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IB Nation Sportsbeat: College Football Officiating And Chris Ash - Shamrock Up/Shamrock Down

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Sports, Nfl Draft, Football, Ncaa Team, Big Ten, Notre Dame

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Irish Breakdown does our weekly Shamrock Up/Shamrock Down stock check of Notre Dame football on today's show

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0:00.0

Welcome to the show. It's Tuesday.

0:19.3

I'm glad to have you with us here today along with Trevor Trowbridge. I am Sean Stiers. It's a beautiful day outside once again. And we're getting ever so closer to Notre Dame and USC. Trevor, you know, like we talk about this game as a rivalry, obviously, and it's been played for, you know, going on 100 years at this point.

0:44.3

Like, when it comes to Notre Dame, like, does this get your juices flowing as much as any, you know, like maybe with the exception of just the season opener because

0:54.4

we've been waiting so long, like, how fired up does Notre Dame USC get you? Oh, I get

1:00.1

absolutely juiced, man. I mean, absolutely juiced. Look, Notre Dame has very, very few rivalries

1:06.3

anymore where it's just that traditional, they don't like us, we don't like them, type of games.

1:11.4

And as cool as all the tradition is at Notre Dame, I don't want every single rival to be,

1:16.6

hey, let's shake hands after the game and sing each other's al-a-mabom.

1:21.0

There is a facet of like, I just like-

1:23.2

Some would prefer it if you never sung each other's alma mater, right?

1:27.6

Hey, that's just me, you know, but I do enjoy the facet.

1:33.5

Like, because think about some of the best rivalries in college football.

1:35.8

People talk about the game, Michigan, Ohio State, you know, at the Iron Bowl,

1:40.4

Alabama, Auburn.

1:42.2

You got the Red River shootout that we just watched.

1:44.4

They're not singing each other's alma maters at the end of the game.

1:48.5

No, no.

1:49.6

A rivalry to me means more than just you played a lot.

1:54.2

There's something to it.

1:55.6

The fan bases are into it.

1:57.3

With all due respect to some of Notre Dame's previous rivals, I mean, not that I, I don't know if I've ever met a Boston college football fan, but like I know some people say that it's a big rivalry, but I guess I'll find out I'm going out to cover the game in November, so I'll get to meet a lot of Irish Catholics out there in Boston. You know, I think that that has a lot to do with it and, you know, step child and the whole thing. But yeah, yeah. I was actually just, I saw something. I don't know

2:23.0

where this came from, but someone on one of the social media platforms was really disappointed in

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