What's up Irish Breakdown Nation? We are back. It is a Thursday. It is August 7th,

2025, and we have a great topic to get after today. And it is Iris Breakdown, brought to you by

Fanduel. And we are excited about this. This is one of our fun prediction type shows, Trev.

And, you know, we get to kind of dive in and see kind of nationally what people think about

Notre Dame and what we think they're going to think about Notre Dame in the preseason

and obviously as the season wears on. And so that means all American talk. And we're going to go offense.

We're going to go defense. And then later on, we're going to talk about Syracuse and Notre Dame's

opponent towards the end of the season. I believe that is senior night for Notre Dame. So last home game

of the season. And so we will preview the orange, no longer the orange men. I know that happened a long time ago. Whenever I think of Syracuse, I think of the Orange Men, not the Orange, which is whatever. But, Trev, how are you doing today? We're good, man. I saw our girl Karen in the chat. And this is how you know we're getting close to kickoff. She's got the countdown roll, and we are 24 days away from Notre Dame kicking off their season. I'm good, man. It's good

to have this talk about all American candidates. We get a lot of mailbag questions and

buy-sell holds around, you know, who do we think? And so what we did today is Vince and I sat down

and we talked through who we believe

those candidates are. And we broke them down into three different kind of categories because

not everybody is not all all Americans are created equal. You go into the season. There's some

unknowns. There are some dark horses. And so that's what we did. We separated the candidates into the

obvious ones. We split it up between offensive defense. We began that's what we did. We separated the candidates into the obvious ones.

We split it up between offensive defense. We begin with the top tier candidates. And then we're

going to move and discuss about the breakout candidates. And then we're going to have some

dark horse candidates, ones that may not have had a lot of production last season or

throughout their college careers. But because of how we think they're going to fit into the system or what their role is going to be on this team, we think they could be a dark horse to be an All-American for Notre Dame this season. And then we're going to round it all out with predictions of who we actually think are going to become All-Americans on Notre Dame's team. I would love for it to be 11 on offense and 11 on defense, as unrealistic as

that would be, but it would be a fun conversation nonetheless. But Vince, I'm ready to go, man. Yeah, we're going to have a fun combo about this whole thing anyway, because I think there's a lot of options for the various tiers that we kind of came up with. And there's a lot of talent on this team. We've been telling you guys that for a long time.

This team is deep.

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