Welcome to your official start to the weekend.

It's IP countdown to kickoff, along with Vince Vidario.

I'm Sean Steyers, a fighting Irish, of course, in New Jersey this weekend.

Ooh, a little flipparoo on the screen.

Taking on Navy.

Meanwhile, full effect follows in full effect here in South Bend, Vince.

I mean, like the leaves on the trees are all the great shades of red and orange and yellow. I don't know about you. I've got my

sweatshirt on today, but like this is my favorite time of year. Just from a like going outside and

like what it looks like outside. I hope the leaves hang around for two weeks when we're up there in the stadium

when Notre Dame is home again, because, like, that is the best view. I don't know if they,

like, I don't know, did it feel like the leaves, like they hung on a little bit later this,

like it started to turn maybe a little bit later? You know, it's so hard because, like,

football season goes by so fast that, it's so hard because, like, football season goes by so

fast that, you know, it's hard for me to keep track of, like, what's early, what's not early.

You know what I mean?

Football season goes by pretty fast. You better stop and look around once in a while.

Thanks, Ferris. You're not wrong.

Last time we were up in Notre Dame Stadium, now I wasn't there the last home game, but it didn't seem to me that the leaves were really quite turning yet.

And now we've got kind of this stretch of away games and by weeks and things like that where it's like, okay, I bet you the next time we're up there, we're going to see something pretty

spectacular, you know, for the Florida State game.

I believe that's the next thing pretty green the last, for the Stanford game.

Right.

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