The Top 10 Best Decisions in Notre Dame Football History: #10
Notre Dame has been playing football for 135 years and along the way some momentous decisions were made to shape the history of this storied program now entering a daring new phase of college sports. [...]
2024 National Championship Preview: I Want to Throw Up
So we've come to the end of the 2023 college football season and since we like to confuse everyone for the future we will now play the 2024 College Football National Championship with a new [...]
You Won’t Believe This INSANE 2023 Stat for Notre Dame Football!
Welcome to 2024. In years past I would publish a yards per play prediction for each Notre Dame season. Turns out, I forgot to do this for the 2022 and 2023 seasons. Heading into the [...]
Sun Bowl 2023 Review: Accepting 10 Wins
Notre Dame started quick on Friday afternoon in El Paso and never looked back while burying Oregon State in the 2023 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl. There were some minor struggles along the way but [...]
Give Us All the Frosted Flakes: Sun Bowl Instant Reaction
Marcus Freeman has gotten pretty good at the 'crush teams you're supposed to crush' thing, hasn't he? No offense to Oregon State, which wasn't remotely the same team today in a 40-8 beating at the [...]
2023 Sun Bowl Preview: We Can Opt Out Too
When the Sun Bowl kicks off this Friday afternoon in El Paso it'll have been 34 days since Notre Dame's last football game. A lot has happened since then. The Irish fired their wide receivers [...]
Third Times a Charm: Mike Denbrock Hired as Notre Dame Offensive Coordinator
On Wednesday during Marcus Freeman's ESD press conference he stated that there was no timeline on making a new offensive coordinator hire and that the school would be doing a national search. I joked in [...]
Riley Leonard Transfers to Notre Dame: The Full Scouting Report
After a couple weeks of recruiting and interest from both parties, Notre Dame has officially added quarterback transfer Riley Leonard from Duke on Monday. The rising true senior originally from Fairhope, Alabama on the shores [...]
What if College Football Walked Away from Minor Bowl Games?
You probably shouldn't listen to me if you enjoy bowl games. For years, I've been pushing the narrative that the bowl games are slowly becoming obsolete and that college football needs to do something about [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Who’s to Blame?
I was at my in-laws this past Sunday afternoon having lunch to celebrate my father-in-law's 73rd birthday. As the kids sat down to eat first I was standing in the doorway from the dining room [...]
2023 Bowl Season: Notre Dame to Face Oregon State in the Sun Bowl
After a banner day for the ACC in which undefeated Florida State got snubbed from the playoffs and the league scrambled for several hours to fill their bowl slots, the Fighting Irish finally landed in [...]
Open Portal: Ranking Notre Dame Football’s Transfer Needs (So Far)
The NCAA transfer portal for college football opens up this Monday, December 4th and will remain open all the way through Tuesday, January 2nd. As a reminder, graduate transfers are allowed to enter the transfer [...]
Top 100 2025 S Ivan Taylor Commits to Notre Dame
You want some good news about the Irish football program? Well boy howdy do we have some for you. Potential five-star safety Ivan Taylor became the second member of Notre Dame's 2025 defensive back class [...]
A Stupidly Early Look at the New 2024 ACC Football Conference
Our weeks-long wait until the bowl game is upon us. For this blog, it's the first step towards pivoting towards off-season content. As I searched for some ideas I got to wondering what the ACC [...]
The 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll: Auburn Left Shaken & Stirred
The regular season is over (except Army-Navy of course) and now we await the concluding championship weekend before the last 4-team playoff, accompanied by the weird bowl system, finishes off this 2023 campaign. Here's the [...]
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