Merry Christmas, everybody, and welcome to another edition of Irish Illustrated Insider.

I'm Tim Preister, Tim O'Malley from Irish Illustrated.

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Also does some work for Irish Illustrated.

And Pete Sampson of the Athletic, Notre Dame 2717 victory over Indiana and the Friday night

playoff game in Nordame Stadium.

We all know it wasn't nearly that close.

Credit to Indiana for hanging in there, but man, the first 55 minutes were all Notre Dame.

We will get to the news.

There is news about Riley Mills and his injury that he suffered against Indiana.

We'll get to that in a bit.

But, guys, Nordaam should have scored. It should have been the ninth game in a row that

Nordame scored in the 30s, which would have equaled what Charlie Weiss's 2015 did.

Could have actually been in the 40s, quite frankly, if they had taken advantage of their early

field position at the start of the second half.

But it was thorough.

Nordame did what they need to do and prove the point that they were.

They wanted to show that they were the more physical team, and they certainly did that.

I'd say Xavier Watson's pick and Jeremiah Love's run back-to-back is the most definitive.

Well, that's it moment for a 7-0 game you will ever have in a playoff situation because Indiana needed that early pick.

They got the early pick.

And we have a question on this later, but the fact that Xavier Watts stepped up.

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