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It is Monday, September 5th.

Happy Labor Day to everybody.

We're a couple days now removed from our trip to Columbus, Ohio, Notre Dame,

put up a heck of a fight, and they were in charge,

or they were certainly in the lead and looking like they were on top of the situation into the third quarter.

I don't know about you guys, but I mean, I know it's kind of hard to hear the crowd from

our vantage point, but it seemed like it got pretty quiet there in Ohio Stadium.

But the Buckeyes prevail with a couple

long touchdown drives and a 2110 victory over number

five Notre Dame.

Tim, just some thoughts on what transpired in Ohio

stadium this weekend.

Yeah, as an aside, I was told the crowd was great.

You can't hear it all in there.

It's like when Notre Dame doesn't open the windows, which they've kind of come around to and you can hear the crowd noise. It's really rough to not hear the crowd noise when you know it's just rocking out there. But I think at some point during this game, I thought, you know, they've got to be able to pull this out because they can play with them. It wasn't one of those things where against Nebraska,

they had a punt return touchdown and a kick return touchdown to stay with number one,

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