Last year, Phil Steele’s annual college football preview had pretty high hopes for the Fighting Irish. He predicted Notre Dame football to be the No. 1 surprise team in the country, along with a New Year’s Six Bowl appearance. They lived up the hype with an undefeated regular season and a College Football Playoff appearance.
I’ve already covered Street & Smith, Lindy’s and Athlon’s thoughts on the 2019 Irish, but what does the most accurate magazine over the last 21 seasons think?
While nobody from South Bend makes the first team as an All-American, Tommy Kraemer makes the second team, Alohi Gilman is on the 3rd and Julian Okwara is on the 4th team.