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18S Mid Major Top Ten: Movement Saturday Delivered

While most of you are probably still basking in the glory of yet another USC embarrassment in Notre Dame Stadium, there were ripples through out the Mid Major conferences that shuffled a couple of things up. Let's dive into this week's Top Ten. Also Considered: Georgia St, SMU, UNLV, Georgia Southern Three And Out Takeaways [...]

By |2023-10-16T00:09:29-04:00October 16th, 2023|18S Reads|2 Comments

18S Mid Major Top Ten: Weird Sh*t Happens in Laramie

While the weekend was not great for the Irish, we did see some shakeup in the Mid Major conferences worth taking a look into. Let's dive into it. Also Considered: Marshall, Ohio, Georgia Southern, Georgia St, Jacksonville St Three And Out Takeaways First Down: Laramie Strikes Again As the title and this header note, Wyoming [...]

By |2023-10-09T00:46:46-04:00October 9th, 2023|18S Reads, Football|4 Comments

18S Mid Major Top Ten: The Conference Starting Gun

While this weekend was momentous in the world of Notre Dame Football, the Mid Major world decided to keep things a little low key in our last week without “weekday” football. That’s right starting this Wednesday, we will have college football on Wednesdays and Tuesdays for the month of October. Before we look ahead, let’s [...]

By |2023-10-02T02:25:43-04:00October 2nd, 2023|18S Reads, Football|14 Comments

18S Mid Major Top Ten: Where Have All The Elite Teams Gone?

After a Week 1 quick break due to sickness and holidays, the Mid Major Top Ten has returned! We had some weird results over the past two Saturdays and we are going to dive into the most important ones below. Before we do that, let’s take a look at the updated Top Ten. Also Considered: [...]

By |2023-09-10T23:53:46-04:00September 11th, 2023|18S Reads, Football|2 Comments

18S Mid Major Top Ten: Now I Become Realignment, Destroyer of Group of 5

So, that was an interesting offseason huh?  Even before the seeming dissolution of the Pac-Whatever as a power conference, I was thinking during this spring and summer about how to approach this column going into 2023. Based on seeing the title, you can see I decided to change the title from Group of 5 to [...]

By |2023-08-28T09:46:14-04:00August 28th, 2023|18S Reads, Football|1 Comment

18S G5 Top Ten: Crunching The Numbers This Feast Week!

Welcome back to the G5 Top Ten Poll. We had a very fun week across the leagues, setting up for some truly fun finishes in these conferences. Let’s take a look at the Top Ten before we dive into the final week of the regular season. Also Considered: James Madison, Fresno State, Toledo, Air Force, [...]

By |2022-11-20T23:43:43-05:00November 21st, 2022|18S Reads|2 Comments

UNLV Game Preview: What Happens In Vegas…Comes to South Bend?

Murtaugh: Alright, I wanna talk about some- Me: I’d like to say something, that I have prepared…tonight. Hello, how bout that first half of the season? Guess that’s why they call it Notre Dame Football. Ha, Ha.  https://youtu.be/pdSArUWt0fo Okay, I won’t do the whole speech by Alan from the 2009 movie The Hangover, but the [...]

By |2022-10-20T21:18:36-04:00October 21st, 2022|Football|8 Comments
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