This is Ivers Old Strud Insider. It's October 6th with Tim O'Malley and Pete Samson. I'm Tim Priester.

And we start the preview of Notre Dame, Florida State. We don't have the typical recap of the previous week's game.

It'll be three weeks between games for Notre Dame.

They scrimmaged on Sunday.

Brian Kelly talked about wanting to get his defense tackling

and getting the timing between his starting quarterback Ian Book and the receiving

core.

But it's still a little bit disjointed because seven players remained in isolation

four in quarantine as of Monday.

Norden gets Kyle Hamilton, Kevin Austin, Ben Scronic back, but still a bit of a disjointed

Nordic football team heading into Florida State Week.

It's been 17 days since we've had something to talk about on the field.

So, you know, there was no chance they could completely return to normalcy, but I thought

Brian Kelly made a good point.

Like, look, this is, we've got to treat his business as usual because unless you're missing

your offensive line in an Ian book, you can go play.

You honestly can go play.

Or I guess your entire defensive line.

You can go play football. And that where notre dame is right now they're they're healthy enough to play

florida state i don't want to harp on notre dame's covid issues but i remain shocked that

wake forest and south florida and florida state duke and nobody else has had any

covid issues that stopped them from playing football this year. It's just strange to me.

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