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 concluding and suddenly Love is an astonishing 3rd across most sportsbooks in the United States [...]
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 [...]
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 visiting Syracuse Orange showed they did not belong on the same field as the Fighting [...]
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 wayside. The Knuckles series had far more drama than Saturday's game, as Notre Dame utterly [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Fresh off a rousing snow-kissed win over Navy, Notre Dame heads to Pittsburgh for a game that has playoff implications for both teams. The eternally salty Pat Narduzzi has a chance to lead his Panthers into the ACC championship game, and if they can get in they have every reason to believe they can win [...]
Blue chip safety Khalil Terry became the sixth member of Notre Dame's 2027 recruiting class yesterday when he announced his commitment to the Irish. The 6'0", 185-pound Californian and erstwhile Michigan State commit had been trending towards USC in the not-too-distant past, picking up some predictions to land with them as recently as a month [...]
I was mindlessly surfing social media recently when I came across a cut up video of how the New York Jets prepare their footballs for games. Full disclosure, I never really thought that deeply about the process although in the NFL the game balls have always been noticeable for being really dark. If you buy [...]
Last week I only included 5 games in my picks (we'll get to that in a minute) and this upcoming week is going to be the exact opposite with a whole bevy of juicy games to consider. With just a few weeks to go in the regular season we are getting close to the post-season. [...]
This past week four teams from our 18 Stripes ranking fell, although there weren't any big upsets near the top of the country. Still, things continue to break nicely for Notre Dame as they chase another playoff appearance with a 7-2 record. Here's the latest poll from 18 Stripes: 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll [...]
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