Welcome back, everybody back everybody to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by our friends over at Fandul.

Happy Tuesday, everybody, and this is going to be a big show today. We got the playoff rankings coming out tonight. We have a lot of topics we're going to cover today. Notre Dame's regular season is over. Really, the college football regular season is over. There's a lot, a lot to talk about. And so what we're going to do on today's show here, folks, is we're going to cover a couple of different topics. And the first one that we're talking about today is we're going to go through kind of the week 14 recap and go over some of the big games. How does it impact the college football playoff rankings? And then what it all means for Notre Dame ultimately. And we're going to get a lot of clarity on what that means for Notre Dame later on tonight when the playoff rankings come out. And then in part two of today's show, we're talking about the coaching carousel because, Brian, this has been a crazy and is set up to be a crazy offseason of moves. And coaches have already made some moves. So we're going to have a lot of thoughts and comments on that. We're going to great out. Not happy with some of these hires. What's funny is some of the better hires are not being well received by fans because, you know, fans are kind of wild. But yes, it's going to be, it's going to be a blast. It is. And then we are going to wrap up today show with the mailbag show. it's going to be it's going to be a blast it is and then we are going to wrap up today show with the mailbag show there's going to be a lot of questions out there so if you want

to get your question in you can always throw it in throughout the show you know put mb for mailbag

a little mailbox emoji to let brian and i know to set that question aside but b, a lot to talk about today,

and we're going to start with a recap of last weekend in college football.

And it was a crazy one, man.

Rivalry weekend never disappoints.

Never disappoints.

It doesn't, man.

And, you know, it's not every game is great.

Obviously, there were some rivalry games that were kind of boring.

Notre Dame played in one of those. You know, obviously, Stanford's a rival, not like the other big ones,

but it's a rival. You know, there were some great games. Some teams got beat pretty soundly.

You know, Texas, Texas A&M was a pretty darn good game. Alabama, Ole Miss,

or Alabama Auburn was a really good game. George, Georgia Tech was a close game. I wouldn't call it a good game. It was a close game. You know, and then there were some upsets, you know, or I say upsets, but yeah, I mean, upsets. I believe South Carolina was favored to beat Clemson and Clemson and beat him by two touchdowns.

Strong finish of the season for Clemson after just kind of imploding there in the middle,

you know, beat. was favored to beat Clemson and Clemson and beat him by two touchdowns. Strong finish of the season for Clemson after just kind of imploding there in the middle,

you know, beating Louisville and then obviously beating South Carolina to end their season

after what was looking like they weren't going to go to a bowl game.

You know, so, you know, I, it's interesting um kind of looking at at how some of these teams

finished this year you know what i mean so like clemson was sitting there at one point

time to have three and five and they needed to beat florida state louisville and south

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