-14 blowout of [...]
Notre Dame returns to the Meadowlands in northern New Jersey tomorrow to face a resurgent Navy program that's ranked for the first time since the end of the 2019 season. This is also only the third time since 1958 that both teams have entered the game ranked; the other two games were in 1978, when [...]
Michigan lost last week so it's always a terrific time of year when we pair that with a Notre Dame victory. Coming up this week we have an early ACC game to watch, a Mountain West showdown late on Friday, plus more Big Ten and SEC action on Saturday before the Big 12 sends us [...]
The carnage in the SEC is in full swing now as every team in the league has suffered at least 1 loss. Oregon looks on with a smile as the Ducks move up into the top spot of the 18S rankings. After 8 weeks of college football, we have 10 undefeated teams remaining across [...]
Notre Dame trailed 7-0 after the 1st quarter and was on the back foot early against Georgia Tech. A strong 2nd quarter tilted the advantage towards the Irish and from there the game was largely in cruise control for the white-panted Notre Dame team at a neutral site home game for the Yellow Jackets. Now [...]
Before you read this reaction post, remember to let me know in the comments how you think my writing affected Notre Dame's College Football Playoff chances. You might as well, as almost literally every other thing that happened during Saturday's 31-13 win over Georgia Tech was examined through that lens, as opposed to being concerned [...]
Georgia Tech was the first team to win a game in the 2024 season when they seemingly pulled off a shocking upset over #10 Florida State in Ireland. Since then, we've discovered that Georgia Tech is a decent team while Florida State is aggressively terrible. The Yellow Jackets are feisty but extremely flawed and face [...]
Last week we saw a major battle in the Big Ten and this weekend it'll be the SEC's turn. Our number one must-watch game of 2024 from our pre-season happens on Saturday as Georgia visits Austin. Is it a possible preview of the National Championship Game? 2024 Betting Record ATS: 28-31-1 SU: 39-21-0 I went [...]
Important announcement for our 18 Stripes community! We've decided to create and open up our own Discord server for our writers and readers alike. In an attempt to move past our current WordPress dominated website and transform our community into something better we thought this was a good idea for the future. If you have [...]
We are inching closer to the playoffs as a couple teams crucially lost their 2nd game of the season this weekend. It's not impossible to come back from such a deficit in 2024 but it won't be easy. Largely, this past week was one where favorites ended up taking care of business, though. Some did [...]
It was late in the 1st quarter and Stanford led 7-0 in one of those "here we go again" moments for Notre Dame football. The mood increased quickly as the Irish eventually pulled away from the Cardinal and put to rest any notion that this would be a competitive matchup. Following a weather delay for [...]
For a little while Saturday, it looked like Stanford was hitting all the checkpoints for an annoyingly stupid Notre Dame game against a lesser opponent that went down to the wire. Not this time, though. Notre Dame exploded for 49 straight points after an opening Cardinal touchdown drive and cruised to the 49-7 win in [...]
With the first bye week behind us, it's time to preview this Saturday's clash between Notre Dame and the Cardinal of Stanford. Traditionally a spunky program capable of tremendous peaks and valleys, it has now been over half a decade of struggles for this once-proud team. They are currently #86 in the latest FEI rankings [...]
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