NC State Game Review: The Winning Ways Continue

After a sloppy opening two quarters, Notre Dame pitched a shutout in the second half and calmly dispatched visiting NC State to add another ACC win to the school's coffers. With plenty of things to clean up it was a successful dominant win before an important rivalry game coming up against Southern California. Here's our [...]

By |2025-10-12T09:40:56-04:00October 12th, 2025|Football|27 Comments

NC State Game Preview: The Tricky Wolfpack Awaits the Surging Irish

Notre Dame has picked itself up from 2 opening season losses and climbed back into the good graces of the country with a trio of wins by a combined 140-50 score line. Following a 2-0 start in ACC play--including a now more impressive win over Virginia--we see NC State coming to South Bend wounded after [...]

By |2025-10-09T12:43:16-04:00October 9th, 2025|Football|10 Comments

2025 College Football Week 7 Picks: Put Them to the Sword

My plan this week in the intro was to talk about undefeated Maryland and how their game against Nebraska this weekend suddenly had some meaning nationally, or at least for the upper half of the Big Ten pecking order. The Terps led 20-0 over Washington late in the 3rd quarter last week and ended up [...]

By |2025-10-08T07:43:07-04:00October 8th, 2025|Football|2 Comments

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Uncontrollable Laughter at Penn State

Maybe we should've seen it coming. Penn State, coming off an emotional overtime loss at home to Oregon, had to travel across the country to Los Angeles and probably severely overlooked a wounded UCLA squad with a little bit of talent. As 24.5 point road favorites, that's exactly what Penn State did as they served [...]

By |2025-10-06T12:48:54-04:00October 6th, 2025|Football|18 Comments

Boise State Game Preview: Schrodinger’s Playoff Chances

A game neither team can afford to lose if they want to repeat last season's success, but a team one must win and effectively eliminate from the mystical magical imaginary CFP race. I'm guessing neither one of these teams thought this was the game stakes when it was first scheduled and even back in August. [...]

By |2025-10-02T14:03:43-04:00October 3rd, 2025|18S Reads, Football|1 Comment

2025 College Football Week 6 Picks: Sunshine Showdown Needs a Better Name

We're in the thick of the college football season as week 6 is upon us. Through September, 116 of the 136 FBS teams have lost at least one game. Oregon State, UMass, Sam Houston, and UCLA are the remaining winless teams in the nation. The 20 undefeated teams thus far include: AAC: Navy, Memphis, North [...]

By |2025-09-30T18:24:14-04:00October 1st, 2025|Football|5 Comments

Arkansas Game Preview: First Time in Fayetteville

Prior to the season this game was marked down as a potential highlight of 2025 if both programs could get to late September unbeaten. Well, scratch that both teams have let the college football world down (to be fair both sides are extremely close to being a combined 7-0 as well) and now we're getting [...]

By |2025-09-25T11:51:33-04:00September 25th, 2025|Football|6 Comments

2025 College Football Week 5 Picks: Happy For Now in Happy Valley

Now we're getting into the thick of conference schedules. We've messed around on the edges a little bit and this weekend some proper bangers are headed our way to start separating teams and developing some early playoff rankings. Normally, Alabama and Georgia would carry the weekend but we have a huge Big Ten matchup (still [...]

By |2025-09-24T07:39:45-04:00September 24th, 2025|Football|2 Comments

The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Points Here, Points Everywhere

There was a lot of offense out there in week 4 of the college football season. That included Notre Dame slicing its way through Purdue's defense, that was pretty fun. For now, we don't need to talk about the other side of the ball for the Irish. It was a quiet week nationally with not [...]

By |2025-09-23T14:40:40-04:00September 23rd, 2025|Football|4 Comments

Purdue Game Review: Another Offensive Explosion Against the Boilermakers

Notre Dame teetered on pass defense, dealt with a lightning delay reaching nearly 2 hours, and finally picked up its first win of the season thanks to a nearly flawless performance from the offense.  If only the Irish could play Purdue every week, this whole college football fandom thing would be pretty fun. It was [...]

By |2025-09-21T09:56:54-04:00September 21st, 2025|Football|24 Comments
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