Notre Dame is not going down to Georgia, but they're going down to take them on, obviously, at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. It is one of the college football playoff games. I do feel bad for Oklahoma Navy, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, Texas Tech, Arkansas, Syracuse, Washington State, A&M, USC, UConn, North Carolina, Boston College, Nebraska, Louisiana, TCU, Iowa State, Miami, et cetera, et cetera.

Why you ask? Because those are all teams that have bowl games taking place over the course of the weekend.

And I do enjoy bowl season.

But the expanded college football playoff and the increased number of games and rounds of it,

it does feel like it has made all bowl games, not including Pop-Tarts, like almost invisible.

You just don't hear nor talk about them because there is so much attention,

understandably and rightly so, on what's going to be taking place in these games. Joining us now in the Express Pro Tire and Auto Guest Line, a guy that's

become almost a pseudo member of the companies. As a matter of fact, Tom Noy from the South Bend

Tribune to talk about the Irish and their matchup with Georgia. Tom, first off, happy

holidays. Appreciate the time. I know it's a busy time.

Let's get right to this, and that is, let's recap first off, just the Indiana game in general.

You know, I thought that was one of those that you had kind of predicted going into it, I think,

that you thought Notre Dame's focus was pretty locked in. It appeared that way.

Did Indiana also fall victim a little bit to Kurt Signetti, like going one too many

times to the well with the IU hype train?

Absolutely.

And if you're going to hype it up the way Kurt Signetti hyped it up, even in the hours before the game on game day, and saying what he said about beating top 25 teams, guess what?

You better freaking back it up.

And when Curtis Rourke threw that pick for that Xavier Wadscott and Jeremiah, I love, went 98 yards on the second play or the first play after that you're basically like all right

time to start playing for new orleans i mean it was an absolute no show all the way around by

indiana and kirk signetti like yeah that's great we understand that you won and you were successful

at other stops but this is really big boy football and he didn't wear his big boy pants on Friday night.

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