Irish 365 20251120 Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs Syracuse Orange Football Preview

Irish 365 20251120 Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs Syracuse Orange Football Preview

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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 have Syracuse preview for you.
It's senior Day. Senior Day, I love it.
Yeah, this game when I think we came into the season, we're both
a little excited for, right? Steve Angele coming back to

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town. Senior day Syracuse.
Don't think it'd be pretty good.Maybe even a back end ranked
team. Definitely not the case.
Three and seven Syracuse. No fault of Steve Angele though.
No team started off 3 and 1 tillthe injury and ever since
haven't won a game. Yeah.
What? He played four.
Was it 4 games when he got injured?

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Yeah, yeah. I think Game 4 because he could
keep his red shirt. He played four games.
So. But yeah, the Syracuse team
Stephen Jelly when the being of the season was the nation, the
national leading the passing yards like leading the whole
nation and he still Syracuse is being passed and he hasn't
played after season so. He played 3 1/2 games and he is

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still leading Syracuse statistically in yards, passing,
yards, completions this year. So.
Yeah, which is which is nuts. But yeah, the Syracuse team's
three and seven, I mean, the Irish are huge favorites.
Come to South Bedford senior day.
Just get these out of the way. Nerd him. 35 1/2 point favorites
over under 50 1/2. I mean, yeah, that tells you

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everything to lead for the game.But I will say this, a couple
weeks ago, we did this for Boston and Boston College play
is pretty close. Yeah.
But looking back on, it sounds like it was a look forward to
the Navy generate the triple option during the bye.
I I don't think there are names looking forward to Stanford over
this Syracuse team. Yeah, I mean, there's the danger

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with all the CFP talk that the Irish could be looking past the
next two teams and thinking about College Football Playoff.
But I also think there's enough uncertainty in that College
Football Playoff that they they're going to take care of
business one game at a time, focus on the point in front of
them. At least that's what they need
to do. If they don't, they're in
trouble. So yeah, I don't think there's
any looking past Syracuse, you probably saw Jeremiah Love was

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on the Pat Mack show the other day and I I think he gave a lot
of confidence that they were focused and either ready to put
their foot on the gas pedal to quote Jeremiah Love.
So I like to hear that. I hope that translates into
activity. And the other thing I like from
that conversation was he said wedon't think there's anybody we
can't beat. So 2 very good confidence

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statements. I like hearing from my team,
especially A-Team leader like Jeremiah Love.
So. So yeah.
Anyway, going into Syracuse, youknow, this Senior Day should
have been the Steve Angele reunion.
You know, Jeremiah Love is probably not going to, he will
not get to participate in SeniorDay activities because he has to
be a senior. But this very well could be his
last game in Notre Dame Stadium.Yeah, I was definitely going to

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check, cut the bone for that. Like we got to recognize like
this is I, I, I don't think we're going to get home playoff.
I've been on the home playoff game kick for a while.
I'm starting not to believe in it.
Hopefully off games probably nothave unless a few things happen
in front of us. So yeah, I'm fully just being.
This is Jeremiah Love's last game in Notre Dame Stadium,
which is crazy. It's been awesome, but I

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appreciate it. Yeah, I mean, he's one of those
players that he's, he's going tobe a Notre Dame legend.
You know, just people are going to talk about him 10/15/20 years
from now, just what a great player he was and.
I mean, I literally think he might be the best Notre Dame
offensive. He might be the best nerd Dame
player I've ever seen in my lifetime, but for sure
offensive. Yeah, definitely best offensive

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player. I you know, I go back to rocket
Ishmael and I and I think back to like, you know, Tim Brown,
like those were some game changing transition players and
and I I'm like he's got rocket ish type speed.
He's got Tim Brown game changingability.
But I I think he's just, he's just does a lot more.

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He I, I and I don't want to haverecency bias.
Yeah, I'm almost like, yeah, I'mwith you.
Like I've seen really great players.
But he may be, he may be, I don't know.
He just, he just he may be different, right?
I mean, that's just all I can say.
He's different. So anyway, let's talk Syracuse
real quick. Then let's talk, let's talk

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Jeremiah Love Heisman hopes or not hopes and talk about the
senior festivities and then thenwe can talk about the greater
world of CFPS. So yeah, not a lot to say here
about Syracuse. I think you wrapped it up with
the over and under being high, the point spread being high.
Does Notre Dame cover? I guess that's that's the
question. Yeah, I I was gonna say that's
really the question this week. Did Notre Dame cover 35 1/2?

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That's a lot of points. But Syracuse hasn't been scored
very many points and we've our offense has been clicking it in,
clicking in the eye gear. It was like the Syracuse teams
kind of wrapped it in for next year.
But here's what I will say. A lot of these guys might be in
the portal. And yeah, yeah, put some good
film out if you like. Clearly, Syracuse isn't happen,

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isn't happy with what's happenedthis year.
You lose the quarterback, but your defense starts letting up a
crap ton of points. Your offense isn't scoring
anything. Yeah, and I mean, really, they
started 3:00 and 1:00. But let's look at their wins.
Syracuse, they beat UConn, Colgate and Clemson.
The Clemson win looked good. It did.

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Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, it's a team
that's probably going to. I have a lot of guys hitting the
portal, so it's got to be a big chance.
National TV game, Lot of guys are going to be able to put some
film out right. Yeah, So what?
What's their kicker look like 'cause that's the one guy I'm
in. Around out of.
Portal I I'm not saying we don'tlike the injury bug has hit us

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the last couple years. I mean, you go back to last
year, Jeter had a little bit of injury derailed like just yeah,
is there a kicker in the portal that we can pick up if we're not
going to get high level kickers and develop them, can we get one
in the portal? He's 10 for 11 this year, but
only one for 2 from 40 to 49, which is the statue really look
at. I mean, 30 to 39 is 5 for 5/20
for 29 for four, but I'll tell you that one for 2.

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That 5 for five from 30 to 39 sounds pretty good today.
Yeah, yeah. Were those all kicked inside the
Dome? I just need to know, was he in
the Dome at Syracuse when he kicked?
Yeah, that is. You don't want an indoor kicker
I guess, do you? Yeah, I, I want to make sure he
can kick in the cold wind at Lando Field next next summer or
next fall. So yeah.
So, yeah, I, I, I don't see a whole lot of like, I promise if

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I'm the Syracuse, I mean Syracuse coach, like we're going
to try and do something right. And I, and I think it's going to
be desperation, desperation, desperation.
But I think we got to get, I mean, they're starting a red
shirt. No, not a red shirt.
A true freshman walk on quarterback.
Yeah, true freshman walk on quarterback is that this kid is
so freaking phenomenal or is that things are so bad and I I

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think it's things are so bad. Yeah.
So. That yeah, that's you don't, you
don't hear freshman walking on quarterbacks getting any starts.
Not AD one. Here we are.
Yeah, not a division. One I mean you.
D2 maybe, D3 definitely, but yeah, not D1.
Yeah. So that that would be an

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interesting thing. How well does he know the
playbook because he was probablydoing scout team for most of the
year. And and you got to think that
Chris Ash is going to be able tothrow things at him that he's
not going to be prepared for like.
Yeah, you would sure hope so, right.
I mean, I mean, no matter who the quarterback is, they're he's

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going to throw stuff out of the haven't seen this year best
defense they've played since Clemson or Tennessee.
It we should throw things at him.
Like you said, they're not greatat rushing the ball.
They're leading receiver or leading rusher has 558 yards.
They don't get a great push up front.

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Yeah, it's it. There's not much going for
Syracuse. I hate, I hate to be this guy
that tells you this, but if you're Syracuse, slow it down.
Even if you go 3 and I hope you're taking 90 seconds to two
minutes off the clock, like that's what you're trying to
tell. Like that's your game plan.
Slow it down. You're not going to throw the
ball over our corners. To the gamblers out there, pick

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the defense special teams to score this week.
That's that's what I'm telling you.
It's I wouldn't take special teams.
I'm thinking defense pick 6. I wouldn't take, I wouldn't bet,
I wouldn't bet us to cover the spread even though I think it's
feasible, but. Really, I, I, I'm thinking it's
a cover. I We might hit the over on
ourselves. You're pretty confident?
Yeah, I'm feeling, I'm feeling pretty good about this one. 50°

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in South Bend. It's really going to be perfect
Football, weather, no rain, overcast.
It's going to keep. We're going to be able to throw
the ball. We're going to be able to run
the ball. We're.
Going to have the blue Gray sky and do what we want to do.
Exactly. It's not going to be a situation
where it's end of November and it's like snowing and we're like
we're going to hand the ball off.
Syracuse at least knows we're going to hand the ball off.
Can they stop it? Maybe, maybe not.

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It's like we're going to have all of our weapons available at
full disposal. Yeah.
And yeah, like you said, Jeremiah Love, not senior day,
but Jeddahian Price is his. It's his senior day.
He can still come back next year, but his senior day.
Yep, he's he is technically a senior, so he'll get to
participate in those activities.So I guess from the game

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standpoint, I'm with you. I, I don't see a lot of things
for Syracuse. I mean, I'm going to throw this
kitchen sink and I'm going to doeverything I've got at Notre
Dame. I'm a, I'm a blitz freaking 11.
You know, I, I may, I may try and play 12 guys on the field
and see if the referee's counting.
If I've got the opening kick. I may, I may onslide the opening
kick. I mean, I may just I'm

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desperation. I'm going to do, I'm going to go
unconventional and I'm trying tofigure something out.
Hey, this is their bowl game like.
Yeah, they need the win. They're on national TV.
Throw your trick plays out there.
Throw whatever you got. What?
What are you going to do, be 3 and 8?
Yeah, I mean, open up the door 'cause like, so I expect to see

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a lot of craziness now. You know, Syracuse might get
some breaks from the referees, keep them in the game, who knows
'cause the ACC still needs NotreDame to lose, so the ACC
champion has a shot at making the playoffs.
And maybe my right. And yeah, so all that I, I think

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it's there. I don't have a lot of like
confidence in anything I've seenor looked at or watched from the
Syracuse side that makes me think they've got they've got
some sort of opportunity. That's a strong opportunity.
I think they need Notre Dame to be unfocused.
If I'm if I'm Syracuse, I'm trying to get all the media hype
I can about Notre Dame as a lot for the play offs in front of

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those guys and get them to take the game off.
That's that's what I'm going to try and do.
But I don't know that that's that's feasible at this point.
I think Notre Dame again, their their mindset has to be when and
I think, you know, the greater thing that plays into this is
Marcus Freeman has the motivatorto say, listen, we could get
jumped and we could we there's athere's a scenario where Notre

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Dame wins out and doesn't make the College Football Playoff.
Like that is a real like real possibility.
I think it's a small probability, but there's a
possibility because if Miami gets close enough and the
random. Notre.
Dame yeah. So I don't want to go too far
down that path, but I think Marcus Freeman has the ability
to use that that motivation, getthe team focused and I and drive

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us to playing our best game because style points are needed
in the next two weeks. I mean, we got to win, we got to
cover. That's what you need to know
about -10 the turnover battle. That's what we're going to
dominate. I I would set the line at 2 1/2
turnovers this weekend. I think 2:00 to 3:00 would be

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pretty solid. And, and the other thing I think
you have to know is has JeremiahLove made his decision on
whether he's going to the NFL orhe's coming back?
I think he's probably made that decision, I think.
That's he made the decision before the season started.
Probably I. Literally you said this in my
last year. I'm pretty sure I heard that.

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Yeah. Well, you know, and I owe money,
everything else. But all that being said and
done, I think that decision's made and I'm with you.
So the only thing I can see Notre Dame doing is saying, OK,
we got a guy who's on the cusp of getting invited to New York.
We're going to, we're going to highlight him in this game to
get him some highlight reel, youknow, tape, try and build.

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We want to win the game. I think the defense could, I
think, I think the defense can win this game.
I I expect 2 defensive scores quite honestly, like at least
two defensive scores or at leasta defensive and special team
score. If not, if not 2 defensive
scores. So what do you think?
What do you think projection wise?
What's your thought on the score50?
5/3. 55 three wow, yeah, OK, that's.

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Where I bet like I tried to get away from it.
I tried to not go for it. 55 three yeah.
And I, and literally, I try not to make it seem like we're going
to just crush them, but it seemslike on senior days that's what
we've been doing like. Yeah, I, I, I'm thinking 424210
is where I'm at. I, I, I think 32 point victory,

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but I think we're going to see ahealthy dose of Kenny Minshee
and Aeneas Williams in the thirdquarter and in the fourth
quarter. I, I it'll.
Be interesting. Is this the week to bet Aeneas
Williams to score? But Payne Senior day.
So maybe I'll go pain on an anytime touchdown.
Yeah, they're going. To feed pain.
Because senior. Senior night, yeah.

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So yeah, I might, I might sprinkle a little on pain to
score this weekend is kind of what I've been thinking that
might be worth a dollar. What's that?
That might be worth a dollar. And I might.
I was thinking about going all four running backs anytime
touchdown though. That.
'D be an interesting one. Go love.
I'd probably go love anytime first half, because that'll get

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you. It won't be -600 get Bryce in
there minus I don't know what heis.
I haven't looked honestly -150 anytime and then going Nias and
pain. I was thinking about sprinkling
that on. That'd be an.
Interesting parlays you could put very little money on and and
get a big return. I'm thinking, yeah, so I'd be
interested in that one, but. Yeah, I mean, I, I don't think

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this is anywhat of a contest andit sucks because I thought
Syracuse, I thought it could be a top 25 match up and came into
the year. Yeah, I'm with you.
I I was expecting this to be a really interesting game.
And it's it's lost a lot of sizzle the and Jelly injury
just, you know, was part of that.
So, yeah, and my expectation is,like I said, I think I think the

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defense is going to score a couple touchdowns in the first
half. I think, you know, we're going
to see we're going to see Jeremiah Love score his
touchdown or two in the first half.
And I think we're going to see, you know, CJ Carr maybe throw it
if it's 35 to 3:00 at halftime, it won't surprise me.
But then, you know, like I said,I think late, late in the game,
fourth quarter, Syracuse gets a junk touchdown because they're

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playing the, you know, they're, we're getting we're we're doing
depth management, depth opportunities for third string
guys or, you know, depth guys onon the defense.
And I think they're going to probably have a little bit of
opportunity to do something there because we're going to go
pretty generic, pretty vanilla. It's going to look like a high
school defense. And they're, they're young
quarterbacks going to have some success finally.
But, and I, I think, you know, men, she's going to score a

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touchdown or, or maybe 2 seeing what it looks like.
But yeah, I just think that's kind of where it's at.
So I think they cover again, I think it's 42.
I think it's 4210, but I, I think maybe we're up 2828.
Nothing a half 35, nothing 1/2. And then but you know, we'll
see. I'd love, I'd love for us to put
up a a 70 burger, but or go Pat Narduzzi and score 100.

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But yeah, exactly. So, yeah.
What do you think, Jeremiah Love?
Oh, you got someone else on Syracuse?
No, that's that's all I got on there.
That's a hard transition for you.
But Yep, Jeremiah love, I mean, I you've been paying kids on
social media, you've actually seen a little bit of a Heisman
push. Best player in the country.
All this all that feels a littlelate to me, but I know no,

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didn't didn't want to early commit to it like they did Josh
Adams. And then it kind of really
fizzle out. And obviously it's a different
era for pushing for Heisman, like usually the Heisman
campaign, but now you got the NIL stuff.
So you can't go out there and sell the 33 trucking hats
without Josh Adams getting his cut, right?
And I don't think nerd probably has a problem negotiating that

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stuff, but it probably just takes longer, right?
Like nerd name can't just decideto go print a bunch of four love
shirts and sell them. But they've got to get make sure
Jeremiah loves getting his shareand all that stuff.
So I don't know how that all works, pushing for the Heisman
campaigns, but yeah, I mean, it definitely doesn't feel like
Jeremiah loves going to win it, but he's been getting a lot more

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than national media attention, so that'll be interesting.
Yeah, he's got two weeks left togo.
Put up some more stats and some more highlights to I'd say more
highlights than stats to maybe get an invite which would be
awesome. Yeah, I, I think he's good
enough to win it. And I and I, it's interesting to
see like he's doing a lot more like we talked about to be on
the Pat Mack show. He's doing a lot more of the

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national media. So they're letting him get out
there and, and kind of promote himself.
There's national media people saying, yeah, he's the best
player in the country and, you know, making a case for him.
I think I heard one guy, I'm trying to think who it was that
said that, you know, Jeremiah Love deserved A Heisman and he's
a Heisman voter. He's going to do his part.
So basically saying he's going to give Jeremiah Love a Heisman
vote. So I, I mean a invite to New

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York. I I think is really darn good.
If he gets the invite to New York, I, I love, I would love
for him to win the Heisman. I think Notre Dame missed it.
You know, we were in New York last year.
And when you're in New York, yousee the white T-shirt with the I
heart. You know NY on it.
How is there not how is there not AI heart with a #4 in it?
You know D like how is there notlike a Jeremiah love I heart.

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Or I heart JL. Yeah.
Like no, an I heart with a #4 inthe heart.
Like there should be a Jeremiah Love shirt in there.
Like missed opportunity from themarketing team.
Call me. I got all kinds of terrible
ideas. They can sell 10s of 10s of
things right they? Can sell 10s of things
collectively. So yeah, I, it's just it, it, it
feels like he's going to, they're going to do something to

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try and get him promoted the next couple of weeks.
So I, you know, give him lots oftouches, lots of carries, you
know, two things, right? Build his resume for that draft
round pick and then also give him a shot at getting that New
York invite. Yeah, yeah.
And those people are like, maybehe's going to come back next
year. He's right.
Is the #2 prospect on a lot of big boards?

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Yeah. He won't go number two overall.
No but but. He's going to be making.
He's going to have a big NFL rookie contract.
Yeah. Is he going to go top half of
the NFL draft? I think top. 16 feels like it
there'll be a team by I mean Gentry went and last year.
I think he'll be similar. A team will want him, team will

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buy it. And if you look at Twitter or X
whatever you want to call it, NFL fans are like whatever we
got to do go trade up and get this dude.
Like I've heard rumors of the Chiefs having a bad year, the
Bengals having a bad year, like trying to go add another weapon
to their offense, which is like,I hope he gets one of those
teams added down here because ofinjuries or whatever and you go
explode in the NFL with a good offensive line because yeah,

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last last you don't want to go to The Jets and have no line and
get hurt because The Jets are giving it to him 50 * a game for
no reason. Yeah, maybe he'll end up at New
England. That'll just.
Yeah, that'll just irritate the crap out of me.
Good for him. New England's going to be
drafting too late, but. Yeah, I know.
Well don't they have a ton of draft picks still stopping?
Maybe they do. Yeah, Belichick.
Here it seemed like they traded everything and and.

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I know some of the people get onthe NFL draft kick this time of
year. I'm not down there.
You got to get me at least January before I'm like, OK, now
let's let's see cuz A. You don't know anyone's drafting
B. Who's coming, who's not coming?
And I need my college show almost over.
With the extended, with the extended college football season
going into like, yeah, late January, mid January, like I

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can't even think about it till the end of January at this
point, like before I can even think about it.
So I, I, I, and I think it'll beinteresting.
Does does Love and Price both get drafted like #1 and #2 in
the running back category? Not.
I think price is this is run RB3.
I forget who was two, but yeah, he was listed as RB3 on a couple
big boards, a little lower on some others.

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Yeah. So I, I, I think it's
interesting. I think Todd Mcshay had maybe
had him three. I was thinking he had him two,
but he maybe had him three. But yeah, I mean he's he's very
like and that's the other question is will he come back
for that next year? Because we'll come back and be
the featured back, everybody. Because running back like
running back 3 sound like it goes high, but that's probably
3rd to 4th round like if we're being honest.

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Yeah, and he could probably makemore money, NIL next year at
Notre Dame than he could just RB, you know, going third round
in the NFL. Yeah, everybody is a Notre Dame
fan is all for that except IneosWilliams and maybe his parents.
Like they'd love to see Ineos because Ineos is a stud too, and
you'd love to. See right, but I think you look
at how many carries like Price has got a decent amount of
carries this year. He's not that much mine love.

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So like Ineos getting yeah. Yeah.
So anyway that that'll be a whole conversation we can have
in February after our national championship.
Yeah. All right, let's get into the
Cops 12 playoff. Frankie, I think you kind of
sort of mentioned it. There is a slight situation
where Nerdy does not get in these Cops 12 playoffs.
So I kind of want to start with that.
The most obvious way for us not to get in because obviously

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everyone in front of us keeps winning.
That needs like Oregon, Oklahoma, all of them win.
But the big one is we need TexasTech to win the Big 12.
If Texas Tech the. SEC.
Texas Tech. Texas Tech I'm sorry, I was.
Thinking you today, Texas Tech to win the Big 12, They're
sitting there at 5 right now. They probably do not fall if

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they lose the Big 12 championship behind us.
And then you've got 2, You've got the Big 12 champ that's
behind us, BYU or Utah. I think it'd be BYU in that
championship game that would automatically make it so Texas
Tech is kind of if they make theBig 12 championship, but it's
looking a lot like it right now.We need them to win it.

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If Texas Tech loses earlier, it's not as problematic because
I think they probably fall farther.
But Big 12 champ Texas Tech is what we really need.
Yeah, we need and if. Texas Tech wins the Big 12.
That basically choose it becauseI'm looking at it.
Alabama's going to play Auburn. They're playing nobody this
week. It's kind of the SEC non
conference week. It's crap, Whatever.

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It's cupcake week in the SAC. Yeah, so Alabama I do not think
is going to have any say to jumpus.
And remember you've got to be inthe top 10 for that top 12 right
now because the ACC champ is behind us and the A group of
five team. Yep.
So we've got to be inside the top ten obviously at #9 right

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now I don't see any way Alabama jumps us with a win over Auburn
unless we unless the next two weeks we use three.
Yeah, and I think it'll be interesting because I think the
other threat is Miami. Like if you look at us now and,
and this is the thing everybody wants to say, the head to head
matters. And I think it should I, I'm on

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board with the head to head matters, but I also think like
how you're trending and how you're projecting matters,
right? So, you know, if you're Syracuse
and you won your first five games and then your quarterback
got injured, I don't care who you beat those first five games.
If you're on a walk on freshman quarterback, you can't say,
well, you beat 'cause you the head to head thing gets
circular. But Miami beat Notre Dame and

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Notre Dame is looking better today than they were at the
beginning of the year. Miami fell apart in the middle
of the season. Now you can make the argument
they're coming back around. And if they and if they continue
to come back around and they getwithin that, you know, one or
two positions of us, they they could easily jump us because
they do have that head to head tiebreaker.
And I think that's what everybody's kind of losing and

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they want to look at, you know, white components and things like
this. And it'll be interesting because
we're going to think have Syracuse Pit and who else is
like. Here's the big like, yes, pit,
but Pit's next week. Yeah, whatever you do, if you're
better, probably take Miami to the point because Miami knows
that's a. Oh yeah.
Like they they want to absolutely destroy Pitt by

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literally 100 points. So that'll be a really
interesting game if Miami can actually do it or not.
But Miami's literally going to want to beat Pitt by more than
whatever we want. Yeah, exactly.
So they're going to want to literally put up 105 points on.
I'm like, Nerdusi was asking. So yeah, that would be the
really interesting one in my opinion, Pitt versus Miami.

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Yeah, and I think it's interesting.
I, I think the probability of Notre Dame getting left out is,
is maybe 15 point percent. I, I don't think it's a real
strong. I mean, I like, I like the
possibility of USC getting a winin Oregon.
No guarantee. There I I was going to say
that's a big one. And that 110 1/2 points towards
Oregon, which really I guess at Oregon it's game day.

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Oregon's looked a little sloppy the last few weeks in my
opinion, and I think US CS been getting better from what I've
seen. Obviously I haven't been able to
watch a full game, but I've beenwatching their highlights and
looks like they're getting a little bit better.
I'm maybe I'm optimistic. They've been sneaking up in the
rankings. But yeah, if we got where's USC
15? What would be absolutely huge
for us is if Miami wins this weekend doesn't look fantastic

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and USC could beat Oregon on theroad and USC could jump Miami.
That would be a big jump from 15, but Miami's there at 13.
It feels realistic if you beat atop seven team on the road,
right? Yeah, if you be a top seven team
on the road, it seems like you could jump Miami, especially if
Miami doesn't look strong against Pitt.

(26:02):
It's next week. I forget what they got this
week. It's I don't, I don't remember
either now, but yeah, if Miami looks so so in their wind and
you look good or dominant, dominant over Oregon would be
ideal. Notre Dame's got the head and I
think USC didn't play us as wellas they could have because I
think that weather, that weatherimpacted USC more than people

(26:23):
want to talk about it, right. I think US CS coach trying to
like not want to play us. I think it was just a whole lot
of. Yeah, so Miami's on the road at
Virginia Tech at noon, which would be interesting with all
the James Franklin stuff. All these guys got their new
coach in. They're going to be.
I mean, you got to impress the new coach, right?
Yeah, so I, I again, I don't think there's any chance Miami

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loses I, but you never know. I mean, we don't need Miami to
lose, but we need Miami to win by 10.
Yeah, like. Like Miami has a Sosa win and
USC has a good win or a dominantwin over Oregon would be ideal.
I mean like. If yeah, if USC could give us
that buffer in front of Miami, it would be fantastic.
Yeah, because like you said, we got head to head matters and we

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need space between US and Miami and.
Yeah, because if it comes down, if it comes down to where
Miami's 11 and we're 10, I mean,do I blame the committee if
that's what they decide? No.
But what the committee's been saying all year is like there's
a gap between Nord and mainly right now, I guess they have the
same record. But the way they've been playing
all that stuff now, if it comes down to we're comparing these
two, neck and neck, well, if they flip Miami like that's what

(27:28):
it is, like they beat us, they did.
I, I, you can't argue it. If they, if they get to the
point where they're close and they get ahead of us and we go
to Pop Tarts Bowl, which is now nicknamed the People's Champion
Bowl. I do like, Oh yeah.
So I wasn't excited about the Pop Tart Bowl after we lost A&M,
but I'm getting a little more excited now.
But yeah, I, I, you got to respect.
You don't have to like it, but you got to respect if the

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committee does bring the head tohead into play because it, it
shouldn't matter now. We just need to keep separation.
So how do we do that? We need style points, we need
big victories and we need a little bit of help from our
friends Right now. Our friend is USC this week.
We need help from USC this week.That would be that would be big.
And I really we need A and M to win the SEC.

(28:11):
Like if if A and M goes undefeated, wins the SEC and we
can hang our hat on, yeah, we got this lost to A&M, but it was
one point to the SEC champion, undefeated SEC champion, who was
because A&M, if they do that should finish #2 in the country.
And then whoever wins the Big 10championship should finish

(28:31):
number one. I think it'll be an interesting
conversation. Like how far does the Big 10
champion lose? I, I know I've been calling for
the Purdue upset over or IU realistically not going to
happen, even though I think there's a probability.
I think Michigan beating Ohio State is a better probability,
but I'm I'm not guaranteeing that either.

(28:52):
I wouldn't, wouldn't bet on either one of those.
But let's just assume for the conversation today, IU and Ohio
State both go to the Big 10 championship as they should.
They went out their season, finished out their season.
How far does the loser drop? You know.
You wouldn't think very far. In a close game, no.
But let's let's just say IU was better than I anticipate and
they blow the doors off of Ohio State by 2128 points how?

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Or vice versa? Like if it's a 2128 point how?
I still think they're hosting a first round game.
I don't think they fall outside the top 8.
Both are undefeated. They'll be in the top 6.
Yeah, regardless of margin of victory.
Yeah. Because the other thing about
got to remember, he's going to want to put up 100 on the Ohio
State, whether he can or it's. Just one of those like I don't

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see it. I'm going to say 99% chance it's
less than A2 score game, but theIT I don't think they're going
to get dropped. But outside the top 6, I really
think Big 10 champ and SEC champand runners up.
Texas Tech's the only one that intrigues me being at 5.
Could they sneak into that four spot or the SEC champ?

(30:02):
I think the Big 10 and Big 10 runner bring it.
That was top 2. Texas Tech might be the one that
can sneak into that four spot. See I here's how I think it is.
I think big 10 SEC champion are one and two.
Yeah. That's a lot regardless of of
point spread, those two guys areone and two.
If it's close in the SEC Championship or it's close in

(30:25):
the Big 10 championship, one of those two teams will get 3 and I
think Texas Tech could slide into four.
And then I mean, if I lost the SEC championship, you know, and
I got it and I got a choice between a first round buy in the
home playoff game, boy, that's atough decision.
I might want that home playoff game, you know, or if I'm like

(30:45):
like I because the atmosphere, but there's also a lot something
to be said about the rest. But you look at how it didn't
work last year in the momentum. Yeah, but I think last year all
said a big factor in how the seating was, you didn't have the
really top 4 yet. So it was, it was different,
definitely. But yeah, I, I think that I

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think Texas Tech could find itself in the 4th, 3rd or 4th
spot. And I, I, I think highest, if
they won the Big 12, I think they could see themselves slide
up to three at the highest. I mean that that's.
Yeah, no, other than that, that's I.
Don't think that's probable. I don't think that's probable.
I think they could slide up as high as 3.
I think they realistic end up at4:00 and I think the loser of

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the either the SEC or the big 10slides to five.
I don't know which one. It'll depend on how the games
play out, but I think that's where you find find it.
I could also see the committee movement both of them to 5:00
and 6:00, but I seems seems punitive to like take an SEC
team that's outside the SEC championship and let them have
the. Buy that's.

(31:47):
Spot for like I just don't see that happening like you can't
put a team that didn't make the championship ahead of a team
that that played the championship and lost.
So it'll be our see how the committee plays on that one.
And yeah, I I'm with you. I think it Notre Dame, I felt
after we lost to A and MA home playoff game was off the table

(32:07):
anyway, yeah, I got a little bitof hope because we're right
there on the bubble that like ifeverything goes right, we could
sneak in and and here's the other thing.
The conspiracy theory hack comeson.
I think Texas Tech Stadium isn'tvery big.
I think it seats like 50,000. Oh yeah, I don't think it's
like. Love it, it's hard to get to.

(32:28):
It's hard to get to. It doesn't seat a lot.
There's high school stadiums that seat more people than I
think Texas Tech does like, which is crazy.
And I'd have to double check that stat.
So I again, I think you'd ratherput them at four and not have
them host a first round game andthen and then have a Notre Dame
or somebody sliding. That but for sure I don't want
IU hosting either. Then in that state you want IU
to have to buy and then you you kick out the SEC runner up.

(32:52):
Yeah. Would you rather?
Would you rather? Have A&M or Georgia.
A&M or Georgia or Alabama host over IU?
Absolutely, because IU 655 or 60,000 and you know, but I so
and Notre Dame is more attractive from the 85,000
standpoint. However, I think the a lot of
complaints about how cold it waslast year and people not wanting

(33:13):
to come to Notre Dame and that'snot being talked about in the
media. But there was a lot of talk
about that last January and I heard that like conference, you
know, presidents and things that.
So I think Notre Dame getting a home playoff game there.
There's a lot of auxiliary factors at play that's going to
keep us from being a home playoff game.
I think they'd rather have us onthe road or they'd rather have

(33:34):
us have a buy as opposed to having a home playoff game.
But we'll see. I mean, we'll just see how it
shakes out. Like I said, if we get a little
help from Oregon this week, things could be good.
And hey, maybe, maybe I think Georgia Tech, Georgia still
play. Maybe Georgia Tech finds a.
Way that would be that would be that would be the one that could
shake it up the most, in my opinion.
You have Georgia Tech and and beat Georgia 'cause I Georgia

(33:55):
Tech. I mean that that was, what was
it 4 overtime last year like it was?
Yeah, it was a close game last year.
Yeah, it, it wasn't a it wasn't a cakewalk it, but Georgia
hasn't George has been still damn good.
Like they've been good, but theyhaven't been the dominant George
they were 3-4 years ago kind of a thing.
So. Yeah, Hanes King.
I mean, if he can walk, he can. Georgia Tech will run 50 times.

(34:19):
He's a baller. He he was allowed.
So yeah. Anything else on the CFP
conversation side? I don't think in the CFPI just
kind of got one last wrapping uppoint all.
Right. What's What's your last?
Here's my here's my Jeremiah Love promo third advance here.
They're going to be at the state.
They're going to be at home. Appreciate every last moment
you're going to have watching this guy because in 5-10 years

(34:42):
you're going to be sitting on YouTube Jeremiah Love nerd aim
highlights. How's you're going to be doing?
Because you know what, they wereawesome.
Every moment's awesome. Going showing up to the
statement being like, you know what, that dude's going to get
the football today and he's goodat football, did go do something
I didn't think was possible. Yeah.
It was awesome. Yeah.
So be loud if you're at the game.
We're gonna be there. I'm looking for it.

(35:02):
It's gonna be a great game. If you remember all weekend,
like going into your weekend, all you need is love.
All you need is. Love Yeah, that's all you need.
And go, go on Heisman fan vote, vote, vote.
Create fake accounts on Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook, whatever you
got to do. I don't know if that does
anything whatsoever. But I think the winner of the

(35:23):
fan vote actually gets one vote toward the Heisman.
Interesting. So, yeah, like, like, I don't
know that's going to sway the decision.
I mean, but showing some love dojust show love some love.
I mean, oh, you need. Yeah.
And I think the other thing I wanted to cover is we had this
issue earlier in the year and I feel bad because it we got to

(35:44):
talk about Coach Freeman's recent press conference.
Oh, you know, early in the year,we kept telling Coach Freeman,
sorry, we didn't have time to get to you.
And, and and I feel like this ison us.
And he hasn't tried, even hadn'teven tried to call in here
recently. But Coach Freeman said he didn't
have anybody to talk to. So Coach Freeman, I'm gonna, I'm
gonna let you know if you're listening.

(36:04):
I'm opening it back up. You call us anytime and we will.
We will. We'll talk.
We'll take the phone call. Yes, we'll.
Even we'll make sure we get you on.
We'll even. We'll even pod right there on
the spot if that's what you want.
Open, open, invite you just you hit us up on.
It's on us, it's on us. We're here for you.
We care. So.
Anyway. Sorry about that, Coach.

(36:26):
Yeah. It won't happen again, we
promise. So anything else I I think it's
kind of, you know, it's going tobe I'm looking forward to senior
night for a whole lot of different reasons.
I love senior night. It's like service Academy senior
night, like those are those are some of my favorite games and
then I always love the big games.
You know, so I'm. On the annual.
And yeah, it's hard to believe we're at the end of the last

(36:48):
home game of the 2025 season. I know.
And going to miss it. I'm, I'm hopeful we'll get lucky
and things will bounce our way and we'll get that that home
playoff game because that atmosphere is freaking electric.
But yeah, not counting on it. Yeah.
So I think it's going to wrap usup this weekend for Senior Night
and we're going to go enjoy, go get ready.

(37:09):
We got a couple days for the game, but we're going to enjoy
the game. If you're going to be there,
have a great time. It's going to be great.
Yeah, and as always, go Irish. Go Irish.