Notre Dame is in the Top 10 on yet another preseason Top 25 list
Notre Dame is in the Top 10 on yet another preseason Top 25 list Fighting Irish sit behind teams like Georgia and Ohio State.
The spring preseason Top 25s keep coming, and Notre Dame keeps being listed in top 10s, if not top 5s.
The latest spring preseason Top 25 comes from On3 Sports' Ari Wasserman, and he has the Fighting Irish at No. 7.
He writes that the Irish "will have the best offensive line in college football", and he also praises the defense and predicts a breakout year for Jaden Greathouse.
Still, the Irish don't crack the Top 5. Those teams are Penn State, Texas, Clemson, Ohio State and LSU. Wasserman has Georgia at No. 6.
Rounding out his Top 10 are Alabama, Oregon and Illinois.
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