[fade in to gentle nature sounds] As the late summer sun sloughs off the demi-gloom robes of twilight, a landscape draws into view that is markedly different than the one the same heavenly traveler left us with not so long ago. The once-imposing Matterhorns that obstructed the precious natural resources the pride must hoard to [...]
Once again the 18 Stripes crew was invited to participate in the annual "Counting Down the Irish" list of top 25 preseason Notre Dame players. While the votes are tied to my name, I like to go with a "wisdom of the crowds" approach each year, opening voting to the staff and then averaging our [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Notre Dame has named their football captains for the 2022 season. They are Avery Davis, Bo Bauer, Jarett Patterson, Isaiah Foskey, JD Bertrand, and Michael Mayer. Marcus Freeman has mentioned in a recent press conference that he prefers to defer at the [...]
Notre Dame and Ohio State haven't played much throughout history but when they do it tends to be a huge game at the time of kickoff. The Irish head to Columbus to open the 2022 season in what will be the 5th straight game in this series between Top 10 teams. And if we include [...]
The average cost of attendance to the University of Notre Dame reached $80,211 for the 2022-23 school year at a place with an endowment north of $12 billion. Setting aside the rather gross sky-rocketing price of college that has continued to plague generations of young people, at least we can say that things at Notre [...]
IT'S GAME WEEK. Notre Dame opens up the 2022 season this Saturday night in Columbus against the Ohio State Buckeyes. If you're reading this I'm sure you are well aware. It'll be the first visit to Ohio Stadium since 1995 and the first matchup against Ohio State since the Fiesta Bowl concluding the 2015 season. [...]
Welcome back to 18Stripes and your one stop shop for everything you need to know about the Group of 5. While Week 0 was a fairly quiet week, I still have a fair amount to say about the games and the format of the column. As I mentioned last week, the format for this column [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News There's a stipulation in the new 7-year media contract for the Big Ten that includes an increase on their annual revenue should Notre Dame join the conference. The Irish are the only program with that specific stipulation. Tight end/fullback Davis Sherwood earned [...]
After lunch time on Wednesday word began to spread that some good news could be coming imminently for Notre Dame in the recruiting world. Surely it couldn't be Jeremiyah Love? Would it be one of the 2024 targets? Perhaps it was really nothing and we'd all forget about it in the morning. Nope, a new [...]
With the college football season just around the corner (Austin Peay at Western Kentucky opens up the FBS season this Saturday at Noon eastern followed by the Ireland game between Nebraska and Northwestern at 12:30 and a night cap at 10:30 eastern with Clark Lea's 'Dores visiting Hawaii) the return of Five Wide Fullbacks is [...]
For me, putting this poll together and publishing it is the unofficial start of the college football season. It's time to gear up for another year of collegiate lunacy and the 134th season of Notre Dame football as the Fighting Irish have gone 33 straight seasons without a National Championship. Can we PLEASE break that [...]
Welcome back to the Group of 5 Preview for 2022. During the offseason, I did a lot of thinking about how I wanted to improve and make the lists better and have the content still be fresh. Thinking about this, I thought about how chaotic the early season for Group of 5 teams can be. [...]
We are less than a year away from the return of a college football video game. Using EA Sports old tradition of releasing the game on the second Tuesday in July once we get to 7/9/23 for the release of College Football 24 it will have been 10 years to the day since we've had [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Tyler Buchner was officially named the starting quarterback for Notre Dame this past Saturday. Notre Dame veteran receiver Avery Davis came back for his 6th season only to tear his ACL yet again. He'll be out for the entire 2022 season, it's [...]
When you think back to the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) on television I'm sure ESPN, and by extension ABC, are the networks that immediately pop into your mind. During negotiations early in the 2000's ABC became "unhappy with the new structure" which saw the BCS expand to 5 games instead of 4 going into effect [...]
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