I hope everyone had a happy and restful bye week. We're heading into double digit weeks of college football with the home stretch coming and bringing us to the 2nd edition of the 12-team playoffs. A reminder that the first college football playoff rankings will be released after this upcoming week 10. The made-for-TV program [...]
It's been almost 4 months since our last roster update, and while we're in the thick of an improving football season on the field, the acquisition of talent and program management never stops. In fact, the Early Signing Period is going to be here faster than you think. In just 37 days from today that [...]
Notre Dame could've used a bit more chaos in week 9 of the college football calendar. While resting during the bye, a few opportunities for key upsets arose but many of them didn't come through. Besides a shuffle at the top not a ton has changed in our rankings as the Irish prepare for their [...]
Welcome back to a bye week edition of Five Wide Fullbacks. If it's too cold this weekend, don't be afraid to grab an air fryer and serve up yourself some delicious cheeseburgers as we sit back and watch the rest of the country while Notre Dame rests. In this week's edition we are discussing the [...]
Notre Dame is off this week but not the weekly picks. We roll on with 8 games on the slate for week 9. Can Indiana stop UCLA's winning ways and vice versa? Can the Sooners survive a barrage of top opponents? How bad could things get for Brian Kelly? And, will BYU continue to lead [...]
And then there were 6 undefeated teams remaining in college football. Five of them are coming from the power conferences with little old Navy the only remaining non-power team in the nation--and they still can't get ranked in the AP Poll. More on that below as we take a look at the current playoff picture [...]
Notre Dame got a bad performance from CJ Carr, cocked up opportunities for easy points, and continually left the door open for Southern California to take their first win in South Bend since 2011. With the skies opened and a lightning delay ever present, the Fighting Irish slammed the door shut against their main rival. [...]
It was important Notre Dame won tonight's game for a lot of reasons, but a statement of intent for the program was in order. Play USC, beat USC, and beat USC playing the kind of football they refuse to play. Notre Dame eventually stopped screwing around and beat the Trojans into submission Saturday, 34-24, leaving [...]
Earlier this year, I wrote about USC's attempt to weasel out of the Notre Dame rivalry and their slow self-immolation in the face of conference realignment. In that, I wrote: Let’s make one thing perfectly clear: there is no way this arrangement works out long-term for USC. They are screwing their fans, their players, and [...]
The weather is finally starting to turn in the north and Midwest after an unseasonably warm September and early October. We should get one last gasp this weekend though, as the weather is looking pretty warm in South Bend and beyond. We are treated to four separate ranked vs. ranked matchups this week, a tough [...]
We had a really quality and entertaining week 7 in college football. We'll talk about some MACtion, SEC battles, perhaps the best road win of the season, and Penn State having enough of the James Franklin era. That and more to come! Here's the latest poll from 18 Stripes: 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll [...]
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 [...]
Is it just me, or was this the first game of the season that had real 2024 vibes? Notre Dame tripped over itself a few times early Saturday, and we had a good old-fashioned ref show late in the first half (I'll leave discussion of that to the comments), but things calmed down after halftime [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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