You're listening to Irish Illustrated Insider.

It's Thursday, November 5th.

Tim Preeza with Tim O'Malley and Pete Sampson from the Athletic.

And we got a ball game this Saturday, 7.30 Saturday night, Notre Dame Stadium.

Boy, you sure wish you could have a full house to really experience it all

and to have a full media crew there as well.

Full press points. That would be good too, but we won't have that opportunity. And so it's

it's number four, Notre Dame, number one, Clemson, Nordame still, I believe, a five and a half

point underdog.

The over-under-timp keeps going down, which I think is probably the better play of those two.

But like we've analyzed this.

We've talked about.

We've asked Brian Kelly questions about how you're going to approach things offensively.

It was my question to him today and then a follow-up

question along those lines and it was basically like why are you guys asking me whether we're going

to run the football and try to possess the football because that's what we do this year and I get

that but you know you ask questions so you get a quote and then you use that quote to make a story

and he helped make a story for us here this morning but uh this afternoon but um i don't know i

you know as the game gets closer certainly as the questions on our podcast on monday after my

column on sunday was that you know why even bother playing the game but as i've studied clemson

this week i you know i really think and i've said it several times, they're vulnerable.

And I really think that if Ian Book plays a really, really well-played football game for Notre Dame and everything else falls in a place, I think they have a chance.

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