It's part two of today's show, Trevor, of the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by Fandul, is we're going to talk about the Big Ten.

And how we've done it in the last couple days is we're going to start off with kind of talking Notre Dame and the Big Ten.

And the first two shows, we did ACC and SEC for a reason.

And that is obviously ACC first.

Noor name has a big slate of games against the ACC this year, volume-wise.

Not necessarily like the big games this year are not ACC opponents.

Then you look at the SEC and it's, okay, you've got two pretty big games against

SEC teams this year.

Arguably the best team you're going to play is the SEC.

And that's the conference you're still trying to prove yourself against.

Then we come to the Big Ten.

And whenever you talk about the Big Ten, the conversation is not the same.

It's, okay, should Notre Dame be in the Big Ten?

Should they join the Big Ten?

What Big Ten team should they be playing?

When you look at Notre Dame schedule this year, they have two Big Ten opponents, but honestly, Purdue's not very good. And nobody really views USC as a Big Ten team. They just happen to be in that league. It's one of the West Coast versions of it. You don't have a schedule littered with the traditional Big Ten teams like you used to have. When I was growing up, Trevor, in September almost every year, Notre Dame is playing Purdue, Michigan, and Michigan State almost every year. And then there's years where Northwestern is mixed in and Indiana was mixed in in the 90s one time. You know, you'd get some of those other games mixed in. You played Ohio State in the mid-90s. And so you'd have Northwestern on there. So I mean, 1993, Notre Dame kicks the season off against Northwestern.

And that year, I believe Notre Dame played three big 10 teams that year.

Obviously, you played Michigan, you played Michigan State, you played Purdue, Northwest.

Actually, the first four games of the year were all big 10 teams, Northwestern at Michigan,

home against Michigan State at Purdue, all wins. And so that used to be a big part of the schedule. And whenever

people talk about, you know, when Notre Dame is going to join a league, it's going to be the Big Ten.

So there's always that natural connection between Notre Dame and the Big Ten. So what we're going to

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