This is Irish Illustrated Insider. It's Wednesday, November 24th, the day before Thanksgiving.

I'm Tim Prezler with Tim O'Malley. We expect Pete Samson to join us here in a bit, but we are here today to talk about Nordame v. Stanford, Nordame, a 19-point favorite, which I expect that number to go up, Tim, as we move along here this week.

But Nordame number six in the college football playoff ranking, which is where we expected them to be.

Let's start with Stanford, Tim.

They do not have a lot going for them right now.

L losers of six in a row.

Tanner McKee is back,

which is significant because the only chance that they had is with Tanner

McKee a quarterback because he's got a good,

he's got a good group of wide receivers and an excellent tight end.

Yeah, and I think he is a fine quarterback when he has time,

and that will be his biggest problem against Notre Dame.

Not many quarterbacks are getting time right now against what Marcus Freeman and Mike Elston

have dialed up. This could be a situation. I mean, it's a huge difference that he's playing,

though, because we talked, I think we mentioned in the last podcast, they've beaten three straight

backup quarterbacks. This would be the worst backup quarterback situation of all that happened.

I mean, I think there was, when I say backup quarterbacks, you know, they didn't really

have a chance to score the last two teams.

But I mean, those guys weren't bad, right?

Wolf folk would be good someday, I think.

I thought Wolf would play pretty darn well concerning the circumstances.

Gates can make plays.

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