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I'm Tim Priester with Tim O'Malley from Irish Illustrated, joined by Pete Sampson of the athletic.

We are a couple days removed from Notre Dame playing in game number two of the 2020 season.

Tennessee State visits Notre Dame Stadium with their rich history.

We'll talk about that a little bit, why Tennessee State, a very, very rich history of

football at Tennessee State with some great players that went on to play in the NFL.

But before we get into Tennessee State, and I don't imagine a whole lot of our listeners

are going to buy into

their history or how good they might be on Saturday, and they're in trouble Saturday.

I'll guarantee you that.

But we did just meet with Marcus Freeman for about 15 minutes, our weekly Thursday Zoom meeting

with him.

Nothing earth-shattering coming out of there. We did find out that

Eli Raritan will not play again in game two, expect him back in a couple of weeks. But guys,

anything from Marcus Freeman? We talked about Tobias Merriweather, how he's practiced very well,

some other things that Marcus Freeman discuss that are at the front burner here in our conversation.

I think Pete's question, actually, I'm going to jump in for Pete. Pete's question about the 12 package, 12 personnel.

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