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2021 Preseason Notre Dame Fighting Irish Rankings

Main Poll Voters

User Rank Reason
Xtremeloco 2 This is my end of season poll last year. They earned these spots last year and get them to start the season this year. 
Darth_Ra 4 ARR 18.33
Acm0028 5
BosskOnASegway 5
eSpiritCorpse 5 0.9189
kdcoltred 5
owlalwaysloveyew 5
AllHawkeyesGoToHell 6
AlphaH4wk 6
bgr308 6
bwburke94 6
CFBHurts 6
Fmeson 6
galacticdude7 6
GilBrandt 6
Hey_Its_Roomie 6
JCiLee 6
jnoobs13 6
JoshDaws 6
King-Clover 6
KommanderKeen-a42 6 Obviously biased, but Coach Kelly has proved his near-lock for the HoF someday, has ND at the top of college football, and they bring in top 12 talent. I also look at their schedule and ask "show me the exact loss". Yes, tough road, but favored in each one by itself.
lillipup03 6
nbingham196 6 11-1 (Loss to Wisconsin)
Pikachu1989 6
plannedsickdays 6
safariari 6
tallg8tor 6
ToeInDigDeep 6 Cain Madden and Kyle Hamilton will help lead a Notre Dame team that could go undefeated again, if they survive my #3 team
Zloggt 6
arrowfan624 7
cajunaggie08 7
Charlemagne42 7 ND has two matchups scheduled against teams in my pre-season top 10, both ranked below them. They miss Clemson this season. USC, though ranked by many, I believe is hugely overrated - ND should beat them handily and propel themselves further up the polls (maybe further than they belong... again). Can they make it back to the playoffs?
cmdrcaboose2 7
CollegeGolf69 7
DarkLegend64 7 They'll take down Cinci but will still end up losing 2 regular season games and fail to get back to the playoff.
darkra01 7
doggo816 7
e8odie 7
eclectic_tastes 7
GeauxAllDay 7
jchurch8073 7
Johnnycockseed 7
Mario_Speedwagon 7
mellolizard 7
monkeymatt1836 7
Nathanael-Greene 7
ndbroski 7
NotSoSuperNerd 7 I'm not really sure what to think of Notre Dame yet, but they have the talent to make a playoff case.
NyquillusDillwad20 7
Pieisgood186 7
stesser 7
TaylorLeprechaun 7
tmothy07 7
turkishguy 7
typicaliconoclast 7
vanburen1845 7
woakley 7 Some people think that ND is almost always overrated, but they are consistently top contenders, and they once again bring in a top recruiting class. Question mark at the QB position, where they lose an experienced player, but Brian Kelly has shown that he can keep this team competitive. 
12panther 8
3RDnKING 8
andrewthestudent 8
Blooblod 8
CambodianDrywall 8
Cassiyus 8
DataDrivenPirate 8
djowen68 8 Coaching, talent
dogwoodmaple 8
Drexlore 8
Feral_Squirrel 8
fourpinz8 8
GenialGiant 8
HelioOne 8
Hobbes_121 8
hypercube42342 8
JamesBCrazy 8
JustAManAndHisLaptop 8
LeWoofle 8
Longvols 8
MrTheSpork 8
one98d 8
PHubbs 8
RegulatorRWF 8
RiffRamBahZoo 8
RobertNeyland 8
scronko 8
tdeff19 8
Texasagsman 8
thegreendalegelf 8
thexraptor 8
thomasosu 8
UNC_Samurai 8
Wurst_Law 8
_fastball 9
admiraltarkin 9
Bank_Gothic 9
BigBoutros 9
BUSean 9
chrisb19 9
crownebeach 9 I am higher on Notre Dame than others -- it's not that I don't see the attrition issues, but there just aren't a lot of teams out there that are primed to capitalize and move above them. Their coordinators are good, Kyren Williams and Kyle Hamilton are great, and their recruiting last year was first-class. 
Dropbackandpunt 9
halldaylong 9
Lex_Ludorum 9
malowry0124 9
nemoran 9
Omegaus492 9
Striker743 9
tabelz 9
TDenverFan 9
WarEagle9 9
wesman212 9
zacheiny 9
52hoova 10
badgers4194 10
BamaPride95 10
CockADoodleBOOM 10
GatorRich 10
igloo27 10
jmac_21 10
not_folie 10
physedka 10
practicallybert 10
PumpSmash 10
RollWarTideEagle 10
scrotes_magotes 10
SCRx 10
seaotter2 10
Seneca_Was_In 10
soonerfreak 10
TheZachster 10
ucieaters33 10
BallSoHerd 11
BlueSCar 11 +16.0
Chucky1539 11
corundum9 11
dasani3x 11
falconlover79 11
fireinvestigator113 11
Frognosticator 11
GoBeaversOSU 11
Hackasizlak 11
huskerfan4life520 11
Jakesnake42 11 ND only gets this high due to past seasons cause they lost a *ton* this season and if this ends up being my worse pick I won't be remotely surprised but they've earned some respect
jchall3 11
noahthearc 11
Red261 11
steelcitygator 11 The biggest thing is the turnover, bottom 5 returning production.  While they recruit well, I wouldn't consider it in automatic reload territory.  Certainly Brian Kelly has earned some leeway but I think their rebuilding year is closer to 15-20 than top 10.
Techwid 11
TopGoose 11
VerySeriousBanana 11
wameron 11
crimsonlaw 12
Daigotsu 12
jjjoebox 12
Maladroit44 12
Mr_Brews 12
owl_man 12
ShamusJohnson13 12
tauzeta 12
A-Stu-Ute 13
creative_penguin 13
dabul-master 13
HUSKEROYAL 13
justsaynotoreddit 13
Rakarei 13
RavenclawWiz816 13
sasmith2015 13
Sometimeswelose 13
THECrew42 13
TheReformedBadger 13
dicky_________seamus 14
GeauxTri 14
JeromesNiece 14
Joester09 14
Staind075 14
tdoger 14
Blazeth 15
Ch-i-ef 15
Conglossian 15
coogs35 15 They lose Book and a lot of other talent. I expect a step down from last season for the Irish
Greflingorax 15
joebob431 15
Our-Gardian-Angel 15
surreptitioussloth 15
TimeBroken 15
bretticus33 16
dan4223 16
Inkblot9 16
No11223456 16
311polo 17
Cars-and-Coffee 17
Helifino 17
I_am_bot_beep_boop 17
relax_on_the_mat 17
laminak 20

Provisional Poll Voters

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