Welcome to Andy Staples on three.

I am still in South Bend, spend some time with Marcus Freeman, the Notre Dame coach on Monday morning.

Very instructive interview and just fascinating to watch as a team tries to figure out how to come back from a gut punch.

And if you remember correctly, this is what Ohio State was doing Saturday night.

Hey, Alabama, Alabama, Alabama, Alabama, Alabama, Alabama, Alabama, Alabama, go to Seattle. So that's right. So that's Ryan Day celebrating after Ohio State ripped Notre Dame's collective heart out of its chest.

You'll hear more about Ryan Day when we get to our Dear Andy segment because there's still some questions lingering from how Ryan Day responded to Lou Holtz and just the sheer vitriol from Ryan Day and that and why he did that.

But we'll get to that in a bit.

Let's talk more about Notre Dame, which, by the way, has to turn around and go play Duke, which is one of the

hottest teams in the country, led by Mike Elko, who has done a phenomenal job there, former

Notre Dame defensive coordinator, Mike Elko, by the way. And Notre Dame's got to get this figured out,

because this is their season, again, if they want to make the playoff, they can't lose again.

They can make the playoff at 11 and 1.

Their schedule is good enough.

Thanks to Duke, thanks to USC.

If Clemson can wind up continuing to win with the exception of the Notre Dame game,

there's a chance that Notre Dame can make this happen still.

If they play the way they did Saturday, there's a good chance they can make it happen.

I mean, if you look at no turnovers, no penalties, Marcus Freeman was going over this in his press conference on Monday,

176 yards. I believe they averaged five yards of carry against Ohio State.

They had statistically a game that you'd think, if you just looked at it,

you'd say they won the game.

So the fact that it was ripped away from them at the last second, that's a lot to process.

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