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of the athletic and you are listening to irish illustrated insider a special wednesday edition

the day before thanksgiving happy thanksgiving week to all of our subscribers and listeners. We appreciate it. And it is also

Stanford Week, and it's hard to come by Stanford questions because Stanford's a bad football

team at 3 and 8. But they were a bad football team last year, and they beat Notre Dame. I don't

think that that's going to happen this time around just because of what happened last

year and because at Stanford really is a, I don't know if they're a lesser football team than

they were last year, but if they're better, it's not by much.

It can't be lesser because that was, I think Pete has the staff.

Stanford's first power five win in over a calendar year that day.

So no, they're not.

This team almost beat Washington.

No, I say, yeah, I say, right.

I say, I think this one is better because I think it's trend.

In some areas, it's trending.

Now, offensively, the numbers don't indicate that, but they're doing some creative things that we'll get into here today.

And we talked a little bit about it on Monday.

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