Welcome to another edition of Irish Illustrated Insider. It is Wednesday, November 26th, day before Thanksgiving. I'm Tim O'Malley, joined by Tim Priester of Irish Illustrated, Pete Stamson, the Athletic. We're rolling three deep, like the Vikings of the mid-90s, wide receiver, core guys. I always get some Jake Reed references in any time you can on a podcast. Good news for Norden

basketball we'll start with and cover them for 30 seconds. They are one and one on the meaningful

games of the season, winning Vegas yesterday against Rutgers. Houston, number one

defense of the country coming up. Should be a hoot to watch that one today. What could go wrong?

I don't know. If Notre Dame

fares well on that one, that would be a good job. But that's kind of, you would expect it, one and two, leaving Vegas when you felt, if you had known Kansas, Houston and Rutgers. So probably did their best there. More important news, I think, for Notre Dame fans at this juncture of November is new playoff rankings are out. No surprise that Notre Dame stayed at number nine.

I wanted to get your guys' opinion on, I guess Miami has moved six spots up to number 12 at this point since the original rankings came out and we'll get into some chaos that is needed. But just your initial response to the rankings, I guess there weren't as many surprises this time around. Yeah, I mean, I don't think anything jumped out, although I didn't

look at it real closely. I looked at where to see where Nordame was and the particulars around them.

Yeah, Miami moved up. You know, you just wonder, like, man, I, I, I do. I have, I have committee fatigue from everybody being upset about everybody every week,

no matter what.

Man, I mean, it's all really exciting.

And I think it's really great for the sport.

But of course, there's always a flip side to it.

And that is just the constant anger.

And again, I have to say, Tim, Danny Canal, please save us all and volunteer.

Please volunteer to be on the committee every year because you have, he has every answer every

week. He's so, he's so tremendous at it i i can't believe

that they haven't reached out to him and say danny we've got we've got to have you on the committee

to save us from embarrassing ourselves every week man hayes caught the stray last week or

two days ago last week it was two days ago this was danny cannell here Here's the good news about this. I like to go on the Connell show quite a bit and I enjoy it and I enjoy our banter. But I do a good job of not watching what people talk about the college football playoff rankings. Because if I did, I would be very upset too. It is, Tim, this is the new stay off the message board during the games.

Stay off Twitter during college football playoff holes.

I probably have like about a dozen of those.

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