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IB’s Way Too Early Top 25 For 2026 - Teams 10-1

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Irish Breakdown

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

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

With the spring semester now started and with us now knowing who will, and won’t, be on the Notre Dame roster in 2026 it’s time for the Irish Breakdown Way-Too-Early Top 25 rankings.

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0:00.0

Brian, I think it's time to dive into the top tens. What do you say here, bro? About that time. At my number 10 spot, I have the BYU Cougars. And I really like what they have coming back. First and foremost, Kalani Sataki, he's 23 and 4 in the last two seasons. And this is the first year that he's had a returning starting quarterback in Bear Bachmeier. L.J. Martin coming back at

0:38.4

running back is also huge for them. They kept their portal losses to a minimum. They lost

0:42.5

mostly depth pieces. And there was really only three portal losses that they had where

0:47.0

if position battles kind of panned out the way that they thought they were going to,

0:51.2

the players who transferred might have started. They also bring back Parker Kingston at wide receiver.

0:56.0

That's huge for them.

0:56.7

He was their leading receiver.

0:57.8

66 catches, 924 yards.

1:00.6

He averaged 14 yards of catch and five touchdowns.

1:03.3

Key pieces come back in both sides of the trenches from a leadership and from a production

1:07.1

standpoint.

1:08.6

BYU is in a spot where now they have a quarterback that's a dual threat.

1:12.7

He has experience in big games, played against Texas Tech twice, as a true freshman played

1:17.5

in the conference championship game. And honestly, the move to get him, I'm still in love with,

1:22.3

because after the whole thing went down with Jake Retzlaff, you kind of had to turn to a true

1:26.1

freshman of Bear Bachmeier who ended up leaving Stanford. And so I think BYU is kind of poised to go on another run. Kalani Sataki is absolutely cooking right now in Provo, Utah. Very excited to see what they do when Notre Dame comes to town as well. I think that that has the potential, Brian, to be a top 10 matchup that not enough people are talking about.

1:48.8

I'm just going to quickly, your next two, Trev, I'm going to follow up just with my comments and then skip them because these are the next two we have the same.

1:52.9

I echo everything you said.

1:54.2

I think getting Walker Lyons out of the portal also helps their past game from USC.

1:58.2

They returned four starting offensive linemen from a team that

2:01.3

won 11 games last year. And they returned most of their top players on the D-line. They return a lot

2:07.4

from the secondary, and they return two of their three starting linebackers. So this team brings back a

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