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Instant Analysis: Preparing for the First Round of the CFP Against Indiana

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🗓️ 15 December 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Want more Notre Dame coverage? Check us out on our main website: https://247sports.com/college/notre-dame/ Irish Illustrated Insider: https://open.spotify.com/show/01Txd706SjsgvM0cm0UXuM Follow us on Twitter! https://x.com/irishillustratd Follow us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/irishillustrated Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/irish_illustrated/ Irish Illustrated's Tim Prister and Tim O'Malley are joined by FootballScoop's national college football writer and Irish Illustrated Contributor John Brice, as they react to what they heard during Notre Dame Head Football Coach Marcus Freeman's Press Conference as the Irish prepare for the opening round of the College Football Playoff. As always, Instant Analysis is brought to you by the RVMH Hall of Fame, located in Elkhart, Indiana. #instantanalysis #notredamefootball #notredame #goirish #collegefootball

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0:00.0

Welcome to Irish Illustrated analysis.

0:05.0

I'm Tim O'Malley with Tim Priester of Irish Illustrated.

0:07.0

John Bryce of Football Scoop and this is the RV Manufactured Housing Hall of Fame.

0:11.0

Instant Analysis.

0:12.0

Marcus Freeman.

0:14.0

Sunday Press conference.

0:15.0

We are joking in there.

0:16.0

If this was for the Sun Bowl, there wouldn't be as many people showing up for that Sunday press conference.

0:19.0

But it's for the playoffs.

0:20.0

They have moved their week up logically. Of course, the game was on

0:22.3

Friday. Norame Freeman mentioned will practice in the morning to accommodate finals, Monday, Tuesday,

0:27.3

Wednesday. They'll go back to the regular schedule on Thursday, which becomes a Friday.

0:30.4

As convolut as that gets, they know what they're doing. They've had this plan for a very long time.

0:34.4

And crucial to it, Howard Cross is expected, or we'll be back. Jeremiah Love will be back

0:38.7

already. He never left all of them for that first half. And Devin Ford, after a long absence,

0:42.4

we'll be back from special teams. Kingston Villiamu, Asa, the player of note that will be out.

0:48.1

And Marcus Freeman did say Mitch Dieter is healthier than he's been and had a couple good weeks

0:52.2

of practice. Well, I mean, that's a great news about Mitch Jeter, but we've heard that he's been healthy for a while too.

0:57.0

But Marcus Freeman talked about doing a lot of live stuff with him more than they normally would,

1:03.1

which I think is really, really important, whether it's crowd noise or whatever you do,

1:07.4

you have to put them in those live situations.

1:10.3

I believe he's completely healthy physically.

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