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Mar 2024
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Notre Dame Spring FB Preview & Men’s Bas...

The Independent: A Notre Dame Football Podcast
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This week, Matt & Pete get ready for Notre Dame Spring Football as the first open practice of the year is on the horizon plus they are joined by first year Notre Dame Head Basketball Coach Micah Shrewsberry. The conversation also turns to the ever changing College Football landscape and how the playoff changes impact Notre Dame and what all this will do to the sport of College Football. Will Marcus Freeman’s squad make the CFB playoff this year and will the sport break up now that the Big Ten and SEC are forming an advisory committee? 

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