November 5, 2025 • 25 mins
Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football vs Navy preview and a little College Football Playoff rankings talk, first look at CFP.
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It's the moment you didn't know you're waiting for.
He is Carter, he's Chad, and this is the.
Irish 365 podcast welcome into the Irish 365 podcast.
We got a Navy preview Navy threestraight kind of rivalry weeks.
Obviously a buy in between, but an interesting part of the
season, right? I mean, Boston College, we
haven't played in the wild like don't play every year.
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I've seen Navy we play every year USC we play every year for
now right so yeah, I currently yeah.
So an interesting dynamic for Notre Dame here 3 rivalry games.
Obviously me and you love this game.
I know there's some people out on social that hate it.
I got my 100 Year 4 Horsemen sweatshirt on from our attempt
our game last year at Yankee Stadium.
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One of my favorites last year. Yeah, lot, lot before the game
that went on, but just a lot of one of my favorite games, yeah.
As someone who pays attention togame day OPS, I'm sure it drove
you nuts, but that's a whole nother story.
The game itself was phenomenal, The atmosphere was phenomenal,
the crowd was phenomenal. Getting it out of the stadium,
not so well, but that's again, you just I won't digress.
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So yeah, we I love Navy. I know a lot of people are like,
why do we play Navy? Why do we play Navy?
I one is I respect the hell out of the Navy Academy and the the
military service side of it. What those kids are doing, the
commitment they've made to our country and and their effort.
Like very few kids are coming out of the Naval Academy going
to the NFL. Like just that ain't happening.
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But just then what what Navy means to Notre Dame and what
Notre Dame means to Navy and that whole side.
I won't go into that. We've covered that and there's
plenty of places to cover nauseam.
If you want me to give a dissertation, hit us up on DMS
and social and I'll I'll record something special and send it to
you directly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'll even personalize it like anautographed.
I'll put your name. In there, it's a cameo, right?
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I'd like a cameo. Yeah, we're not.
We're not cameo level yet, but I'll do it for free if you
really want. If you really want me to give
you all the reasons why we should play.
And he'll enjoy it. And yeah, I should just record
it for my own benefit, right? So, yeah, I love the Navy game.
It's a challenging game, right? Because no one runs the triple
option better. And Navy's got a quarterback
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that's a. That's a.
Throwing like Arvic. I mean, dude, legitimately, I've
seen this Heisman Trophy candidate.
This could be a Heisman game. Like, what are we go?
Are we going Blake? Are we going Jeremiah Love?
Right? Like, one of these guys is going
to be eliminated this week with a loss, which is an interesting,
interesting thing, right? Yeah, and Navy was probably on
the precipice of being ranked had it not been for the North
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Texas long. Which North Texas was by far
their toughest matchup of the year so far.
So, yeah, a lot of people are saying this Navy team is not
that great. I think.
I think last week was a sleeper game.
You know, they were looking forward to the Irish so.
Yeah, they trap game for them trap game.
We we both had a trap game. And I saw this on social and I,
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I hadn't thought about it and, but interesting is there was
some theory going out there thatNotre Dame was taking the bye
week and focusing on prepping for a top 25 matchup Navy team
and the difficulty of, of how todefend the triple option.
Al Golden knew it cold. And you, you also had Jack
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Kaiser who ran triple option in high school, like leading a
defensive charge and making surepeople in the right spot.
We don't have that same combination.
So we've, we've owned Navy the last couple years and well
defended them. So was Marcus Freeman taking
time and focusing on Navy? I'm hoping that that theory is
true. So if that was the case, it
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would make sense that the team was looking past Boston College,
letting their guard down a little bit, focusing on Navy and
if and you know, because you want to have a big A1 in seven,
Boston College wasn't a threat to beating us.
Like I just they just weren't. But they gave it one hell of an
effort, right? So were we focused on guarding
the triple option and the discipline?
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Because it's all about discipline and protecting
yourself against the triple option.
And we played Army last year at Yankees, damn, didn't we?
Yeah, we played. Army, it was Navy.
It was in New York at MetLife, that's on.
It was MetLife. I was thinking different games.
It makes it difficult when they were both in the.
New, but they're both triple option teams.
Both triple option, but the thing that I.
Won. This Navy team was ranked last
year when we played that and hadan uncharacteristic 6 turnovers.
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Yeah at MetLife, which is just insane.
Like we can't. Like we blew the doors off them
with six turnovers like and theywere just, we weren't even
forced in some of them. Muff punts like yeah, so there
was a couple of defensive. Plays we forced three, I think,
but yeah, there was there was three or three that were like,
that's not happening very often for Navy.
What you don't typically see from service Academy is
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undisciplined football. They're not.
Yeah, they don't generally beat themselves.
And to some degree, they and. It's going to be very
interesting this week when we talk.
We've talked about officiating alot this year, like bad for
Notre Dame and other teams, but Navy doesn't like is not a team
that comes in and penalizes likethis.
So it's going to be interesting this week about the refs that
you are we going to see a lot offlags on Navy or is it going to
stay pretty pretty non yeah, this is a team that it's going
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to run the triple option like you said, and we talked about
this a lot last week and we'll get into it more later.
But are they going to dominate the time of possession right?
Like this is a team that I mean,if we're talking about their
keys to victory, right, if that's what we're going to get
into navy's going to slow this game down.
They're, I'm not going to say they're going to watch the
Boston College film. That was their plan before the
Boston College game, right? Reinforced during the Boston
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College game. If they if they watch game tape
from last week, like what did Boston College do?
Because they're not going to outscore you.
Navy's not going to go A&M. 40. 142 right.
They're not going to Miami us. They're they're going to have to
do something very similar to what Boston College did run the
play clock down, drain and just 3 yards in a cloud of dust.
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Yeah, long sustained drives weardown our defense and keep our
offense off the field. Yeah.
And yeah, if you're Notre Dame, I mean, I think the thing's got
to be, can we keep this Navy? The key is person second down.
Yeah, I that's the best way to put it.
You got to keep Navy in 3rd and four longer.
Like they can't be in 3rd and 3rd and three.
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In short, like they're gonna, they're gonna probably pick that
up. I'd say almost third and five,
yeah. You you want them to be third
and five? Yeah.
They've got an experienced quarterback like we've
mentioned, like he he's probably, he's not going to win
the Heisman, but he's in the conversation like he's put up
some numbers. Obviously last week hurt him a
little bit. But this is a team that we we
got to figure out how to keep off the field.
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And that's going to be interesting for the Notre Dame
offense. Like I feel like we've been when
we've scored, we've scored quick.
So what's it going to be this week?
Are we going to take these long drives and get down to the red
zone and punch it in finally, orwe're going to have to score
from 50 yards out? Yeah, See, that's that's going
to be the interesting part of this.
And I think that's where the what is Denbrot going to do from
a strategy standpoint? I mean, you want to be North
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Texas, you want to go, you know,20 yards of play and score in
three plays, right? Go 80 yards in 4 plays kind of a
thing. I think he's going to want to
because that opportunity to be there, obviously North Texas
showed you can get big chunk plays and you can score and
we're going to have. North Texas over 234 yards there
and 190 rushing. Like we're going to see that the
North Texas game is going to be a template for us.
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What we want to do offensively, we should pick up cues from
that, But so I, but the, the other side of that is you don't
want to score too fast because of Navy is sustaining long
drives and bring out your defense and then you're turning
around and scoring quickly. Your, you know, your defensive
depths going to come into question at some point, you
know, so I, I think that's goingto be interesting.
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But if we can, if we can stop Navy early, score early and then
force Navy to go off schedule and try and not slow the game
down and try and, you know, go into a high, more high, high
tempo, high scoring offense. That is got to be kind of key
for us. I mean, we got to score fast
early and then maybe slow it down late.
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So if we can get up to three touchdowns in the first half,
then we can slow it down a little bit, give our defense
some rest, keep them fresh, optimize it.
If we don't do that and we let Navy control the clock and and
and time a possession and slow the game down the way they
they'd like to and keep it closeto the fourth quarter and
hopefully, you know, out attrition us because we're wore
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down and they're still fresh. I mean, our guys, our guys are
physically fit, but I don't knowthat we're Navy Academy, you
know, practice plus PT plus whatever else they do kind of a
fit. So I, I, I think that's the
challenge for us. I mean, we're going to have the
size advantage. We're going to have the weight
advantage. I mean, we're going to have
better athletes. I feel good defensively.
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Like I, I think about Sneed. I think about, you know, Kay
Johnson, Grayton, Aubrey, Aubreyor Asbury coming up to the line,
Drake Bowen, like KVA, like Kingston.
Feels so good about our corners and our secondary making so much
progress and we've talked about this, but can they stay
undisciplined for that one pass play, right?
Kante Johnson, who's not played against this triple option stay
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for that one fake. That's because you know what's?
Going to happen. Right, because it's going to
happen where he's going to come up the field or someone's going
to come up and someone's going to be wide open.
Like can we avoid that? Because that's what Navy's
trying to do, right? They're going to they're going
to burn you once. They're going to, they're going
to expect us to get nine in the box.
And and here's the thing, right?I don't think Navy has a burner
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in the slot or in the wide receiver that's going to that's
going to outrun one of our corners.
So our corners are going to be left to play man coverage, which
we're comfortable in, right? Give me, give me Leonard, more
man coverage against the best Navy receiver.
I'm OK with that. So, yeah, it's just that
discipline, right? If you see that tight end or you
see that, you know, slot guy, like you got to hold your
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position, hold, hold your assignment.
If we play discipline football, we'll be fine.
But we got some young guys on the defense.
We don't have that leadership, you know, 27th year senior
Kaiser that, you know, to keep people in check.
So how much lesson did Drake Bowen learn?
How well does he know that? I think Drake Bowen ran triple
option in high school. Adrian didn't run triple option.
OK I know Kaiser did a a pioneerso I wasn't sure if Bowen did
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it. Adrian, I know he was a full
back so like. He no, I think he just.
Was he straight tailback? Yeah, ran people over back.
He was, he was, he was a he was Jerome Bettis.
He was back body playing tailback just looking for
contact fun to watch. But yeah, so I so that's,
that'll be the interesting part of it for us.
Just but on defense, let's get the keys victory for Notre Dame.
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What comes to mind is offense scores 35 points.
Yeah. Like, that feels like if you
scored 35, you, you win this game by 14, like, like 28.
I don't feel crazy comfortable with 'cause like, you can this
Navy team can hold around, but they're done.
Gets to 35 points, which doesn'tfeel like a lot for this
offense, but it's been struggling.
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Yeah, we we were putting up 40 points a game and then we
didn't. Yeah.
So which is interesting on. So that's my kind of key, which
is a weird key victory, but like, we got to score.
Yeah, score quick, score early. Yeah, and can't win the turnover
battle. Like maybe he's going to get one
random one. Like it feels like they do, like
they'll the force of fumble can Price hold onto the ball because
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he's had a little bit of a fumble bug.
And it's kind of one of those things where, you know, he's a
good back, but is it in his headat this point?
Yeah, and. Jeremiah Love Fumble 1.
Did he fumble? Not a bounce.
We didn't turn it over, but he fumble one out of bounce and he
fumble one earlier this season. I think he recovered.
So yeah, I mean, yeah, we, we. Clean that up and chance of
rain. I believe Saturday night in
South Bend that. Was like 20%.
Yeah, I was just saying I know there's a chance of rain this
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weekend. So yeah, that'll play a factor.
Could play a factor into it. Not as much as USC, but there's
a chance, yeah. So what what other keys you got
for Notre Dame here this weekend?
I, I think it's, it's pretty straightforward, right?
Like what we just said, discipline on defense, keep them
in 3rd and long offensively, score early and score quick, get
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the lead and then slow it down. You know, and then because
you're not going to get mistakesout of Navy, you got to force
Navy out of their their schedule, out of their game plan
where they're trying to make bigplays because they they're down
14 points. They have to do something 14
might. Not even be enough.
It's sometimes got to be 2128 before they even drive.
But if you. Can get up 1421 points and get
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them to where they go out of thetriple option and slowing the
game down because they try to hurry things up.
That that plays into our favor and that's where we want to get
to. And we got the sooner we can get
there, the earlier we get there in the game, the better because
our defense will still be fresh and they won't be wore down.
And you know, you go into a couple of eight minute drives of
Navy and our guys are on the field and we score quick and
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then they're back on the field more trading touchdowns and it's
2121, but our guys are wore out.I don't feel good about that.
So but I'm hoping we'll I'm hoping we'll be able to do that.
I think I think that'd be the game plan if I was coming into
schedule. 100% so nobody opens up his 26 1/2 point favorites
over under that 56 1/2, you're getting the score predictions.
What are you thinking? Man, you know, I'm thinking and
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I want to go like we cover, right?
Because if you if 56 is the overunder 26 point favorite.
So that's that's like saying like 282028 like or I guess
1420. No, wait, 1435 something like
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that. Yeah, I feel like here, here's
where I'm at. I feel like we're going to,
we're going to have some, I, I don't feel like we're past the
special teams kicking woes. So are we going to go for two?
Are we going to do some things like that?
So my score prediction, I'm feeling like 17.
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I think Navy gets 2 scores and atouchdown or a field goal.
I'm thinking like 17. I think Notre Dame is going to
have some wonky weird score like1736 or something like that.
We're in the ballpark. Yeah, I'm going 3514.
I'm with you. I think maybe gets 2 touchdowns.
And yeah, I have us not covering.
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I don't think we cover. Which is normally good for the
Irish. If both of us are on, we're not
covering. Usually it's 99 to nothing.
No, you, you just said it. So now we're going to be right,
which we normally aren't, so. But yeah, 3514, this is a good
Navy team and yeah, can the Irish, I think I'm going to
doubt until we can they prove uswrong?
Can they punch the ball in the end zone?
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They've moved the ball. Can we?
Can we start finishing drives? Yeah, and, and physically we're
going to have bigger, more athletic guys.
But discipline wise that is it. It's going to be a tough
challenge to get in that red zone and have to the compact
field short yardage plays the Navy discipline.
So we got to right those wrongs if we're going to write them.
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And this is, this is the week wehave to write them.
I'm, I still think it's going tobe a couple of our scores if we
get, if we got 5 touchdowns, I'mthinking two or three of them
are going to be 20 plus yard touchdowns, long passes, long
runs. You know Jeremiah loved loves 90
yard runs and priced those two. CJ Carr passing yards this week.
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He's kind of what I'm thinking of, some bets.
Got what I'm going to mess with?I feel like, I feel like a
special teams touchdown's comingtoo.
Punt return, check return, I I feel like we're going to get a
special teams touchdown. Like or defensive special team,
Yeah, hit one of those couple. Weeks, maybe a defensive score.
Yeah, all. Right.
So I think the moment everyone'sbeen waiting for right here,
right? Contest.
Contest. So we've talked a lot about this
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one, but we're we got to start this off so we can get an
official clip here out on the old X.
So here we go. If you'd like to win two tickets
to Notre Dame for Syracuse, you've got two chances left.
All you have to do is be following us on the X and you
have to comment under this post and our contest this week is
going to be the Notre Dame time of possession.
Minutes and seconds. Minutes and seconds the closest
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person to that will win an Irish365 T-shirt automatically and be
entered to win two Nerd Inver Syracuse draw.
And like I said, only two chances left to get into that
draw. Yeah, 'cause this is a game
where we could have a huge deficit in time of possession
and still win. But the higher our time of
possession goes, the more confident I feel in that win.
Yep. So yeah, that's obviously if you
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don't know, it's got to be between 000 and 6060 minutes,
right? Can't.
Well, maybe if you think of overtime, but that would be.
Crazy. Yeah.
I don't know how time possessionworks in the old overtime, but
yeah. So yeah, it's gotta be between 0
minutes and 60 minutes. I think it's gonna be a fun one,
though. I mean, this, this, this
feature. I see what people think.
So if your guess is 30 minutes, then put 30 colon 00.
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Yep, your guess is 31 minutes 30seconds 31 colon 30, right?
There's a lot of possibilities out there.
This Navy team has controlled the ball.
Notre Dame obviously did not control the ball against the
Boston College team last week, so it'll be interesting what
happened here. We lost time of possession
against Boston College. Yep.
So we're guessing the Notre Dametime of possession this week.
I think that's the key stat for us.
Yep, time of possession. All right, well, so there's our
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contest. We've hit the Navy preview.
Sounds like we got to get into alittle bit the Kochwell playoff
because Notre Dame happens to bea little somewhat making
everyone talk, right? Shocker.
We were going to bring controversy.
No matter what. Whether we're in or out, and I
love where we're in and I, and Ithink this is kind of the, as I
thought about it last night and Notre Dame haters got all the
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reason in the world to throw shade at Notre Dame because they
think we're ranked too high. I think a lot of Notre Dame fans
after the disappointment of the Boston College performance,
after losing the two games we did, I think we're, we're a
little more critical of ourselves than the national
media is. I, I, I think a lot of Notre
Dame fans feel like. Where it gets by what?
What? I didn't expect us to be ranked
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this. I I mean, a lot of people that
are Notre Dame fans that thoughtwe're going to be 1314 and need
some help to get in, Yeah, I think there was a lot of people
in that area so. So where we're at right now,
I'm. Happy where we're at.
Nerd Dame would be going on the road to BYU in an opening
playoff in the 10 seven match and I saw a line.
Do you have any guesses what theVandool would put out the line
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to be if Nerdame played BYU on at BYU?
7 1/2 point favorites. 9 1/2 point 9 and. 1/2 Wow, I thought
7 1/2 Yeah, but. Vandool Sports book put out that
I saw that on social. Nerdame would be the biggest
favorite on the road. Obviously Georgia over Memphis
would be 1. I forget the Texas.
Texas Tech in Oregon was about to pick them and I think I
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forget what the old miss one was.
Maybe 3 or 4 1/2 points. So it's it's not going to hold
but. These are all going to change
like no one's. Because Texas Tech and BYU play
this weekend. Yep.
So expect one of those teams to lose and fall behind us.
Yeah. And then obviously we've got the
ones behind us that are interesting ones to follow would
be we've got Texas out and Oklahoma out.
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I believe Texas plays one of either Georgia or Alabama, I
can't remember, in the opposite of Oklahoma.
So yeah, there's some big games behind us.
Texas plays A&M as well. Yes, Texas plays A and MI think
that's who is Texas plays A&M atthe end of the year and then but
the interesting part from that nerd in BYU game is the winner
would go on to play IU in 1/4 final match of which that would
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be. So where was that game going to
be at? Yeah, that would be the
interesting one, right, Because.The way it's projected right
now, Ohio State's won and I used2 so and they try and make that
game somewhat regional. So like Ohio State and I, you
are so close to your graphicallylike.
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Ohio State would get their firstdibs, yeah.
I hadn't looked at like the Bulls and the Bull tie insurance
and I'm like, OK, Ohio State most likely goes down to
Atlanta. So the quarterfinals is showing
to make sure I get these right. Is the Cotton Bowl, the Rose
Bowl, the Orange Bowl and the Sugar Bowl?
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So Ohio State Sugar Bowl. You would think right is where
they would end up. But if you've got Bama and.
But Ohio State's ranked one. Yeah, but with, with, with that,
would they, I mean, Sugar Bowl or my Orange Bowl could be,
Yeah. I don't know what the choice
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would be for Ohio State. And then, yeah, that that leads
to IU. Yeah.
Where are they sending them after?
I don't know, but you would think they'd want to get Bama in
the Sugar Bowl and A&M in that Cotton Bowl.
But what's going to happen right?
Most like. Ohio State IU will play each
other. And they could, yeah.
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Is Alabama still in the hunt to make the SEC Championship?
Yeah, I. I, I haven't looked at that.
So I, I think A&M has got like Texas in their way.
I don't think Alabama has anybody in their way of no.
They got LSU this weekend, right?
Next weekend. Or next weekend.
Yep. I historically I'd say LSU is
going to be a roadblock potential for Alabama, but with
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everything that's going to LSU, I don't think that's a roadblock
for them. I think LSU has got a pretty
clear path. So is it is it setting up for
A&M and Bama to play in the SEC championship?
Because we know IU and Ohio State are going to play in the
Big 10 champions. That's.
What it feels like. And I think there's a scenario
where let's just say A. And M and Bama are both
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undefeated in the SEC. So I think they're on, I think
they're on path to play in the SEC Championship.
And and so let's just go the IU Ohio State route, right?
One and two right now argument to be made that Iowa, Ohio State
should be two, IU should be 1 whatever.
I don't really have a dog in that fight.
So they're going to, are they going to stay one and two and I?
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Think probably, probably not like if.
Unless the Big 10 championship game, assume they both went out
and they should and they go to the Big 10.
I mean, I say should knowing that Michigan has owned Ohio
State and who knows what's goingto get happened in that game.
And I still think there's a, in my mind, it's, I think there's a
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chance Purdue somehow finds a way to beat IU.
I, I, I say it and I'm just, I'mon record multiple times.
I, there's no reason for it. Like Ohio State and IU should
win out. So as long as that game is
probably 7 points or less, I think both those teams still
stay ranked. But I don't know if they stayed
1:00 and 2:00 I could. Probably go big 10 champs one
SEC champs 2 and then big 10 runner up 3.
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If it's close, but let's say Indiana beats Ohio State by 21
points. I know, but they're going to
give the conference champions, if you make it.
Remember last year they were still conference championship
heavy. Conference champions going to be
1 whoever. Whoever made it though was like,
I know they didn't fall very much for that, so it's going to
be. Very They're not going to fall
to 12. No, that's what I'm saying.
I. Think, but I think I think they
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could fall like if IU and if it's a blowout and you and I
differ on this, IU beats Ohio State by 21 or Ohio State beats
the winner of the of the Big 10 is going to stay #1 and I think
the loser's going to fall like 5or 6.
That's right. It's great they'll be.
No matter what you think, they'll be 3 no matter what.
Yep. 3 or 4 they'll see they'll have first round bye.
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Yep. It'll be interesting to see what
this committee does. Yeah, and and same thing with
the SEC. It's a new thing where it's not
that just the Champs, they have the bye.
So that's where it's going to beinteresting who they do they
give. If you make the conference
championship of the Big 10 SEC with one loss, you're going to
be the you're gonna be have a buy.
I don't know but does anyone want to buy because no one won
last year with 1 so it. Wasn't it wasn't an advantage,
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Yeah. So, but that'll dictate like,
who goes to what game? Because yeah, I would love Notre
Dame to play #2 IU in the secondround in the Orange Bowl, like.
I'd love to go to the Rose. Bowl or the Rose Bowl?
I put that on record and like, go to the Rose Bowl.
And I can see that, like the Rose Bowl Big 10 tie in.
Yeah, it geographically makes nosense.
Could also, yeah. But like so yeah, and I don't
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know how that's decided. Does the school get to pick or
does the the bull get to pick and like I I've not studied
that. Yeah, because if.
Last year was just geographic, right, so.
I believe so, but I think it's also conference tie insurance a
little bit last year because, yeah, which was easier to do
because you knew you're going tohave your 4 conference champs.
Exactly. This year you, you don't have.
So you're like SEC champs going to the Sugar Bowl no matter
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what. Like that's what happened.
So if we finish nine and we play#8 whoever, whoever, and let's
say it's BYU, we play #8 BYU in Provo and then we turn around
and have to face number one. Is that Ohio State in the Rose
Bowl like? Yeah, that'd be crazy.
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That would be cool. I, I, we got to beat Ohio State
sometime in my life. Eventually, we got to beat Ohio.
State 5. Years.
Why not this year? Right.
Well. Anyway, so yeah, I think the
whole CFP thing, Notre Dame's ingood shape, good spot.
Now we just got to, we just got to win out, right?
So our stumbling block between now and the CFP is Navy, one
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game at a time. Pitt is not going to be an easy
game. Probably the the most difficult
game left on our schedule. And then Stanford.
Syracuse, then Stanford. Or Syracuse, then Stanford.
I was going the other direction,yeah.
And Syracuse was a lot more concerning when they had Steve
Angelli. So and Stanford, they're going
to come around. I think Andrew Lux going to have
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them there in a few years. So let's enjoy it while we can.
All right. Anything else on CFPI?
Got nothing. All right, I'm sure we'll get
that in a couple weeks, right? We'll get on to it a little.
Each week we'll get more information.
Yeah, it's just another data point right now.
We got one. We'll get some more.
Yep. All right, well, we'll see you
guys. If you're up at the Navy game,
have a great time. We'll be there.
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Love the tradition. It'll be a great one.
Yeah, embrace it. As always, go Irish.
It's the moment you didn't know you're waiting for.
He is Carter, he's Chad, and this is the.
Irish 365 podcast welcome into the Irish 365 podcast.
We got a Navy preview Navy threestraight kind of rivalry weeks.
Obviously a buy in between, but an interesting part of the
season, right? I mean, Boston College, we
haven't played in the wild like don't play every year.
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I've seen Navy we play every year USC we play every year for
now right so yeah, I currently yeah.
So an interesting dynamic for Notre Dame here 3 rivalry games.
Obviously me and you love this game.
I know there's some people out on social that hate it.
I got my 100 Year 4 Horsemen sweatshirt on from our attempt
our game last year at Yankee Stadium.
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One of my favorites last year. Yeah, lot, lot before the game
that went on, but just a lot of one of my favorite games, yeah.
As someone who pays attention togame day OPS, I'm sure it drove
you nuts, but that's a whole nother story.
The game itself was phenomenal, The atmosphere was phenomenal,
the crowd was phenomenal. Getting it out of the stadium,
not so well, but that's again, you just I won't digress.
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So yeah, we I love Navy. I know a lot of people are like,
why do we play Navy? Why do we play Navy?
I one is I respect the hell out of the Navy Academy and the the
military service side of it. What those kids are doing, the
commitment they've made to our country and and their effort.
Like very few kids are coming out of the Naval Academy going
to the NFL. Like just that ain't happening.
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But just then what what Navy means to Notre Dame and what
Notre Dame means to Navy and that whole side.
I won't go into that. We've covered that and there's
plenty of places to cover nauseam.
If you want me to give a dissertation, hit us up on DMS
and social and I'll I'll record something special and send it to
you directly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'll even personalize it like anautographed.
I'll put your name. In there, it's a cameo, right?
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I'd like a cameo. Yeah, we're not.
We're not cameo level yet, but I'll do it for free if you
really want. If you really want me to give
you all the reasons why we should play.
And he'll enjoy it. And yeah, I should just record
it for my own benefit, right? So, yeah, I love the Navy game.
It's a challenging game, right? Because no one runs the triple
option better. And Navy's got a quarterback
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that's a. That's a.
Throwing like Arvic. I mean, dude, legitimately, I've
seen this Heisman Trophy candidate.
This could be a Heisman game. Like, what are we go?
Are we going Blake? Are we going Jeremiah Love?
Right? Like, one of these guys is going
to be eliminated this week with a loss, which is an interesting,
interesting thing, right? Yeah, and Navy was probably on
the precipice of being ranked had it not been for the North
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Texas long. Which North Texas was by far
their toughest matchup of the year so far.
So, yeah, a lot of people are saying this Navy team is not
that great. I think.
I think last week was a sleeper game.
You know, they were looking forward to the Irish so.
Yeah, they trap game for them trap game.
We we both had a trap game. And I saw this on social and I,
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I hadn't thought about it and, but interesting is there was
some theory going out there thatNotre Dame was taking the bye
week and focusing on prepping for a top 25 matchup Navy team
and the difficulty of, of how todefend the triple option.
Al Golden knew it cold. And you, you also had Jack
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Kaiser who ran triple option in high school, like leading a
defensive charge and making surepeople in the right spot.
We don't have that same combination.
So we've, we've owned Navy the last couple years and well
defended them. So was Marcus Freeman taking
time and focusing on Navy? I'm hoping that that theory is
true. So if that was the case, it
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would make sense that the team was looking past Boston College,
letting their guard down a little bit, focusing on Navy and
if and you know, because you want to have a big A1 in seven,
Boston College wasn't a threat to beating us.
Like I just they just weren't. But they gave it one hell of an
effort, right? So were we focused on guarding
the triple option and the discipline?
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Because it's all about discipline and protecting
yourself against the triple option.
And we played Army last year at Yankees, damn, didn't we?
Yeah, we played. Army, it was Navy.
It was in New York at MetLife, that's on.
It was MetLife. I was thinking different games.
It makes it difficult when they were both in the.
New, but they're both triple option teams.
Both triple option, but the thing that I.
Won. This Navy team was ranked last
year when we played that and hadan uncharacteristic 6 turnovers.
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Yeah at MetLife, which is just insane.
Like we can't. Like we blew the doors off them
with six turnovers like and theywere just, we weren't even
forced in some of them. Muff punts like yeah, so there
was a couple of defensive. Plays we forced three, I think,
but yeah, there was there was three or three that were like,
that's not happening very often for Navy.
What you don't typically see from service Academy is
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undisciplined football. They're not.
Yeah, they don't generally beat themselves.
And to some degree, they and. It's going to be very
interesting this week when we talk.
We've talked about officiating alot this year, like bad for
Notre Dame and other teams, but Navy doesn't like is not a team
that comes in and penalizes likethis.
So it's going to be interesting this week about the refs that
you are we going to see a lot offlags on Navy or is it going to
stay pretty pretty non yeah, this is a team that it's going
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to run the triple option like you said, and we talked about
this a lot last week and we'll get into it more later.
But are they going to dominate the time of possession right?
Like this is a team that I mean,if we're talking about their
keys to victory, right, if that's what we're going to get
into navy's going to slow this game down.
They're, I'm not going to say they're going to watch the
Boston College film. That was their plan before the
Boston College game, right? Reinforced during the Boston
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College game. If they if they watch game tape
from last week, like what did Boston College do?
Because they're not going to outscore you.
Navy's not going to go A&M. 40. 142 right.
They're not going to Miami us. They're they're going to have to
do something very similar to what Boston College did run the
play clock down, drain and just 3 yards in a cloud of dust.
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Yeah, long sustained drives weardown our defense and keep our
offense off the field. Yeah.
And yeah, if you're Notre Dame, I mean, I think the thing's got
to be, can we keep this Navy? The key is person second down.
Yeah, I that's the best way to put it.
You got to keep Navy in 3rd and four longer.
Like they can't be in 3rd and 3rd and three.
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In short, like they're gonna, they're gonna probably pick that
up. I'd say almost third and five,
yeah. You you want them to be third
and five? Yeah.
They've got an experienced quarterback like we've
mentioned, like he he's probably, he's not going to win
the Heisman, but he's in the conversation like he's put up
some numbers. Obviously last week hurt him a
little bit. But this is a team that we we
got to figure out how to keep off the field.
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And that's going to be interesting for the Notre Dame
offense. Like I feel like we've been when
we've scored, we've scored quick.
So what's it going to be this week?
Are we going to take these long drives and get down to the red
zone and punch it in finally, orwe're going to have to score
from 50 yards out? Yeah, See, that's that's going
to be the interesting part of this.
And I think that's where the what is Denbrot going to do from
a strategy standpoint? I mean, you want to be North
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Texas, you want to go, you know,20 yards of play and score in
three plays, right? Go 80 yards in 4 plays kind of a
thing. I think he's going to want to
because that opportunity to be there, obviously North Texas
showed you can get big chunk plays and you can score and
we're going to have. North Texas over 234 yards there
and 190 rushing. Like we're going to see that the
North Texas game is going to be a template for us.
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What we want to do offensively, we should pick up cues from
that, But so I, but the, the other side of that is you don't
want to score too fast because of Navy is sustaining long
drives and bring out your defense and then you're turning
around and scoring quickly. Your, you know, your defensive
depths going to come into question at some point, you
know, so I, I think that's goingto be interesting.
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But if we can, if we can stop Navy early, score early and then
force Navy to go off schedule and try and not slow the game
down and try and, you know, go into a high, more high, high
tempo, high scoring offense. That is got to be kind of key
for us. I mean, we got to score fast
early and then maybe slow it down late.
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So if we can get up to three touchdowns in the first half,
then we can slow it down a little bit, give our defense
some rest, keep them fresh, optimize it.
If we don't do that and we let Navy control the clock and and
and time a possession and slow the game down the way they
they'd like to and keep it closeto the fourth quarter and
hopefully, you know, out attrition us because we're wore
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down and they're still fresh. I mean, our guys, our guys are
physically fit, but I don't knowthat we're Navy Academy, you
know, practice plus PT plus whatever else they do kind of a
fit. So I, I, I think that's the
challenge for us. I mean, we're going to have the
size advantage. We're going to have the weight
advantage. I mean, we're going to have
better athletes. I feel good defensively.
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Like I, I think about Sneed. I think about, you know, Kay
Johnson, Grayton, Aubrey, Aubreyor Asbury coming up to the line,
Drake Bowen, like KVA, like Kingston.
Feels so good about our corners and our secondary making so much
progress and we've talked about this, but can they stay
undisciplined for that one pass play, right?
Kante Johnson, who's not played against this triple option stay
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for that one fake. That's because you know what's?
Going to happen. Right, because it's going to
happen where he's going to come up the field or someone's going
to come up and someone's going to be wide open.
Like can we avoid that? Because that's what Navy's
trying to do, right? They're going to they're going
to burn you once. They're going to, they're going
to expect us to get nine in the box.
And and here's the thing, right?I don't think Navy has a burner
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in the slot or in the wide receiver that's going to that's
going to outrun one of our corners.
So our corners are going to be left to play man coverage, which
we're comfortable in, right? Give me, give me Leonard, more
man coverage against the best Navy receiver.
I'm OK with that. So, yeah, it's just that
discipline, right? If you see that tight end or you
see that, you know, slot guy, like you got to hold your
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position, hold, hold your assignment.
If we play discipline football, we'll be fine.
But we got some young guys on the defense.
We don't have that leadership, you know, 27th year senior
Kaiser that, you know, to keep people in check.
So how much lesson did Drake Bowen learn?
How well does he know that? I think Drake Bowen ran triple
option in high school. Adrian didn't run triple option.
OK I know Kaiser did a a pioneerso I wasn't sure if Bowen did
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it. Adrian, I know he was a full
back so like. He no, I think he just.
Was he straight tailback? Yeah, ran people over back.
He was, he was, he was a he was Jerome Bettis.
He was back body playing tailback just looking for
contact fun to watch. But yeah, so I so that's,
that'll be the interesting part of it for us.
Just but on defense, let's get the keys victory for Notre Dame.
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What comes to mind is offense scores 35 points.
Yeah. Like, that feels like if you
scored 35, you, you win this game by 14, like, like 28.
I don't feel crazy comfortable with 'cause like, you can this
Navy team can hold around, but they're done.
Gets to 35 points, which doesn'tfeel like a lot for this
offense, but it's been struggling.
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Yeah, we we were putting up 40 points a game and then we
didn't. Yeah.
So which is interesting on. So that's my kind of key, which
is a weird key victory, but like, we got to score.
Yeah, score quick, score early. Yeah, and can't win the turnover
battle. Like maybe he's going to get one
random one. Like it feels like they do, like
they'll the force of fumble can Price hold onto the ball because
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he's had a little bit of a fumble bug.
And it's kind of one of those things where, you know, he's a
good back, but is it in his headat this point?
Yeah, and. Jeremiah Love Fumble 1.
Did he fumble? Not a bounce.
We didn't turn it over, but he fumble one out of bounce and he
fumble one earlier this season. I think he recovered.
So yeah, I mean, yeah, we, we. Clean that up and chance of
rain. I believe Saturday night in
South Bend that. Was like 20%.
Yeah, I was just saying I know there's a chance of rain this
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weekend. So yeah, that'll play a factor.
Could play a factor into it. Not as much as USC, but there's
a chance, yeah. So what what other keys you got
for Notre Dame here this weekend?
I, I think it's, it's pretty straightforward, right?
Like what we just said, discipline on defense, keep them
in 3rd and long offensively, score early and score quick, get
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the lead and then slow it down. You know, and then because
you're not going to get mistakesout of Navy, you got to force
Navy out of their their schedule, out of their game plan
where they're trying to make bigplays because they they're down
14 points. They have to do something 14
might. Not even be enough.
It's sometimes got to be 2128 before they even drive.
But if you. Can get up 1421 points and get
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them to where they go out of thetriple option and slowing the
game down because they try to hurry things up.
That that plays into our favor and that's where we want to get
to. And we got the sooner we can get
there, the earlier we get there in the game, the better because
our defense will still be fresh and they won't be wore down.
And you know, you go into a couple of eight minute drives of
Navy and our guys are on the field and we score quick and
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then they're back on the field more trading touchdowns and it's
2121, but our guys are wore out.I don't feel good about that.
So but I'm hoping we'll I'm hoping we'll be able to do that.
I think I think that'd be the game plan if I was coming into
schedule. 100% so nobody opens up his 26 1/2 point favorites
over under that 56 1/2, you're getting the score predictions.
What are you thinking? Man, you know, I'm thinking and
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I want to go like we cover, right?
Because if you if 56 is the overunder 26 point favorite.
So that's that's like saying like 282028 like or I guess
1420. No, wait, 1435 something like
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that. Yeah, I feel like here, here's
where I'm at. I feel like we're going to,
we're going to have some, I, I don't feel like we're past the
special teams kicking woes. So are we going to go for two?
Are we going to do some things like that?
So my score prediction, I'm feeling like 17.
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I think Navy gets 2 scores and atouchdown or a field goal.
I'm thinking like 17. I think Notre Dame is going to
have some wonky weird score like1736 or something like that.
We're in the ballpark. Yeah, I'm going 3514.
I'm with you. I think maybe gets 2 touchdowns.
And yeah, I have us not covering.
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I don't think we cover. Which is normally good for the
Irish. If both of us are on, we're not
covering. Usually it's 99 to nothing.
No, you, you just said it. So now we're going to be right,
which we normally aren't, so. But yeah, 3514, this is a good
Navy team and yeah, can the Irish, I think I'm going to
doubt until we can they prove uswrong?
Can they punch the ball in the end zone?
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They've moved the ball. Can we?
Can we start finishing drives? Yeah, and, and physically we're
going to have bigger, more athletic guys.
But discipline wise that is it. It's going to be a tough
challenge to get in that red zone and have to the compact
field short yardage plays the Navy discipline.
So we got to right those wrongs if we're going to write them.
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And this is, this is the week wehave to write them.
I'm, I still think it's going tobe a couple of our scores if we
get, if we got 5 touchdowns, I'mthinking two or three of them
are going to be 20 plus yard touchdowns, long passes, long
runs. You know Jeremiah loved loves 90
yard runs and priced those two. CJ Carr passing yards this week.
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He's kind of what I'm thinking of, some bets.
Got what I'm going to mess with?I feel like, I feel like a
special teams touchdown's comingtoo.
Punt return, check return, I I feel like we're going to get a
special teams touchdown. Like or defensive special team,
Yeah, hit one of those couple. Weeks, maybe a defensive score.
Yeah, all. Right.
So I think the moment everyone'sbeen waiting for right here,
right? Contest.
Contest. So we've talked a lot about this
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one, but we're we got to start this off so we can get an
official clip here out on the old X.
So here we go. If you'd like to win two tickets
to Notre Dame for Syracuse, you've got two chances left.
All you have to do is be following us on the X and you
have to comment under this post and our contest this week is
going to be the Notre Dame time of possession.
Minutes and seconds. Minutes and seconds the closest
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person to that will win an Irish365 T-shirt automatically and be
entered to win two Nerd Inver Syracuse draw.
And like I said, only two chances left to get into that
draw. Yeah, 'cause this is a game
where we could have a huge deficit in time of possession
and still win. But the higher our time of
possession goes, the more confident I feel in that win.
Yep. So yeah, that's obviously if you
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don't know, it's got to be between 000 and 6060 minutes,
right? Can't.
Well, maybe if you think of overtime, but that would be.
Crazy. Yeah.
I don't know how time possessionworks in the old overtime, but
yeah. So yeah, it's gotta be between 0
minutes and 60 minutes. I think it's gonna be a fun one,
though. I mean, this, this, this
feature. I see what people think.
So if your guess is 30 minutes, then put 30 colon 00.
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Yep, your guess is 31 minutes 30seconds 31 colon 30, right?
There's a lot of possibilities out there.
This Navy team has controlled the ball.
Notre Dame obviously did not control the ball against the
Boston College team last week, so it'll be interesting what
happened here. We lost time of possession
against Boston College. Yep.
So we're guessing the Notre Dametime of possession this week.
I think that's the key stat for us.
Yep, time of possession. All right, well, so there's our
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contest. We've hit the Navy preview.
Sounds like we got to get into alittle bit the Kochwell playoff
because Notre Dame happens to bea little somewhat making
everyone talk, right? Shocker.
We were going to bring controversy.
No matter what. Whether we're in or out, and I
love where we're in and I, and Ithink this is kind of the, as I
thought about it last night and Notre Dame haters got all the
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reason in the world to throw shade at Notre Dame because they
think we're ranked too high. I think a lot of Notre Dame fans
after the disappointment of the Boston College performance,
after losing the two games we did, I think we're, we're a
little more critical of ourselves than the national
media is. I, I, I think a lot of Notre
Dame fans feel like. Where it gets by what?
What? I didn't expect us to be ranked
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this. I I mean, a lot of people that
are Notre Dame fans that thoughtwe're going to be 1314 and need
some help to get in, Yeah, I think there was a lot of people
in that area so. So where we're at right now,
I'm. Happy where we're at.
Nerd Dame would be going on the road to BYU in an opening
playoff in the 10 seven match and I saw a line.
Do you have any guesses what theVandool would put out the line
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to be if Nerdame played BYU on at BYU?
7 1/2 point favorites. 9 1/2 point 9 and. 1/2 Wow, I thought
7 1/2 Yeah, but. Vandool Sports book put out that
I saw that on social. Nerdame would be the biggest
favorite on the road. Obviously Georgia over Memphis
would be 1. I forget the Texas.
Texas Tech in Oregon was about to pick them and I think I
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forget what the old miss one was.
Maybe 3 or 4 1/2 points. So it's it's not going to hold
but. These are all going to change
like no one's. Because Texas Tech and BYU play
this weekend. Yep.
So expect one of those teams to lose and fall behind us.
Yeah. And then obviously we've got the
ones behind us that are interesting ones to follow would
be we've got Texas out and Oklahoma out.
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I believe Texas plays one of either Georgia or Alabama, I
can't remember, in the opposite of Oklahoma.
So yeah, there's some big games behind us.
Texas plays A&M as well. Yes, Texas plays A and MI think
that's who is Texas plays A&M atthe end of the year and then but
the interesting part from that nerd in BYU game is the winner
would go on to play IU in 1/4 final match of which that would
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be. So where was that game going to
be at? Yeah, that would be the
interesting one, right, Because.The way it's projected right
now, Ohio State's won and I used2 so and they try and make that
game somewhat regional. So like Ohio State and I, you
are so close to your graphicallylike.
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Ohio State would get their firstdibs, yeah.
I hadn't looked at like the Bulls and the Bull tie insurance
and I'm like, OK, Ohio State most likely goes down to
Atlanta. So the quarterfinals is showing
to make sure I get these right. Is the Cotton Bowl, the Rose
Bowl, the Orange Bowl and the Sugar Bowl?
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So Ohio State Sugar Bowl. You would think right is where
they would end up. But if you've got Bama and.
But Ohio State's ranked one. Yeah, but with, with, with that,
would they, I mean, Sugar Bowl or my Orange Bowl could be,
Yeah. I don't know what the choice
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would be for Ohio State. And then, yeah, that that leads
to IU. Yeah.
Where are they sending them after?
I don't know, but you would think they'd want to get Bama in
the Sugar Bowl and A&M in that Cotton Bowl.
But what's going to happen right?
Most like. Ohio State IU will play each
other. And they could, yeah.
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Is Alabama still in the hunt to make the SEC Championship?
Yeah, I. I, I haven't looked at that.
So I, I think A&M has got like Texas in their way.
I don't think Alabama has anybody in their way of no.
They got LSU this weekend, right?
Next weekend. Or next weekend.
Yep. I historically I'd say LSU is
going to be a roadblock potential for Alabama, but with
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everything that's going to LSU, I don't think that's a roadblock
for them. I think LSU has got a pretty
clear path. So is it is it setting up for
A&M and Bama to play in the SEC championship?
Because we know IU and Ohio State are going to play in the
Big 10 champions. That's.
What it feels like. And I think there's a scenario
where let's just say A. And M and Bama are both
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undefeated in the SEC. So I think they're on, I think
they're on path to play in the SEC Championship.
And and so let's just go the IU Ohio State route, right?
One and two right now argument to be made that Iowa, Ohio State
should be two, IU should be 1 whatever.
I don't really have a dog in that fight.
So they're going to, are they going to stay one and two and I?
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Think probably, probably not like if.
Unless the Big 10 championship game, assume they both went out
and they should and they go to the Big 10.
I mean, I say should knowing that Michigan has owned Ohio
State and who knows what's goingto get happened in that game.
And I still think there's a, in my mind, it's, I think there's a
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chance Purdue somehow finds a way to beat IU.
I, I, I say it and I'm just, I'mon record multiple times.
I, there's no reason for it. Like Ohio State and IU should
win out. So as long as that game is
probably 7 points or less, I think both those teams still
stay ranked. But I don't know if they stayed
1:00 and 2:00 I could. Probably go big 10 champs one
SEC champs 2 and then big 10 runner up 3.
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If it's close, but let's say Indiana beats Ohio State by 21
points. I know, but they're going to
give the conference champions, if you make it.
Remember last year they were still conference championship
heavy. Conference champions going to be
1 whoever. Whoever made it though was like,
I know they didn't fall very much for that, so it's going to
be. Very They're not going to fall
to 12. No, that's what I'm saying.
I. Think, but I think I think they
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could fall like if IU and if it's a blowout and you and I
differ on this, IU beats Ohio State by 21 or Ohio State beats
the winner of the of the Big 10 is going to stay #1 and I think
the loser's going to fall like 5or 6.
That's right. It's great they'll be.
No matter what you think, they'll be 3 no matter what.
Yep. 3 or 4 they'll see they'll have first round bye.
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Yep. It'll be interesting to see what
this committee does. Yeah, and and same thing with
the SEC. It's a new thing where it's not
that just the Champs, they have the bye.
So that's where it's going to beinteresting who they do they
give. If you make the conference
championship of the Big 10 SEC with one loss, you're going to
be the you're gonna be have a buy.
I don't know but does anyone want to buy because no one won
last year with 1 so it. Wasn't it wasn't an advantage,
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Yeah. So, but that'll dictate like,
who goes to what game? Because yeah, I would love Notre
Dame to play #2 IU in the secondround in the Orange Bowl, like.
I'd love to go to the Rose. Bowl or the Rose Bowl?
I put that on record and like, go to the Rose Bowl.
And I can see that, like the Rose Bowl Big 10 tie in.
Yeah, it geographically makes nosense.
Could also, yeah. But like so yeah, and I don't
(24:04):
know how that's decided. Does the school get to pick or
does the the bull get to pick and like I I've not studied
that. Yeah, because if.
Last year was just geographic, right, so.
I believe so, but I think it's also conference tie insurance a
little bit last year because, yeah, which was easier to do
because you knew you're going tohave your 4 conference champs.
Exactly. This year you, you don't have.
So you're like SEC champs going to the Sugar Bowl no matter
(24:26):
what. Like that's what happened.
So if we finish nine and we play#8 whoever, whoever, and let's
say it's BYU, we play #8 BYU in Provo and then we turn around
and have to face number one. Is that Ohio State in the Rose
Bowl like? Yeah, that'd be crazy.
(24:47):
That would be cool. I, I, we got to beat Ohio State
sometime in my life. Eventually, we got to beat Ohio.
State 5. Years.
Why not this year? Right.
Well. Anyway, so yeah, I think the
whole CFP thing, Notre Dame's ingood shape, good spot.
Now we just got to, we just got to win out, right?
So our stumbling block between now and the CFP is Navy, one
(25:08):
game at a time. Pitt is not going to be an easy
game. Probably the the most difficult
game left on our schedule. And then Stanford.
Syracuse, then Stanford. Or Syracuse, then Stanford.
I was going the other direction,yeah.
And Syracuse was a lot more concerning when they had Steve
Angelli. So and Stanford, they're going
to come around. I think Andrew Lux going to have
(25:29):
them there in a few years. So let's enjoy it while we can.
All right. Anything else on CFPI?
Got nothing. All right, I'm sure we'll get
that in a couple weeks, right? We'll get on to it a little.
Each week we'll get more information.
Yeah, it's just another data point right now.
We got one. We'll get some more.
Yep. All right, well, we'll see you
guys. If you're up at the Navy game,
have a great time. We'll be there.
(25:50):
Love the tradition. It'll be a great one.
Yeah, embrace it. As always, go Irish.
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