SoFi Stadium opened up for the 2020 football season, hosted Super Bowl LVI last February, and is set to host the college football National Championship on Monday night. We are concluding the 9th College Football Playoffs and the penultimate edition before the sport adopts an expanded 12-team field with the 2024 season. The history of [...]
It's another off-season of challenge for Notre Dame as they attempt to bring in transfers to the football team while working around a stricter framework (not quite as bad as Stanford, but still) of academics. As of this writing, the Fighting Irish have already brought in 3 (scholarship) transfers this off-season and a ton of [...]
Notre Dame picked up big news for 2023 as it broke today that Wake Forest quarterback Sam Hartman is expected to grad transfer to Notre Dame for his final season of eligibility (per IrishSportsDaily, Irish Illustrated/247, and Blue & Gold Illustrated/On3, among others). Hartman was a 2018 3-star (0.8626) recruit for Wake Forest and was the [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Former Pitt Panther (heavily recruited by Notre Dame) and current Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field Monday night against the Bengals. I'm sure everyone has seen the story and is watching his recovery. Here at 18S we pray he [...]
There's no doubt that roster churn in college football is very real these days. I can remember back in the early Brian Kelly days with these scholarship articles discussing the difficult decisions of having 1 or 2 players not making their mark on the field having sit downs with the coaching staff to look elsewhere [...]
They had us for most of the 1st half, I'm not going to lie. On Friday in Jacksonville, Notre Dame came out awfully rusty, looking a bit disinterested, while South Carolina was throwing the kitchen sink at the Irish early in the game. At one point, the Gamecocks led 21-7 and 24-10 to give me [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Western Michigan grad transfer defensive tackle Braden Fiske has chosen Florida State over Notre Dame and USC. Wake Forest quarterback Sam Hartman has entered the transfer portal. Now, we await his decision :) Former Texas quarterback Hudson Card has transferred to Purdue. [...]
Notre Dame finished the regular season with USC and will complete the bowl season facing the other USC from the southeast. Friday afternoon live from Jacksonville, the Irish will face South Carolina in the 78th edition of the Gator Bowl. ***Gator Bowl Mini-Preview*** This will be the first time Notre Dame and the Gamecocks meet [...]
Recently, the NCAA ruled that players will not lose any eligibility by participating in this post-season of college football. With the amount of opt-outs and transfers growing every year I would expect this to become a permanent rule at some point. For Notre Dame, it won't change anything since the only true freshman player who [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Notre Dame's 2023 recruiting class came to a close on Wednesday with a 24-man haul, including decommitments from Peyton Bowen and Jayden Limar. Still we rise. The Irish have added grad transfer wide receiver Kaleb Smith from Virginia Tech. Since his namesake [...]
DISCLAIMER: I wrote this after the loss to Marquette and decided it was too negative to post. In the interest of self-care, I wasn't going to watch the Georgia game. Of course, I couldn't resist. I'll put a few post-Georgia thoughts at the end... As I've aged, my attitude has drifted to pessimism. I try [...]
Wednesday morning December 21st opens up the first day of the early signing period for college football. If you're reading this and missed the ESD Primer, click HERE and get caught up on Notre Dame's 2023 recruiting class. This has never felt like the old first Wednesday of February National Signing Day bonanza that we [...]
The Notre Dame 2023 recruiting class officially got under way with its first commit on June 29, 2021. That was 157 days before Marcus Freeman was officially hired as the new head coach for the Fighting Irish. This Wednesday, the Early Signing period opens up for college football effectively ending the 2023 cycle for the [...]
A running back named Williams from Missouri, you say? On Friday evening, Notre Dame added its 7th member of the 2024 recruiting class as running back Aneyas Williams committed to Marcus Freeman and the Irish program following multiple visits to campus throughout 2022. Hailing from Hannibal High School in northeast Missouri just across the Mississippi [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Terrible news out of Starkville where Mississippi State head coach Mike Leach passed away on Monday from complications following a heart attack. Certainly one of the most colorful characters in college football history, Leach's coaching of the Air Raid at Kentucky and [...]
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