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Best of IB: Top QB Battles In CFB

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Sports, Football, Big Ten, Nfl Draft, Ncaa Team, Notre Dame

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Irish Breakdown takes a look back at the best segments of the week!

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0:00.0

Brian, on the final part of today's show here in the Irish Breakdown podcast brought

0:21.9

you by our friends over at Fanduil, we're kind of broadening the scope a little bit.

0:25.4

We're talking big picture college football.

0:29.1

And what we're talking about here, thankfully we don't have to have this discussion

0:33.5

of going on in South Bend.

0:34.8

We'll talk about impactful quarterback battles that are going on across the country. And a couple of things play a factor here. Some of it going on in South Bend. We'll talk about impactful quarterback battles that are going on across the country.

0:39.0

And a couple of things play a factor here. Some of it's just there were teams that have impactful quarterback battles going on.

0:45.3

And then depending on the school, the winner of that battle could have a bigger impact across the board in college football.

0:53.0

So we wanted to dive into some of those. There's some interesting quarterback competitions going on across the country in college football. So we wanted to dive into some of those.

0:55.0

There's some interesting quarterback competitions going on across the country this year.

1:00.4

There certainly are, and there's a couple on Notre Dame's schedule as well, Trev.

1:04.4

But, you know, this is true every year in college football,

1:06.9

there's always years where the top programs or teams that are trying to ascend or

1:12.7

a continue in ascent that maybe began, you know, Virginia's an example. Talk about that.

1:18.4

You know, teams that are looking to bounce back are going to do so with needing a quarterback

1:22.4

to play well, but they don't know who their quarterback is going to the spring. And of course,

1:25.8

as Notre Dame fans, we're not unfamiliar with quarterback battles, right? We went through one last

1:30.8

year. We went through one in 2022. We went through one kind of in 2021. And, you know, 2018,

1:38.2

2016. You know, we've seen these before. And it's just fun to be on the opposite side of this where we're not having

1:45.6

a conversation about quarterback battle. I know there's people that are trying to force a debate

1:50.1

this summer, this offseason about a quarterback battle, but we're not talking about backup quarterback

1:55.2

battles right now. We'll talk more about that in the fall when it matters, not right now in the

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