I.B. Nation, welcome back to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast. I am back with you,

ready to talk some Notre Dame football and a little bit about the Heisman trophy. So that's what

we're going to discuss today. Last couple days, I've been spending a lot of time

kind of getting the next month or so, actually the next couple months, really plotted out of what

we're going to discuss so we can make sure that we hit everything. And so today I'm going to talk about

Notre Dame's freshman class, true freshman class, because why am I only talking about true freshman and not red shirt

freshman? Because tomorrow, Vince and I are going to talk about the sophomore surge that could

happen at Notre Dame this year. And we're going to talk about the sophomores that could have

an impact. And those will be second year players. So when we have these conversations, we will dive

into what guys are as far as their eligibility,

not their eligibility, but like what they are in school, how Notre Dame counts their roster.

So we'll talk about that.

Going to have a lot of fun this week.

We're going to talk about breakout players on Thursday.

We're going to get to a mailbag on Friday.

Then next week we're going to talk about the schedule. We're

going to do our four-quarter breakdown. We're going to talk about all-American candidates. It's going to be

a ton of fun. We have so much plotted out for these next couple months. It's going to be a lot of fun.

A couple of things we're going to do. We're going to start this Thursday. Obviously obviously tomorrow, Wednesdays, every Wednesday will still be our normal buy-so hold at the end of our

show. And then on Thursdays, we're going to start talking about some kind of national topics.

And so for the first few Thursdays, we are going to dive into the big four conferences and we will

do our conference previews. And so we'll go through and make our

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