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We are 17 days away from Notre Dame kicking off the 2024 season. I know y'all are excited. I'm certainly excited. Can't wait to get this season started and just find out how good this team is. There's still so much to talk about. Plenty of things happening. All types of news, it never stops. The news never stops. But it's all just talk until we can find out what this team is. But I do think that there's a lot of things that as we look at this team, there's a lot of things to be excited about. There's still some question marks and concerns. And so what I want to do today in advance of tomorrow's practice viewing, which will be our last practice viewing, is really just dive into several topics in regard to just this Notre Dame football team. And just a scheduling note, we will not be doing a bicell hold today. I've been dealing with our dog Rita is very sick. Angela's at the emergency room with her now. Just haven't been able to take the time to make the cards and do all that kind of stuff with the bicell hold. But I'm going to reschedule it either for tomorrow or potentially after the practice viewing is kind of my plan right now, is to, you know, I'm going to have actually one of our new writers is going to be with me tomorrow, Trevor Trowbridge is going to be on the show with me tomorrow. So we're going to talk about the practice. And then I'm what most likely will have the bicell hold after that. So that's what we'll do. So apologize for not getting that today, but I still have some very good stuff to talk with you guys about today. And I'm very excited about today's topics. We're going to talk about the Notre Dame and the coaches poll or the AP poll. We are going to talk about the sporting news. All Americans came out. And so we're going to kind of talk about what how they view Notre Dame, what it means for Notre Dame and just give some context about the Notre Dame schedule. And then of course, we'll dive into our two main topics today. And they kind of go hand in hand, but basically it's this. What are the five sort of areas, the sort of specific areas, you say, is, you know, like yesterday, we had some fun yesterday, making our predictions for the, for the new championship game and the college football playoff. And as I said, I had some fun yesterday, right? Like I told y'all, like my home resides coming out. I just can't pick Notre Dame to lose in anybody. You know, it was meant to be fun, not like, okay, this is my very thorough. This is if I was writing a preseason magazine. This is how it be. Had some fun with it. But it's also fun built around my belief in this football team. And it's potential. Again, that's a word that's that has, you know, it's a double edged sword type of word because potential can mean, boy, there's a lot of good things to be excited about. But normally when you're talking about potential, you're talking about things that are not established or proven yet. And that's not always a good thing. And so right now, this team has a lot about potential. But, you know, what are five areas that I look back and say, you know, Brian, why are you so confident about this team? You know, I've had people ask me, you know, what was the last time you were this confident about a team? Well, probably 2018, maybe, you know, you could talk about 2015 in certain areas, but other areas not so much. And I didn't see 2020, 2012 coming at all. So, you know, what makes you so confident about this team? Well, I'm going to give you the, the, we're the top five reasons. And some of them are going to be a little bit more broad to incorporate several different aspects. But, you know, just looking at it and saying, these are the five reasons that I am legitimately excited about this team and not your normal every year. You're always excited. 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And listeners of this show will get a $75 sponsor job credit to get your jobs more visibility at indeed.com/bluewire. Just go to indeed.com/bluewire right now and support our show by saying that you heard about Indeed on this podcast. That's indeed.com/bluewire. Terms and conditions apply. Need to hire? You need Indeed. So part one of today's show is just some news right? Obviously Notre Dame this week the AP poll came out. The coaches poll came out last week. Notre Dame was ranked seventh in the coaches poll and the AP poll was ranked came out yesterday and Notre Dame was ranked seventh in the AP poll. This marked I believe the fifth time out of the last six years that Notre Dame has started the season in in the top 10. They started last and I'm going to go through this a little bit last year. They started 13th, but the previous year they were fifth. So I'm going to kind of go over just kind of Notre Dame in the AP poll and just kind of get into some different aspects of just just it's just kind of informative. It doesn't necessarily have any broad broad kind of topics and conversation, but I did find it interesting. There was a tweet from Brett McMurphy that I saw the other day that that I found fascinating and I don't often say say that about that, but when you look at Brett McMurphy and he had a comment and it's something long lines of how many years in a row that the national champion has been a team that ranked in the top seven to start the season. So I'm actually going to pull that up here real quick and see what he said. So let me find his tweet real fast. So he said, since 2004, every national champion ranked among the AP top seven with two exceptions. Florida State was ranked 11th in 2013 and 2010 Auburn ranked 22nd. So all the way back to 2004, a span of over 20 seasons, only two national champions began the year outside of the top seven in the pre-season AP poll. So, you know, again, trends, it doesn't mean anything, but it's a trend to look at. When you look at Notre Dame in the AP poll in recent seasons, last year, as I mentioned Notre Dame began the season ranked 13th. They finished 14th. Obviously climbed as high as number nine, were as low as number 22. They were number 16 going into the bowl game beat number 19 Oregon State in the Sun Bowl, which jumped the Irish up to 14. I don't normally complain about postseason rankings because it doesn't really matter if you're number one, but I did not understand last year's rankings. To be honestly, I didn't understand why Notre Dame was ranked as low as they were. I definitely didn't understand me. I kind of understood why they were behind Penn State, although I don't agree with it. You know, Notre Dame and Penn State had a common opponent and Notre Dame was far more competitive against that common opponent than Penn State was. They both had the same record, but the team that really I thought made no sense to be ahead in her name is that Arizona ranked 11th. And Arizona finished the year 10 and 3 just like Notre Dame, but they had three common opponents. And Arizona beat Stanford on the road 21 to 20. Notre Dame beat Stanford on the road 56 to 23. Arizona lost to USC at USC and triple overtime. Notre Dame beat USA at home 48 to 20. And then Arizona beat Oregon State at home 2724. Notre Dame beat Oregon State 40 to eight. I don't put as much stock in that one because that was not the same Oregon State team that Arizona played in the regular season. That's that's fair. That's fine. But you know, they still stomped that team and Notre Dame was missing a lot of guys from that game as well. So I didn't understand why Arizona's ranked the head of Notre Dame. I thought Notre Dame should have been 12th, but at the end of the day, who cares? If you're 14th or 12th, you're not number one, and you're not in the top five. And that's really kind of what matters. 2022, Notre Dame began the season ranked fifth and dropped all the way out of the top 25 after the first two games. And that was after the loss of Ohio State Marshall didn't get back in until November when they beat Clemson. And then of course, climbed up the number 15 won their bowl game over number 19 South Carolina. Notre Dame was, I believe, 21st going into the bowl season and beat South Carolina, who was ranked 19th, which jumped the Irish up to 18 in 2021. Notre Dame began the preseason ranked ninth and finished the season ranked eighth. In 2020, Notre Dame began the season ranked 10th and ended the season ranked fifth. So back to back years, where Notre Dame actually ranked higher than they began. For those who say that Notre Dame is constantly overrated. 2019, they began the year ninth, ended 12th. 2018, they began 12th, finished fifth. 2017, they were not ranked at all finished 11th. 2016 was the complete opposite. They began the season 10th, finished unranked. 2015, they began at 11th, ended at 11th. Again, I felt that was too low, but at the end of it is a matter. 2014, they began 17th and finished unranked. 2013, they began 14th and ended 20th. 2012, they began unranked, finished the season's fourth. 2011, they began 16th, finished unranked. And in 2020, they began unranked and unranked. And we're never ranked at any point in the season. So that is Notre Dame's recent history with the AP poll. I don't really care to get into the whole the debate over all Notre Dame's always overrated. That's an emotional fan reaction. And it really doesn't require much of response because as I pointed out, that's just not true. And it's just not really something I really feel like discussing today or diving into today. So that is Notre Dame and the coach's poll. They do begin seventh. It doesn't have a huge impact on the postseason and the cost of all playoff as much as is it used to, obviously. But I do think perception matters. I do think perception of what a team is does impact the college football playoff rankings to a degree. Even though they don't look at it and say, Hey, AP has them here, we should rank them there. I do think there's a perception of where teams are ranked, not just Notre Dame, but also their opponents that factors into it. And when you look at the AP poll, Notre Dame begins the season against number 20, Texas A&M. So a road game against a ranked opponent is how you start your season. The number 10 team in the country, according both polls is Florida State. Florida State comes to Notre Dame on November 9th. If Florida State only has one loss by then, they're most likely still a top 10 caliber team. Although if you look at Florida State's schedule, there's at least a decent chance that they're going to be undefeated when they come into Notre Dame Stadium. And on November 9th this season, you look at their schedule, there's certainly some challenging games that Florida State has to contend with in order to get to that point. They kick the season off of the game in Ireland against Georgia Tech. I think Florida State wins that game, but it's not going to be a cake walk. They play BC in week two, then they get a buy, then they play a really good Memphis team in week three. I have Memphis in the college wall playoff as the group of five representative. They play Cal, who's got some, some, I think it's going to be a little bit feistier than people think at SMU, it's a really good football team and then home against Clemson. So the start to their season, there are not a lot of cake walks on the schedule for Florida State, but I think they win them all. They get most of them at home. The only true road game they have is against SMU. Then they have a buy, then they play at Duke, should be a win. This team's this Duke team's not as good as last year's Duke team. This is the big game right here that could determine whether or not Florida State is a top 10 team when they come to Notre Dame Stadium. I think this is important for the name. If Notre Dame has a loss, a game like this is going to be huge. They need Florida State to be a top 10 team if Notre Dame has a loss. If Notre Dame goes undefeated, it doesn't matter. They're going to be the five seed. I mean that there's no possible way that there's another group of five undefeated team. I don't, I don't think there's a scenario. I mean, there's always the outside chance that three teams from a conference finish undefeated and one of them doesn't get into the playoff. Maybe, I mean, into the conference title game, maybe that's highly unlikely. It's a little more likely now with the bigger leagues because there's more chances that certain teams don't play each other as there used to be, like, you know, back in the day when the big 10 was only 10 teams, there's not possible for two teams to go undefeated in the big 10. It just wasn't possible because everybody played each other. A little bit more possible now, highly unlikely. So the odds are, if Notre Dame's undefeated, it doesn't matter what Florida State could be 0 and 8 coming into that game and it wouldn't matter. Notre Dame will be a five seed. But if there is a loss on Notre Dame's docket or let's say the schedule hasn't been as good as I think it's going to be and they kind of need that boost or maybe there's not as much chaos as I think that there is and they kind of need that boost. It's huge for Notre Dame if Florida State's a top 10 team when they come into this into Notre Dame Stadium on November 9th. Obviously, they got to avoid getting upset in those first five games. They've got to make sure they beat Clemson at home. That's not going to be easy. And then you've got Miami on October 26th at Miami. It's going to be a huge game, huge game. This is going to be a talented Miami team, Miami team that's going to have their own battle the week before. They play at Louisville the week before they also play at Cal. They also play Virginia Tech at home. They play at Florida. So we're going to know a lot about those two football teams and they play. And then of course, Florida State, the next week plays North Carolina at home. That should be a win. And then of course, they come to Notre Dame Stadium. So Florida State was ranked 10th and then USC who Notre Dame begins the ends the season with is ranked 23rd in both polls. So that is that is where you are with that. I'm going to respond to some archer said, he said, Beatty, if two teams from the same conference went undefeated in the regular season, I could see the loser of that game getting the five seat above Notre Dame if they were ranked higher than they're going into the championship game. No, no, they're they're not going to have a 12 and 0 Notre Dame team ranked lower than a team that lost a conference title game. It's just there's no way that that happens, in my opinion, no way. But to your point, this is also why it is important that a team like Florida State be really good archers. So like, let's just say, you know, that that scenario was there and and I don't know how that happens because of who plays who this season. You know, in the ACC, it's not really possible in my opinion for two teams to be undefeated unless it's a non Miami, Florida State or Clemson, because they play each other. In the in in the SEC, there I don't know that anybody there like the way that it circles it have to be a team that we're not expecting to be there. It can't be Oregon and Ohio State. It can't be Ohio State and Michigan. Maybe it's Oregon and Michigan. It can't be one of those two teams and Penn State because they all play each other. So the odds of it happening are very, very, very slim. But even still, if one of those two teams loses, I don't see a team that's got a loss and most of those teams will have an FCS win, they're not going to be ranked the head of Notre Dame who's undefeated. It's just it's just not going to happen in my opinion. But to your point is, is we could debate that all day. It's what ifs. We don't know. What I think we can agree on, however, is what I said is if Florida State is a top 10 team when they come to Notre Dame on November 9th. And if USC is still ranked when they play the end of the season, Notre Dame needs those two teams on their schedule to stay ranked all year or at least be ranked when they play Notre Dame. That is going to be huge for that. Because if Notre Dame has two wins over ranked opponents, especially if Florida State's a top 10 team, that's going to really bolster their resume because the committee is made up of human beings. And human beings are going to have a natural recency bias. I think the committee does a great job of trying to avoid that as much as they can, unlike the polls, which are very reactionary. There's still a recency bias to it. And I think that's something that factors into it to where why it is really important that those two teams be ranked. So you and I could go back and forth about whether they would or wouldn't. We've neither of a snow, you can make your case, I can make mine, but we can definitely come down the same side of saying if these two teams are ranked, that gives Notre Dame their absolute best shot of really locking down that number five, no matter what else anybody else does. And I think that's kind of why it's important that those two teams are perceived as really good teams early in the season. Because if you're perceived as a good team and you stumble your, you stub your toe a little bit early in the season, it doesn't take you as much work to get back into the top 25 as it does. If let's say you're not perceived very highly, and you then, you know, come into the season and you win some games and you're just not getting a lot of love and not getting a lot of attention. If a team that was take Duke, for example, that Notre Dame beat last year, I think Duke was ranked 17th in Notre Dame played. If you're talking about a team that was already ranked 15th and did what Duke did the first four weeks, you know, beat Northwestern beat Clemson by three touchdowns, they probably are climbing into the top 10 by the time that those two teams play. And, you know, for USC fans, you know, can I, can I remember this, the 2016 team from USC began that season. USC was ranked 20th coming into the season, got blasted by Alabama, beat Utah State, then got blasted by Stanford and then beat Utah. That team climbed all the way up to ninth. In the polls, they only beat two ranked teams along the way to get there. But there was a perception that this was supposed to be a pretty good USC team. And I think that helped them climb back in. I think USC's ranking was where it should have been. But I think it is can be harder to climb there when you're not perceived to be good. And I think that's why those things really help Notre Dame that these teams are ranked and that they stay ranked as the season goes on. Other bit of news from today that I thought was very fascinating is sporting news came out with their preseason All-American team. My guy Bill Bender wrote the article, Bill's a great guy. If you guys have not watched the CFB Nation channel, they do a show over there. They recorded today. We're going to put the two segments up for tomorrow. They broke down their All-American team, their preseason top 25 and some other topics today. So that'll be on the CFB Nation channel tomorrow. Bill does a great job. Very fair. I think they try to do right with their All-American rankings. But it matters. Their All-American rankings matter because sporting news is one of the five, what are considered the main All-American teams. And by that, I mean, those are the five that determine whether you're a consensus or unanimous All-American. You know, there's a lot of other ESPN has one, the athletics, CBS sports. There's all types of All-American teams. But it's sporting news. It's Associated Press. It's Walter Camp. It's the Football Writers Association of America and the American Football Coaches Association. Those are the five All-American teams that make up whether you're unanimous or consensus. Obviously last year, Joe Walton, Xavier Watts, were unanimous, which meant they were first team on sporting news. And then the other four, Notre Dame had five players, five players that were named All-Americans by CBS sports. I mean, excuse me, by sporting news today. And they were three on the first team, one on the second team offense, and then one on the second team special teams. So Notre Dame was obviously a team that was very well represented on that list. You know what I did not do? I did not go look and see how many each team had. I'm actually going to kind of do that as we're talking. I'm seeing if Bill wrote about that. He said, looks like Ohio State had the most Ohio State's had seven players on their All-American team. Notre Dame was second with five. That was more than Alabama and Georgia, who each had four. Michigan, Oregon, and Texas each had three. So Notre Dame had the most, had the most first team All-Americans and, I mean, All-Americans total. And here's an interesting thing reading through Bill's note. Ohio State had the most, but five of their seven were second team players. And Georgia, looking at Georgia's list, two of Georgia's four were on the first team. So that means the other two were on the second team. And Alabama, see here, Alabama had, see, they had their center, the transfer from Washington, Caleb Downs, and a kicker. So, Bama had three on their first team as well, including a specialist. So Notre Dame in Michigan and Alabama looks like tied for the most first teamers. And so that's a very interesting statistic. And it's kind of a bit of like a prequel, right, a preview, so to speak, of the topic I'm going to get into today. When I talk about how talented this Notre Dame team is, guys, this isn't just me, a Notre Dame fan, a Notre Dame analyst, a Notre Dame podcaster with, you know, all the different hats that I wear, that's just hyping up his team. This is outsiders, films ESPN has Notre Dame ranked fifth. You know, you talk about the Walter Camp preseason All-American list. They had four guys on there. They had Xavier Watts, Howard Cross, Benjamin Morrison, and Jane Harrison. Others, others had five, with Mitch 11s being the fifth on, on other preseason lists. So this isn't just, this isn't just Irish breakdown saying, hey, you know, we're excited about this team, but nobody else is. There's a lot of excitement about it. And the fact that five guys made the preseason sporting news list. And, and I know that team, I know their process a little bit. I've talked to their guys about their process in the past. They do a lot of research, a lot of research. They ask people questions, they ask, they look, they want data. So for example, I know for a fact that one of the factors that went into the decision making for their first team All-American cornerbacks, of which Benjamin Morrison is one, I should have led with this, the three first team All-Americans for Notre Dame were Howard Cross, Xavier Watts, and Benjamin Morrison. Second team was Mitch 11 to tie it in and Jane Harrison is a kick returner. But I know for a fact that one of the things that they factored into for having Benjamin Morrison on the first team, was looking at his, his, his pro football focus numbers, you know, where he was in completion percentage numbers for targets and all that kind of stuff. They took into account how he handled Marvin Harrison Jr. the last two years. So they do their research and I really respect that and appreciate that. I actually texted one of their guys today and I was like, thank you for putting Trevion Henderson on the All-American squad and not quenched on Juckins because that tells me that they're not going with what the, you know, the hype is they're going with the guy that they feel is the better player and that they projected they have a better year and I tend to agree with them. But I think Trevion Henderson is a significantly better running back than quenched on Junkins if he can just stay healthy. That's going to be the big king for Trevion. But it is still a big honor for Notre Dame to have three first team All-Americans on the defense and obviously you have two, two other players on the second team. As I said, perception matters a lot, folks. It does. It matters when it comes to the human factor of rankings. It matters when it comes to the perception among, you know, with recruits. The perception within your program, the expectations, guys have to know what the expectations are. And there's just a lot of different ways where the perception matters. And when you talk about Notre Dame being a consensus top 10 team, you talk about Notre Dame having more preseason All-Americans than Georgia or Alabama or Michigan or Oregon or Texas. You start to understand why there's the excitement that there is for Notre Dame. Now Notre Dame needs to go out there and back that up. That's going to be the final step for this. But quite an honor for Xavier Watts and Benjamin Morrison and Howard Cross and Mitchell Evans and Jane Harrison. Quite an honor. And the crazy thing you want to talk about how much talent Notre Dame has, Jane Harrison's, by everyone that I've seen is either a first or second team preseason All-American as a kick returner. He does not have the highest kick return average for a Notre Dame returner from last year. Jadarim Price does. It just kind of speaks to the kind of playmakers that Notre Dame has. But it also shows, when that list shows kind of why Notre Dame, Ohio State, Georgia, Alabama, Oregon, Texas are all considered teams that are going to be really good football teams this year because there are a lot of those all-American type of players. And if you want to know why some people still have Michigan as being a top 10 to 15 team, it's right there. It speaks to it. They've got three guys on the first team All-America squad. Will Johnson, Mason Graham, and then of course they're tied in, Colston Loveland. And I was actually asked this by somebody recently like what I have, Mitchell Evans is my first team All-American or Colston Loveland. And I said I'd have Colston Loveland as my first team All-American just because I don't know that I'd say he's more talented in Mitchell Evans, but he's certainly more proven and he proved that he could stay healthy. And when you got two pretty good players, that has to matter. And I thought he was pretty clutch last year as well. 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