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Welcome back, Notre Dame fans, to another edition of Irish Illustrated Insider.

It's Monday, September 11th.

I'm Tim Priest and Tim O'Malley of Irish Illustrator.

We are joined by John Bryce of Football Scoop.

And Notre Dame is a couple days removed from a 45 to 24. I got the score right now,

45 to 24 victory over NC State. That's a deceiving score. It was closer than that, but

Notre Dame, Nordame was better in sudden change at the end of the game in the fourth quarter than

NC State was and came out with a victory. Guys jump in. We talked with Marcus Freeman for about a half hour today, wrapping up NC

State, slight look ahead to central Michigan, and even slighter look ahead to Ohio State.

Tim, how often do you think you can say it was closer than that than the score indicates

when the other team got closer because of a last minute garbage touchdown too?

Like they were up 45 to 17 on this team.

It should have been a four touchdown game.

But you're right.

At one point in the third quarter, late in the third quarter, 2417, Sam Hartman fumbles.

And you start thinking to yourself, Notre Dame has controlled this game the entire time.

It would be a real shame if this game is tied going into the fourth quarter and right away.

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