I.B.Nation. Welcome back to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast.

That's Trevor Troberts. I'm Brian Driscoll, and I'm pretty fired up today.

So I'm ready to dive right into our topics today. We have got some great, great topics for y'all today.

We are going to talk. Well, our show was originally just going to be focusing on the

sophomore class. We told y'all that we had sort of a special show just for the sophomore class.

That's why we kept leaving them out of all these different topics with the exception of Leonard

Moore because he was too good to leave out of the star, the star player category. Not good enough to

leave off of the key returning players by ESPN, but we had to talk

about them in the star portion of our show, but we're going to talk a lot about the sophomore

class and how important it is to this season, to the point where I would say this team can't

reach their full potential if this class doesn't have a big year. And we'll dive into the reasons

for that. And then we'll talk about specific players and kind of our expectations for those guys this

season and have some fun with that. But that was originally going to be our entire topic.

And we're still going to obviously talk about that. We're not taking anything away from

that conversation. But yesterday, news broke that USC might be leaving the Notre Dame rivalry.

Have you heard this, Trevor?

Did you know that this was a thing?

Like, have you heard this?

Like, wow, I had no idea that USC was looking to duck out of this rivalry.

And I don't understand why the national media is all of a sudden talking about this topic.

And so it was just, that kind of annoyed me. And, you know, Pat 40 wrote sudden talking about this topic. And so it was just that kind of annoyed me.

And, you know, Pat 40 wrote an article about it yesterday. And, you know, it was a fair

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