Rapid Fire: Riley Leonard, College Station Heat, Howard Cross, Xavier Watts, Harry Hiestand

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Today's Rapid Fire topics include:

* Fill-in the blank...It’s BLANK that we haven’t seen more of Riley Leonard in Notre Dame’s social media practice highlight videos.

* Fill-in the blank...All the talk about the heat in College Station, Texas is BLANK.

* Howard Cross III, Benjamin Morrison and Xavier Watts have all been named to the 2024 Chuck Bednarik Award Watch List. The award goes to the nation’s top defensive player. Which of those three has the best chance to win the award?

* From a listener: Since Analysts can coach on the field now, do you Buy or Sell that Notre Dame should do whatever it takes to bring Harry Hiestand in on a limited role/ part time analyst to coach up the younger players.

* Longtime college football writer Ralph Russo of the Associate Press looked at the last 10 years of preseason rankings to predict who will actually make it into this year’s 12-team College Football Playoff. The last 10 years say this:

*4 of the 5 teams in the preseason AP top 5 will make it

*2 teams ranked 6 through 10 will make it

*One team ranked between 21 and 25 will make it

*And three unranked teams will make it

-We predict who will make it into this year’s 12-team CFP.

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