All right, Brian, it's time to start talking some Big Ten football.

We are back here with another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast, part of the sponsored by Fandual, brought to you by the Believe Network.

And Brian, the Big Ten is interesting this year.

Last year, when we previewed the SEC, we kind of talked about how Big Ten probably was the best conference in football last year. Last year, when we previewed the SEC, we kind of talked about how Big Ten probably was the

best conference in football last year. This year, they enter in. Now it's again, it's a question of

are they top heavy? Are they a little bit more deep this year? What are we thinking about

the Big Ten when we start to break this conference down? I don't know what you're on this is, Trev, but here's mine. The Big Ten was the best league last year because they were the best team. They were the best league. They were the team that had the most title contenders at the top, in my opinion. And obviously, the national champion came from there. Oregon was a really good team. Oregon's not a one and done in the playoff if they don't have to play Ohio State in the

quarterfinal. I've said this before. I think there's only two teams in the quarterfinals,

maybe three, that beat Oregon. And it's Notre Dame, Texas, and Ohio State, obviously.

I don't know that Georgia beats Oregon without Carson Beck and with the way that that team was.

I don't know that they, I think they would have had a similar problem than Notre Dame.

They would have maybe scored a little bit more, but they weren't going to, they were going to score.

They were going to, that secondary was going to struggle against Oregon. And, and, you know,

and then Penn State obviously is a semi-final team. And then you look at Ohio State wins a national

championship. And, and then you look at some of the success they had in the bowl season.

You know, USC goes down and beats Texas A&M. Michigan goes and beats Alabama. And you say, okay, boy, yeah, the Big Ten had a pretty

good postseason run. And the only disappointing Big Ten team was disappointing because they had to

play another Big Ten team. And I think that kind of factors into it, Trev. But when you look at it,

it's like last year, I do think the Big 10 was the best conference in college football. I think

the SEC is going to have a big say in that this year. But here's the thing, Treb, in my opinion,

I think the Big Ten is deeper this year. I don't know if it's going to be quite a strong one to three. I think it'll be pretty good one to two, three and four and five. We'll see. But I think the middle of the Big Ten, which I thought was just kind of okay last year. I think the top five to six were pretty good. I think Illinois was a pretty good football team last year.

You know, they went and beat South Carolina in a bowl game.

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