Welcome back to Irish Illustrated Insider. Today's episode features Irish Illustrated's Tim Priester to the bottom left of your screen. And football scoops John Bryce to the right. If you're merely listening to this podcast instead, Priester and Bryce, please do everyone a favor by just announcing your name right before you speak every single time you want to speak to me. Ease it in for the readers. If you don't want to do that, guys, you could quit and I will pay you $21,917 a day to go away because that's what's happening for James Franklin at State College. See you later. That's what I was open for. That is shocking, of course. It's not Penn State Week. It's USC Week. So before we get into our final game review of NC State forthcoming, we should talk about Marcus Freeman's press conference.

And USC week, no one said this at the press conference, but it's true.

It's also elimination week, Tim Priester.

That it is.

For both.

Yeah, probably for USC as well, I guess, but it's still the two lost threshold.

But not for Nordame.

Have to win.

You're at home.

You won six straight in a row in Nordame Stadium against USC.

But a real challenging opponent.

There's no doubt about it.

I mean, I always have that since I was eight years old.

I have that feeling in my stomach when I think about USC's coming to town or I'm going

out to see Norden play USC.

It's USC.

And they're pretty good this year.

I think they've come up with some answers.

I know they have answers offensively because of everything that Lincoln Riley is capable of doing.

Defensively, a little bit bigger along that defensive line.

And I think, you know, with a pass rush that they can generate with four guys.

Look, I still think there are tackling issues on the back end for USC, which is usually the case.

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