Notre Dame Is Independent For A Reason, And It’s Not Why Most Think

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

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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In part one of today’s show, Bryan and Trevor push back on the constant whining from other coaches, media members and fans about why Notre Dame remains an independent program.

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everyone to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by our friends over at Fanduel.
0:24.0	Happy Tuesday.
0:24.7	Also, happy Veterans Day, everybody.
0:26.7	I know there's a lot of former military members in the Irish Breakdown community and then obviously a lot within the Notre Dame fan base across the country.
0:35.0	So just wanted to take this time to wish everybody a happy Veterans Day and give thanks to those who made the sacrifice to go out and serve, because it is a
0:42.5	choice, and for those that went out and serve and are actively serving. So happy Veterans Day to
0:47.1	everybody from us here at Irish Breakdown. It's very much appreciated more than words can express.
0:54.0	But today, Brianrian we have a really
0:56.0	exciting show coming your way it is also game week for notre dame they're gearing up for what
0:59.6	will be their last regular season ranked opponent and no disrespect to syracuse or stanford
1:05.7	there's literally no way that they become ranked in the college football playoff rankings by
1:10.1	the end of the season so this is a big one. But before we get into that, Brian, there's there's been some,
1:16.1	I guess lack of a better word, craziness going on in college football recently, really ever since
1:21.5	the playoff rankings came out. And what we wanted to do to start off today's show before we dive
1:26.9	into the Notre Dame versus Pitt preview and an overview of Pittsburgh as a team, we wanted to do to start off today's show before we dive into the Notre Dame versus Pitt preview and an overview of Pittsburgh as a team,
1:31.1	we wanted to kind of respond to some of this craziness, man.
1:33.6	And Brian, there's just no way around it.
1:36.1	There's just some fan bases that are just kind of losing their minds.
1:39.5	Yeah, I want to have a, I'm going to do a little calling out today, and then we're going to do a little
1:44.4	history lesson because there's a lot of ignorant fans in college football out there.
1:48.3	There's a lot of ignorant writers and people that allegedly cover the sport of college football
1:53.2	that just really seem to take pride and talking out of their hind parts.
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