I.B.Nation. Welcome back to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought to you by Fandul.

Happy Tuesday. It is August 12th, which means we are now under the 20-day mark until Notre Dame begins their 2025 season.

They kick off in 19 days down in Miami inside a hard rock stadium.

And we are going to continue a lot of what we're doing in the offseason here.

Today we are going to be previewing the SEC.

Now, similar to what we did yesterday is we're going to start out by talking about what

implications that has for Notre Dame.

Because in recent seasons, Notre Dame has kind of picked up their performance, I guess you

could say, against the SEC, and they've

started to perform a little bit better, especially under this new regime with Marcus Freeman.

But there were some little hints of it starting to turn around before he took over his head

coach in 2022. And then afterwards, we're going to dive into our conference preview,

looking at the conference as a whole whole very similar to what we did yesterday

we're going over conference superlatives we're going to be talking about offensive players of the

year and defensive players of the year and then of course we'll be breaking down who we believe to

be top to bottom where the teams are going to be ranked but brian it is another addition

of our conference previews here and this one's going to be another fun one.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to this one, Trevor, because obviously anytime you're talking about

the SEC, it's going to spark some conversation. And it's going to spark some debate about,

you know, the dominance of the SEC and are they the best conference out there? And, and you get back

into it. It's funny listening to SEC people make

arguments that that back up what I used to say as to why there were years, they weren't the

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