Up next here on the Irish Breakdown podcast,

brought to buy our friends over at Fanduil, we have a really

interesting conversation up. And we've been asked really over, throughout the offseason, we got

asked this last year about just the tiers of college football and where Notre Dame falls in

that. And so what we did is yesterday, actually after the show, we sat down and talked about

what different tiers there were in college football, how many there were.

We defined them.

And then we started ranking teams within those tiers, putting teams, sorting them.

And full disclosure here, guys, we're talking about like the top notable teams in the country.

We didn't sit down after the show and filter out all 138 FBS teams in all of college football into different tiers because that would take forever.

And so this is a really fun conversation and one that took a lot of discussion to sit down and filter out.

And half of the discussion was just defining what the tiers were.

Yeah, like what do they even mean?

And so, Trev, we'll just go, we'll go one to three.

We'll start off with the top and explain why they're the top and just kind of dive

to that way.

So tier one, let me pull up our text thread, Trev, because I have it in our text thread that I sent it to that way. So tier one, let me pull up our text thread, because I have it in our text

thread that I sent it to you yesterday. So tier one is basically teams that have shown a consistent

ability to complete, compete for championship or have been dominant under the current staff,

even if it's for a short of period time. So that proven track record of playing for championships

is the key.

And winning a championship recently, if it's under the same leadership,

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