Notre Dame Football Mailbag - Part II

Irish Breakdown

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

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🗓️ 25 April 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Irish Breakdown answers questions about Notre Dame Football, Irish Recruiting and college football in the latest mailbag

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0:00.0	We're rolling here on the Irish Breakdown podcast brought brought to you by our friends over at Fandu.
0:21.6	We got the Friday Free For All mailbag going on, answering some great questions so far today, man.
0:26.8	It's been fun.
0:28.8	Yeah, I'm ready for more.
0:29.7	You guys have got some great questions in there today.
0:31.4	Keep them coming, and we'll get rocking and rolling.
0:35.3	Adam Garcia, which team making it to the title game surprised you more and why?
0:39.7	The 2012 Notre Dame team or the 2024 Notre Dame team?
0:44.6	2012.
0:46.0	I mean, that team was coming off back to back eight and five years and they were a preseason
0:50.0	underranked team.
0:50.9	Notre Dame was a talented team in 2024.
0:53.7	We thought they were a playoff team
0:56.2	going into 2024. So that wasn't a shocking season. It was more about the shocking part was how
1:03.5	they rebounded after losing to Northern Illinois. That was the shocking part. But no, I think I had
1:09.0	Notre Dame saying they should minimum be a semi-final team
1:12.0	in 2024. So that team should have been really good. We thought they're going to be really good.
1:17.4	The schedule wasn't a gauntlet. And so, you know, I,
1:27.4	2012, I did not see that coming at all.
1:29.6	No, at the start of the season agreed with you wholeheartedly.
1:33.5	I will say that, and I'm going with 2012 as well.
1:36.5	I will say, though, once the injury started piling up for Notre Dame as the season
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