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Welcome back, everybody, to Irish Illustrated insider.

Tim Prester, Tim O'Malley from Irish Illustrated.

Pete Sampson joins us from The Athletic,

and we are two days away from Notre Dame hosting Clemson for the first time in two years.

The magnitude of the game is not quite what it was a couple years ago,

but Clemson ranked number four in this week's first college football playoff rankings.

The weather that we've heard about is,

we're going to continue to monitor that because I've heard some things here recently to say that the,

the storm will blow through.

The wind will dissipate by the time game starts.

But the over underline dropped to 44.5.

Nordheim is a three and a half point underdog.

And how do you guys see this game?

Three and a half makes sense.

I don't want to jump on a question, but from the point of view that we have known since, I mean, August, this was not a big spread, right? It has never been a big spread.

Notre Dame is better than they showed against Stanford and Marshall, but are they as good as these top six teams? Let's throw Clemson in the top six,

any way you want to shuffle them up.

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