Irish Breakdown gets you ready for this Saturday's Notre Dame vs Virginia football game. We discuss Senior Day for the Fighting Irish (is it overrated), which ND player should be the last to come out of the tunnel against the Cavaliers, our confidence that the Irish will have another home game this season in the College Football Playoffs, the return of former Irish running back/receiver Chris Tyree, a look at Virginia and more. 

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Bryan from Irish Breakdown and Bill Bender from Sporting News preview the biggest week 12 games. They’ll talk most interesting games, upset alert games and the biggest game of the weekend, which is Tennessee at Georgia. They also talk Tulane vs Navy, Nebraska vs USC, LSU vs Florida, BYU vs Kansas, Utah vs Colorado.

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The Irish Breakdown team makes their predictions for the matchup between Notre Dame and Virginia.

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The Irish Breakdown team dives into the keys to success for the Notre Dame defense in the matchup against Virginia.

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The Irish Breakdown team dives into the keys to success for the Notre Dame offense in the matchup against Virginia.

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Today's Rapid Fire topics include:

* Does Jesse hate Riley Leonard after leaving the Notre Dame quarterback off his list of top five current Irish players?

* Is there one team ranked ahead of Notre Dame this week that you are most convinced the Irish should be ranked ahead of?

* What team would you want to avoid in the playoffs if you’re Notre Dame?

* Fill-in the blank...Yesterday was college basketball signing day, and it’s BLANK that Micah Shrewsberry signed a nearly consensus top five recruiting class that is the highest rated Notre Dame class in the modern recruiting era.

* For the second recruiting cycle in a row, Niele Ivey signed just one player but she’s a good one - five star forward Leah Macy. Buy or Sell the Irish signing just one player considering the players they'll lose after this season?

* Kansas plays BYU this week and Colorado next week. On a scale of 1 to 10...What’s your confidence the Jayhawks will win one of those games?

* Fill-in the blank...Deion Sanders and Colorado going 7-2 while winning six of their last seven games is BLANK.

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Irish Breakdown answers subscriber submitted "We In or We Out" questions as well. Some of today's topics include:

* We In or We Out: Coach Al Golden and Coach Mike Mickens are both on ND staff for the 2025 season?

* In or Out: After watching Notre Dame come out rusty from a bye, the Top 4 seeds will experience this in the playoffs after sitting for 3+ weeks and going up against teams that played the week prior.

* In or Out: We will see Mike Denbrock employ more 21 Personnel the last three games of the regular season?

* In or Out: We will see Denbrock employ more 21 Personnel in the playoffs?

* We in or We out: Now that Riley Leonard has discovered that Mitchell Evans is back to full health and up to his old tricks, and that The Great One can take you to the end zone single-handedly if Mr. Leonard continues to throw to Him (2 catches for 30 yards on a 36-yard drive and 2 catches plus a PI for 45 yards on a 65-yard drive, both ending in TDs), Mr. Leonard will continue to throw to them. The added offense will present additional complexity for opposing defenses, elevating the offense to Championship-grade.

* The senior day ceremony is cool, because it’s fun to cheer for the seniors individually and they have a nice moment, but in a way it’s also anticlimactic because they don’t actually get to run out of the tunnel “one last time” together with their teammates. We in or we out?

* Notre dame needs to win a championship before they start getting the respect they truly deserve from all media outlets. In or Out?

* ND will lose both Mickens and RB coach Deland McCullough this offseason. We in or We out?

* In or Out: Ohio State gets left out of the playoffs if they lose again.

* Virginia’s QB has a noodle arm and tends to throw a few interceptions from time to time, are you in or out on the over bet if it was set at 2.5 for Notre Dame’s total number of interceptions?

* Michigan will become the first team in history not to qualify for a bowl game following an NC championship season. In or Out?

* The O-Line continues to quietly grow these last few games of the season until we realize that they aren’t really making any major mistakes and have become quite consistent. We in or we out?

* Notre Dame will out score their next 3 opponents 110 to 40. We in or We out?

* We in/ We out? Since each week brings chaos to the CFP, this week’s chaos will be provided by Kansas, and San Jose St.

* In or Out: The coaching carousel that occurs after the final game will have a major impact on playoff teams.

* More!

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Irish Breakdown has comments from Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman on today's show. Freeman talks improvement, what the interior defensive line will look like this week without Howard Cross, Benjamin Morrison's recovery, Jack Kiser, and more.

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Bryan and Trevor discuss the College Football Playoff rankings and break down the narratives about the rankings. We discuss what the committee got right and what it got wrong.

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Bryan and Trevor discuss where Notre Dame should rank in the College Football Playoff and they debunk several narratives about the Irish.

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