Notre Dame Is A Top-Three Or Four Team
Bill Connelly
"I was annoyed when everybody picked up on Notre Dame because I was hoping, because I realized real quickly, 'Oh man, I'm going to be so high on Notre Dame next year. My national champ.' And then they also lost their running backs. So therefore, I thought, maybe, you know, that would scare people off. And that could be my team. No, they're clearly going to be like a top three or four team."
Context
Bill placing Notre Dame in the top three or four nationally. The roster + coaching staff stability is the load-bearing argument. CJ Carr is "assumed" — the QB development question has shifted from "can he play" to "how high is the ceiling." Will Black at LT and the freshman/sophomore additions to the DL alleviate prior concerns. Strong returning production along the line plus new transfers covering interior gaps.
The take pairs with the show's general read on Notre Dame as a stable top-tier program — but Bill goes a step further than the show, naming top-three-or-four explicitly.
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- 2026-04-30 ACC Variance Machine — Notre Dame as the structural opposite (clarity, not variance)