Phil Steele's annual preseason magazine, the self-proclaimed "most accurate magazine over the last 36 years," released its preseason All-American teams earlier this week. Four Notre Dame football players made the team, with Leonard Moore and Jeremiyah Love on the first team and Drayk Bowen and Malachi Fields on the fourth team.
Steele is one of the few people who even bothers with a fourth team All-American list, but perhaps that's why he manages to be so accurate. He looks deeply at every school and every position and doesn't take anything for granted.
Love and Moore being on the first team is hardly a surprise.