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

It is Thursday, January 11th.

And it is a two-man booth again, but it's Pete Sampson from the Athletic joining myself,

Tim Priester, for Irish Illustrated Insider.

We have some ton of Nordame news in terms of recruits committing, grad transfers coming

Nord Ames way, Rod Hurd the second from Northwestern, Jaden Harrison, from Marshall.

But before we get into all of that, Pete, let's wrap up

the college football season, the 2023 college football season. Michigan defeats Washington 34 to

13. It was kind of closer than that, at least in the third quarter, into the third quarter at one

point. But then they pulled away. And of course, we want to talk about Nick Saban, no longer being the head coach at Alabama and some other long-time

coaches stepping out of the coaching world.

But Pete, let's start with Michigan, Washington, 34, 13.

In the end, that score was pretty commensurate to the type of game it was.

Michigan was the best team in the country.

I thought that by the middle, early to middle of November.

I know that upsets a lot of people.

It doesn't thrill me either, but Michigan was the best team in the country.

In the preseason, the athletic asked us all to make bold predictions for the season.

I mind what was Michigan would win the national championship and Jim Harbaugh would go to the NFL.

I wish I could probably find a place to take that two-way parlay, but I didn't.

It was, it was a fun game to watch.

I think those, the games where there's a real contrast in styles I enjoy, and this one was a fun game to watch. I think the games where there's a real contrast in styles I enjoy,

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