I.B.Nation. Welcome back to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by our friends over at Fandul.

Happy Wednesday, everybody, and we have a loaded show coming your way today.

There's a bunch of different topics that we're going to cover.

And look, fact of the matter is, if you have a phone or a TV or a laptop, or if you woke up this morning, I'm sure that you've seen and or heard that people are pretty upset.

And there are some fan bases and some talking heads and some national media pundits that are beside themselves at what Notre Dame's ranking is in the latest CFB ranking.

And so Brian's been doing his due diligence on Twitter and providing people with facts,

encountering a lot of the very lazy narratives. And so what we're going to do in part

one of today's show is we are simply going to address some of the things that may or may

not be out there. We're going to debunk a lot of things that we've

been hearing a lot. And we're going to be using a lot of the different metrics that we know

that the committee uses and some of the metrics that some of the anti-Noterdane people also use.

And to their dismay, it proves the point of Notre Dame being ranked ahead correct.

And then it is Wednesday, so we are also

going to be talking about Notre Dame's Keys to Victory because they do still have a matchup this

Saturday against Syracuse Orange for Senior Day. But Brian, man, it has been a crazy last

15 hours. It's been kind of fun. And I can't say that I'm surprised that we're saying the hand

ringing that we're saying because of who Nordame is ranked ahead of. You know, you can't,

you can't fool with Bama. You got to, you got to pretend like this is still Nick Sabin's Alabama.

Somebody I saw on Twitter said, if Nick Saban was still the coach the Alabama wouldn't be nine and I'm

like yeah because they wouldn't have two losses because they wouldn't have lost to Florida State

and probably wouldn't have lost Oklahoma if Nick Saban was the coach so yeah there's just been a lot of

of um it's just it's kind of hilarious I mean you see some of the people are good you know people they just I think have bought into lazy narratives other, it's kind of hilarious. I mean, you see, some of the people are good, you know, people.

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