For Tim O'Malley and John Bryce, I'm Tim Priester, and this is Irish Illustrated Insider Monday, November 18th.

Week number 11 for Nordamer, I should say game number 11 for the Fighting Irish in an unusual set of circumstances.

A hundred years after the four horsemen played against Army and the polo grounds,

going back to Yankee Stadium to play Army, a 9-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.

Nine and-no.

No, they had to be the week off.

It feels like they should be 10-0, but they're not.

I know.

Well, their season really really

stretches out a nine and all army football team shooting to go unscathed through a season for the

first time since it's nineteen forty nine they've won 13 in a row dating back to last year and

marcus freeman said today when we went to his 1230 eastern time press conference that

this is a it's a really good it's a physical

football team I you know it's not and he said this it's not Navy 2.0 there's a different approach

they don't throw it as much as Navy does but they're more physical team and it starts up front

where their offensive and defensive lines are very physical.

Yeah, I've been looking forward to this one for a little while, at least since the Navy game, when I realized how well Notre Dame could defend the option.

I think it's going to be, I know it's not the actual Navy offense, but there's a lot you can take from it after talking to Al Golden a couple times about defending triple option offenses and option based offenses. I think the last few weeks has been a

march to Army and USC. Florida State had no chance. Virginia had very little chance. And I think it might be

good that Notre Dame struggled intermittently offensively or for the bulk of the first half against

Virginia. There's a lot to clean up. If you did that against Army, you would not get,

first of all, you would not get 10 first half possessions. If you did that against Army,

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