Welcome back to the first top 20 ranking of the 2026 season. It's good to be back in this space and ready to lock in for another season of college football. As always, change continues to happen everywhere in this sport. The Pac-12 is back as a real league again (although not with power conference [...]
A while ago, Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman attended a ground breaking ceremony with a hard hat on looking forward to a new football facility being built off Courtney Lane across from the new indoor practice field and sharing the same block as the Gug football and athletic building. If you've paid attention to [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 SoFighting Irish As detailed HERE by Andy, Notre Dame has joined the jersey patch market and signed a deal with online banking giant SoFi for some real estate on the left chest of Fighting Irish athletic uniforms. The response has [...]
For those of you plugged-in types (and my sympathies if you are), you might have seen a Notre Dame-themed Twitter account brag after Ohio State's massive uniform-advertisement deal with Chase Bank was announced this morning that the Irish would never, repeat NEVER, stoop so low as to infect their uniforms with corporate sponsors. What happened [...]
Does the Notre Dame defense have fewer questions than the offense? We think so yes, many are expecting the Irish defense to contend for the best unit in the nation. The offense could enter that conversation (read our fall camp preview for that side of the ball HERE) but needs to develop a few more [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Warde Off a Firing Well, a dark era in Michigan athletics history is about to close. But not quite yet. Warde Manuel, who has been athletic director at Michigan since 2016, will be stepping down at the end of the [...]
Going into fall camp last season, technically the team was bringing back more starters on offense overall (compared to 2026) and you could've made the case for decent stability. However, the program was coming off an insanely short off-season after making it all the way to the National Championship Game and would spend the first [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Eligibility Lawsuit Last week, a judge in Ohio granted a preliminary injection for 24 players in men's and women's college basketball within the state to continue their careers after the "5 for 5" ruling came down from the NCAA. Now, [...]
Last off-season was a quiet market for new head coaching candidates at the power program level with only 6 new jobs filled, and the focus largely spent on Bill Belichick's sucking media attention away from everyone else. Heading into 2026 we have 16(!) new head coaches at power programs, which doesn't include the resurrected Pac-12 [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Eichorst is Back Notre Dame's opening opponent to the 2026 football season will be breaking in a new athletic director. Scratch that, he's not really new and will be returning to the Badgers for a second time. Shawn Eichorst is [...]
Notre Dame football unveiled their 2026 Shamrock Series uniforms on Wednesday morning via a near 2-minute sharply produced video HERE heavily describing the ties between the Fighting Irish and Green Bay Packers NFL organization. It confirmed the leaks recently that the team will be wearing altered navy blue jerseys when the season opens up against [...]
Our last roster update came on March 30th in the early weeks of spring practice. Since then, the annual onslaught of late spring and early summer commits has happened, plus the NCAA rule book continues to evolve with a crucial new update to how rosters are managed beginning this season and definitely affecting recruiting in [...]
Ten years ago today we launched www.18stripes.com and I can't believe it's been that long. A decade, already? Some may know our background from the past. We had been plugging along at One Foot Down with SB Nation during the 2015 season when things turned sour. We'd been with Vox media for 6 years and [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 CFL Stiff Arm Next stop, the UFL? That may be the move for disgraced former Cincinnati and Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby who was rejected from the NFL (they won't hold a Supplemental Draft) and this week got told a [...]
You'll hear this a million times this year as Notre Dame opens up the season with very winnable games. In our last post covering the beginning of the second half of the season, things start to ramp up--especially with the level of opponent quarterbacks. The ending of the campaign could see some challenge at this [...]
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