Getting into part three of the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought to you by our friends over at Fandu.

We got the Friday free-for-all mailback getting us kicked off here.

In part three, we got Jason Rose.

He says, hey, guys, do you think Notre Dame has the most talented roster in college football this year?

I think they might on real amount of depth and mix of veterans and youngsters.

You know, I've been on record of saying this before, Jason, and I'll gladly say it again. I absolutely think Notre Dame has the best roster coming back to Cogs football. Is it head and shoulders above everybody else? No, it's not, but I think it's the best. So look, you've got an elite quarterback. No, you don't have a lot of experience at running back, but I don't care about experience at running back.

I care about talent.

They've got talent.

They've got depth of talent.

Receiver, sure, there's things to prove a receiver.

So is such as true for some of the other teams that are in contention for top rosters.

I think Oregon's in the conversation for top roster.

They've got questions at receiver two from an experience standpoint. In the past,

they've had experience and maybe some talent issues compared to top units. I don't think they

have a talent issue in 2026. I think they have an experience issue and can they develop it and use

it correctly? Tight end room again.

There's other rooms with more experience, but there aren't a whole lot of rooms that I would say have more talent than what Notre Dame has. There's a couple that have really good

tight end rooms. And I think Notre Dame has kind of, you know, it's gone through a little bit of

this over the years of tight end where sometimes it's really good, but sometimes it's not.

You know, you think of, man, how that that 2020 tight end room with, you know, Michael

Mayor and Brock Wright and Tommy Trumbull, but there was also years where it was like

Tyler Lewatua, Nick Wisher, it was a nice tight end, but like, you know, and it's like, yeah, it wasn't a great room in those years.

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