Welcome back to another special edition of Irish Illustrated Insider, where we focus on the last night's release of the college football playoff rankings.

I'm Tim O'Malley, joined by Tim Priester and Drew Mentock of Irish Illustrated.

John Bryce is en route to New York City for this week's game between Notre Dame and Army.

And guys, not a lot of surprises this time

through. I think that's kind of reserved for the first one and some overreactions on the second.

Not to say we agree with where people are, but at this point, Priestry, if you remember last

week, we were talking about how in the world is Penn State here and why is Texas there and who's left

out. The movement seemed pretty standard to me.

You could forecast a lot of what happened,

whether you agree or not.

Yeah, and I mean, look, and Texas is going to,

Texas and Penn State are going to have opportunities to prove or disprove themselves coming up.

And I think Penn State of Minnesota this weekend is an interesting one.

But I had thought, I think I did.

I wrote it in my point after on Sunday that Nortem would definitely move up to

seventh and probably could move up to six.

It still leaves them in a eight-slot hosting, or I guess moves them up to an eight-slot

hosting. When you see the name Alabama across from them, it strikes a little fear in your

heart. But this isn't, you know, I mean, I think I would be really interested to see that matchup in Notre Dame Stadium.

And so there were some speculation, Tim, about the point spread for that game.

And even that indicated it's a promising matchup for Notre Dame.

Yeah, Drew brought this to our attention.

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