This is my 4th year attempting to predict Notre Dame football's yards-per-play differential for the season. In an era where we are flooded with advanced stats and metrics this is the one traditional number that I find still has enough correlation and sway to make sense of this game we all love. Before we get [...]
This is a humble post serving only one purpose to provide our readers with a look at the upcoming college football season and the top games to bookmark on your calendar and inside your mind. Hopefully, I didn't miss any good ones. I basically scanned the schedules of all the Top 25-ish teams highlighting the [...]
Two years we ago we debuted the 18 Stripes Hall of Fame Pyramid for Notre Dame football and its extensive history of wonderful talent. You can read the final rankings from 2019 HERE with links to the previous levels of the pyramid linked therein. We’re now adding players who have left Notre Dame since the conclusion of [...]
It hardly seems like enough time has passed for football to start again, but here we are. There are so many questions for a Notre Dame lineup that will feature some new faces and some old faces in new and/or bigger roles. At the same time there's an unmistakable buzz coming out of training camp [...]
This is not a rating of the power of different teams issued in the preseason. Rather, this is a Power Rating of Preseasons. Notre Dame preseasons, in fact. The ground rules: "Preseason" does not mean "Offseason." It refers, specifically, to the August anticipatory period between practice beginning and the kick-off of the season. There are three [...]
With the season around the corner, it's time to check in on Notre Dame's opponents with some advanced stats projections. Which teams pose the biggest threats to the Irish, who are currently favored in 11 of 12 games? Where are the weak points, and what might the computers be missing? If you want to dive [...]
Maybe it was the pandemic and general weirdness of the 2020 college football season as it was a pretty quiet off-season for new coaches across America. A lack of money for many programs across the country also played a major factor in the lack of coaching changes. Not everyone decided to save money, though. Here [...]
Welcome back to the 18Stripes G5 Top 10. Back for its first full season and we have some new things to introduce. First, there will be a full list of all G5 and non Notre Dame independents here. This is where we will keep track of the results and progress of the poll. I'll also [...]
Welcome back to the Odyssey. As always, you can click here to read all parts of the journey covered so far. Last time, we took a look at the final regular season game of the 2001 season, the 2001 SEC Championship. Today, we take a look at the consequences of that game and how the [...]
On Thursday afternoon the Fighting Irish concluded their final fully open practice in front of the media. We're 17 days away from Notre Dame opening the season at Florida State and will largely bide our time as the information from practices dries up as we inch closer to the 2021 football season. We'll wrap up [...]
Two years we ago we debuted the 18 Stripes Hall of Fame Pyramid for Notre Dame football and its extensive history of wonderful talent. You can read the final rankings from 2019 HERE with links to the previous levels of the pyramid linked therein. We’re now adding players who have left Notre Dame since the conclusion of [...]
After one of Notre Dame's practices last week, defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman was available for a general media session for the first time in four months. As usual, Freeman proved to be a compelling listen from multiple angles. Whether he talked about personnel, defensive philosophy, life adjustments, or mentoring, it was all great insight into [...]
It's been said this is a tradition and a hallowed one that shouldn't change. No player names on the backs of Notre Dame's jerseys has existed for the majority of the program's history although that could be changing soon. And it would be a change that is long overdue. The blue-collar mentality epitomized by the [...]
Ladies and gentleman, it is time to consolidate the board. We're officially moving from doing separate offense and defense updates to doing one comprehensive update, since the board is down to 12 total prospects with a non-zero level of mutual interest. That non-zero level is defined as having a temperature of "Cool" or better, if [...]
Notre Dame's 2023 class added its third prospect today when four-star athlete Adon Shuler announced for the Irish. The 6'0", 190-pound New Jerseyan earned his offer by camping at Notre Dame in early June, then showed his interest was serious by returning for the BBQ at the end of July. While he's currently ranked as [...]
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