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Notre Dame Football: Ian Book named one of ESPN’s Top 50 players

We’ve been over this before — when it comes to Notre Dame football — there is only love or hate. If you are reading this, you probably love the Irish. One national outlet who has been stingy when it comes to dishing out love to the Irish in recent years is ESPN.

Notre Dame got a little love from the “Worldwide Leader” this week.

ESPN released its list of the best players in college football for the 2019 season — 50 of them in total. Irish quarterback Ian Book made the list, coming in at No.