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Yesterday we had our weekly Notre Dame Football Mailbag. Another show filled with a lot of great questions, and we hope the answers matched! It was a long show that we broke into three parts. Here is part three.

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Yesterday we had our weekly Notre Dame Football Mailbag. Another show filled with a lot of great questions, and we hope the answers matched! It was a long show that we broke into three parts. Here is part two.

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Yesterday we had our weekly Notre Dame Football Mailbag. Another show filled with a lot of great questions, and we hope the answers matched! It was a long show that we broke into three parts. Here is part one.

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During the Friday Mailbag we were asked about a 2025 "Dream Class" for Notre Dame. We went position by position and made our picks. Of course it started with quarterback Deuce Knight.

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Which are you more concerned about right now: Notre Dame losing to Navy in the season opener or a sea of red inside Notre Dame Stadium when Ohio State visits on September 23rd? That's what we start today's show discussing.

Other topics include:

* Fan Duel Over/Unders for Sam Hartman this season are 26.5 touchdown passes and 2,950.5 passing yards. Will he go over or under?

* USC's Caleb Williams has an over/under of 3,450.5 and Drake Maye of North Carolina has an over/under of 3,000.5 yards. Who are we more confident to go over?

* Maye also has a touchdown pass over/under of 27.5...which means his TD total is only one more than Sam Hartman and his yardage total is only 50 more yards than Hartman and they both have +1800 Heisman odds...yet Maye is considered the No. 2 QB prospect in next year’s draft and Hartman is an afterthought. What do we make of that?

* Interesting chart we saw on Twitter...last season 44% of Notre Dame’s receiving yards were made BEFORE the catch...while 71% of Wake Forest’s yards were before the catch. What do you think it means?

* Fill-in the blank...There are 50 days to go until the Irish and Navy open the season in Dublin. Rocco Spindler wears No. 50 and this season is BLANK for Spindler.

* In the wake of several NFL players being suspended for inappropriate gambling a fairly prominent NFL pundit says players should be allowed to bet on their team to win. I won’t tell you who the guy is to avoid prejudicing you. But do you Buy or Sell players being allowed to put a wager on their team to win a game and nothing else?

* Joey Chestnut has won eight straight hot dog eating contests. Who’s the all-time equivalent of Chestnut in each sport (players not coaches)?

* Here’s what Eagles QB Jalen Hurts had to say about Dak Prescott:

“He’s a hell of an athlete. A great leader of men on and off the field. It’s really the media who wants to paint him as a villain. I model my game off him, what he’s doing is special, by far the best QB in the NFC. Arguably a top 5 QB now.”

Our thoughts on Hurts saying the media paints Prescott as a villain.

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We start Rapid Fire by keeping with the main theme of the show and predict where we think Notre Dame's TV and apparel contracts will be in 2026. 

Other topics include:

* Over/Under one-half Heisman Trophy finalists for the Fighting Irish in the next three seasons.

* What about facilities expansion? 

* Do you Buy or Sell that Notre Dame will have at least one top 10 pick in the NFL draft in the next three years?

* Which number will be greater in the next three years: Notre Dame men’s basketball NCAA Tournament appearances or ND women’s Final Fours?

* Fill-in the blank: The Power 5 conference that will look the most different three years from now is BLANK. 

* Instagram just launched a Twitter counterpart called Threads yesterday and Jack Dorsey, who is the former owner of Twitter, is close to launching his own new platform called Blue Sky. In three years which of the three do you think more people will be using?

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Let's say you were to slip into a coma tomorrow and wake up exactly three years from now. What has transpired for Marcus Freeman and Notre Dame football? That's what Irish Breakdown is discussing on today's show. We look at things like:

*How many College Football Playoff appearances Notre Dame will have in the next three years?

*How many CFP wins?

*Quarterback development

*NFL Draft picks

*How many 5-star recruits?

*Marcus Freeman's future

We cover all that and more on today's show!

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There are 10 non-conference games that could have a major impact on the race for playoff spots in the 2023 season. I break down those 10 games and why they matter, either for the individual teams in those games or for the conference they are a part of.

Here are the games discussed:

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Notre Dame's defensive staff is catching a lot of flak for its recruiting success, or lack there of in certain instances. To a degree it is warranted, but in other areas it is not. Part two of the latest Midweek Rundown focuses on the state of defensive recruiting for the Irish.

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It has been 34 seasons since Notre Dame won a national championship. Has the time of Notre Dame being a powerhouse capable of winning titles passed? That was the first topic discussed in the Midweek Mailbag. I explain the excuses and reasons why some say no, they can't, and I discuss why the answer is actually yes.

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