Welcome back, everyone to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by our friends over at Fandule. Happy Monday, everybody.

And today with us is Sean Davis. And we are, well, we have our first episode of the RTCF in the off season.

We're going to cover a bunch of different topics today, Sean. We're going to be talking about top targets in the 2027 class.

We're going to be talking about, you know, biggest concerns, biggest reasons for optimism for this 2026 football team.

And then we're going to kind of give a recap of the, I guess, riveting college football playoffs that we saw this past weekend.

But before we dive into all that, Sean, the news just broke that Notre Dame and USC,

that annual rivalry that was rich in tradition, is now coming to an end.

And it likely will until at the very earliest 2030 or if USC makes the playoffs.

We'll see if that happens.

But that's really going to be the next time that they meet up so

Sean lots of cover today happy Monday it's almost Christmas how you doing my man ma'am doing

great if I don't see everyone until the holiday or before the holiday Merry Christmas

Happy holidays to you and your entire family nothing but eternal blessings in favor upon all

well said yep very very well said. And quick reminder for content for us at Irish Breakdown. Here we have the show today. And then obviously, IB Nation Sportsbeat is live. If you haven't got enough of me yet today, I'm also going to be filling in for Vince again tonight on IB Nation Sports Beat. So that'll go live a little bit after five then brian and i are actually going to be back tomorrow at 1 p.m and we're kind of we're going to have a fun little twist on the show coming with the holidays coming up it's going to be a lot of fun so you're not going to want to miss tomorrow at 1 p.m and then we're not going to have shows wednesday Thursday friday of this week with it being Christmas. I know some people are traveling.

I'll be traveling quite a bit. So all the more reason to be a premium message board subscriber

at boards at irishbreakdown.com. That helps you stay in the loop with everything. So Brian also danced

around with the idea of potentially putting out some individual videos on some of those days.

So content will always become your way, but from a live show perspective,

that's what we have going on for you guys this week.

But Sean, let's kind of dive into this whole thing.

And where we're going to start is with the Notre Dame USC rivalry.

Ross Dellenger broke the news from Yahoo Sports and announced that this longstanding

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