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Welcome back, everybody, to another edition of Irish Illustrated Insider.

I'm Tim Preacher, or Tim O'Malley from Irish Illustrated, and we are joined by Pete Sampson of the Athletic.

It's Thursday, October 5th.

We are two days in an afternoon and evening away from Notre Dame taking on Louisville at Louisville.

Notre Dame is a six-point favorite.

They have some players returning, which is exactly what they need.

Actually, all three who are pass catchers, two are whiteouts.

Jaden Thomas and Jaden Greathouse are expected back from hamstring injuries.

And then Eli Rairdon is expected to make his first appearance in a game situation this year.

So guys, Nordheim is six-point favorite.

Louisville, a dangerous team because of the offensive weapons that they have the athleticism

but i would imagine the the nerd name's going to try to put a lot of pressure on jack plumber

force them to be one dimensional which we talked about with with Marcus freeman and with regard to

their running a game whoever said it's a marathon, not a sprint, left half of it out,

because for eight weeks it's both a marathon and feels like a sprint right here for

Notre Dame.

And this is in the, this is the tail end of it.

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