You are listening to Irish Illustrated Insider from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

I'm Tim Priester with Tim O'Malley from Irish Illustrated.

John Bryce is here from Football Scoop and Pete Sampson from the Athletic.

We are all gathered in the La Meridian Hotel, which is the Media hotel for the 91st annual Orange Bowl,

Notre Dame Penn State teed up tomorrow, January 9th, 730 kickoff time.

Notre Dame a one and a half point favorite over Penn State.

I think it's a very equally matched game and something that James Franklin said, I think, rings true. And that is the

two teams are very similar in terms of, you know, emphasis on running the football. And then statistically,

the turnover margin is, Nordame is quite a bit better there. But Penn State is among the best. Guys, we had a

press conference with Marcus Freeman and James Franklin earlier today. Anything you guys

want to start with there? Otherwise, we'll jump into talking about the matchups between Notre Dame

and Penn State. The only thing I, in terms of, you know, between the lines,

I thought it was interesting when Freeman mentioned. He finally said the coaching staff was just a little

bit behind and they're using these next 24 hours to continue preparation. I don't think the hay

is ever truly in the barn for those guys, but maybe a little bit more so with the quick turnaround.

I know it's a seven-day turnaround, but the travel and everything after the Sugar Bowl found that interesting. I don't think I've heard him say that

before that we will be using every last minute of these 24 hours to prepare for a football game.

Yeah, definitely. It struck me as like there was a difference between the two days and not

that Penn State had and that Notre Dame didn't

you know it's it and I agree with O'Malley it's like I think we all sort of speak

Freeman at this point like that was a little bit different um than usual you know from an injury

point of view Marcus Freeman said Jeremiah love, be good to go.

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