Welcome back to Irish Illustrated Insider. It is Thursday, May 7th. I'm Tim O'Malley joined today by Drew Mentock of Irish Illustrated and John Bryce of USA Today. And guys, this ended up being a timely podcast because we have not only bedable football lines with Notre Dame and rival Miami, but also Notre Dame today announced

their home schedule kickoff times and for the Shamrock series.

And J.B., as you hinted at, I believe last week that Wisconsin games started sneaking into

the nighttime, primetime, 730 slot, and that's exactly where it was announced today.

Yeah, we noted that last week on the pod and got some chuckles out of you all, but

hadn't mentioned that NBC didn't really care that it would be going up against, I guess,

Ole Miss and Louisville in a neutral site game.

It will take the Notre Dame brand and the Lambeau field iconic status and Wisconsin trying to save Luke Fickle's job and roll with the punches on that weekend.

So smart choice.

They'll have baseball presumably, as I said last week, playoff race baseball game leading into it.

So anyway, there we are.

Yeah, there will be a good amount of drama, even if it spreads pretty significant between, I mean, it's still Marcus going against Luke Fickle, and we know there's not, that's not the most amicable relationship given the long history. So there's going to be a lot of things they're able to promote and build up for that game, even if Nardame's going to be favored by three scores, probably. Primetime road again. I guess Navy wasn't necessarily prime time, but not for people at home. But J.B., your lament, or not your lament, Marcus Freeman's lament is that this team keeps starting on the road or neutral evening kickoffs. But this is good. And you know what? With Old Miss and Louisville,

I agree with NBC. If that was Old Miss and LSU and Lane Kiffin, you won't want to go against it. But Old Miss and Louisville, two college football fans turn on the TV. You're going to Lambeau Field to watch Norden, Wisconsin, too. So I think that's a pretty good call. The news, the surprise for me was three home primetime kickoffs adding SMU.

We kind of, I think we surmised on the podcast. The surprise for me was three home primetime kickoffs adding SMU.

We kind of, I think we surmised on the podcast.

Michigan State, mid-September would be the other for a brand name.

Miami was a given and already announced.

An SMU on senior night.

That is going to be cold, potentially.

Senior night at SMU, but SMU guys, Drew, we talked about this before before they really want to make a showcase game for themselves they got it notre name at night so if SMU's old nine and one going

into that SMU has a shot now yeah definitely and we're i mean we're used to i mean last year senior day

nordine 1 70 to 7 so we're going to have a completely different experience with a night game. I think,

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