This is the July 13th edition of Irish Illustrated Insider.

I'm Tim Priest with Tim O'Malley from Irish Illustrated, Pete Sampson from The Athletic.

With regard to the news, it broke last week shortly after we completed our podcast, as everybody knows, now the Big Ten and PAC 12 have gone to a conference-only schedule for the fall.

So that means that Nordheim's chasing some numbers now from 12 opponents to 9, 6 left from the ACC and then one each from the MAC and the SEC and the

AAC. We'll see what happens with that, but I thought it was important that we get together and talk

about this a little further, guys. I mean, you know, you could argue they probably had four

marquee games this year,

this season.

Now they have one.

It's a,

it's a pretty devastating blow.

I mean,

doesn't feel like a real college football schedule

with,

if it doesn't include

Notre Dame USC.

So it's,

I think on our last podcast,

which was three years ago, when we were talking about, man, that day on Wednesday when the Ivy League in Ohio State, North Carolina shut down, that was probably the worst day since the NISTOLA tournament was canceled.

Well, we've had two worst days since with the Big Ten cancel late or Big Ten conference only and then the Pac-12 going conference only 24 hours later.

So it's been a rough stretch here.

Someone sent me a message last week that said, I'm listening to your podcast,

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