Notre Dame's New Defensive Assistants + A Review of the 2025 FBS Coaching Hires

Jessica Smetana joins for a supersized episode. First, we run through the news on Aaron Henry and Brian Jean-Mary reportedly being added to the Fighting Irish staff, Notre Dame's relationship with the ACC and a College Football Playoff schedule that has somehow gotten worse. Then (25:45) a pivot to discussing every single new head coaching hire in FBS, starting with the Big Ten and ending with UConn. Included: Questions for Sparty, strange goings-on at Utah, some fun moves by the Big XII, the SEC raiding the AAC, "The Americans," a few small morning beers, Stanford's curious hire, MAC scandals and high hopes for the new faces in the new Pac-12. Sign up for the newsletter and/or browse the merch here:

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Notre Dame's New Defensive Assistants + A Review of the 2025 FBS Coaching Hires is an episode from Rakes Report: A Notre Dame podcast by Christopher Wilson.

This episode is 01:49:16 long.

This episode was published on Feb 4, 2026.

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