I.B.Nation. Welcome back to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast. It is Thursday, March 6, and the offseason is coming close to the part where we get to spring practice, which is a lot of fun. A lot of fun for us college football fans.

But today, with Brian still hanging out in the Bahamas, he was nice enough to show Mr. Bender and I, where he was at before we got the show started today. But I am joined today by Bill Bender.

And I know that Brian and Bill did a lot of shows together during the off season. He was awesome enough to sit in with us today. And we're going to discuss Notre Dame. We're going to talk about if they're going to be a title contender in 2025. We're going to talk about where Bill ranks them in his way too early top 25.

And then we're going to talk big picture other title contenders for the 2025 season. So

what teams are kind of in what tier? Who's looking on to this season to who's going to be

right up there with the Notre Dame's of the world? And Who's looking on to this season to who's going to be right up there with the Notre

Dames of the world?

And then if we got time for it today, we're going to run through some of the top

quarterbacks returning for 2025.

And similar to the teams in contention to playing for a title, there's different

tiers of those as well.

But before we dive into it, Bill, how are you today, man?

Hey, Trevor.

I'm doing great.

Thanks for, yeah, it was real nice of Brian to show us the view of the ocean,

whatever he was laying in.

Cabana, is that what those are called?

But yeah, he's a lot warmer than we are in Ohio.

There's snow on the ground here.

I just wanted to be spring.

You mentioned spring football.

I'm like, where's the spring?

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