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I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman.

Bruce, I know I'm doing my best right now to sound very peppy, but that is not an indicator of my level of exhaustion at this moment.

Stu, you make one road trip and all of a sudden now you're gassed.

I do this every week.

I know.

Well, and I used to do it every week.

When you don't travel that frequently, it really, it's really jarring.

It really takes a toll on your body.

But I will say, it's funny that we just had that conversation last week about covering games and seeing less football.

I forgot when you cover a Notre Dame game and you stay in Chicago, two hours there and back,

especially at night game coming back.

That is your whole day.

But I got to say, I don't know when the last time you went to a game at Notre Dame was.

For me, it had been a long time. And the stadium is just completely different, and I was just blown away. That place is now, it was always cool. Don't get me wrong, Notre Dame Stadium is always a really cool and historic place to go. But now it's just a spectacular fan experience. Okay, so let's get on the fields, Stu. Yeah. We talked a lot about USC and a little bit about Notre Dame last week.

I talked a lot about both with our friend John Walters.

But you were holding out hope on USC.

You were high on their D-line.

You were talking them up.

And I had not been high on them.

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