This is Irish Illustrated Insider, August 27th.

Pete Sampson from the Athletic is with Tim Priester and Tim O'Malley from Irish Illustrated.

And I know we're kind of making a habit of doing a countdown of how close Notre Dame is to playing a football game and how

certain we feel that they will. It is 16 days before that. And Pete, you tweeted out last night

about you're more confident than ever. And I followed up on that saying I feel the same way

because ACC refs are scheduled through October 3rd games.

ACC reps are doing scrimmages and practices throughout the ACC. They're coming to Nordame

for a scrimmage next Friday. And now the news of South Florida being official on September

19th, it certainly feels like a Notre Dame football season is imminent.

And that all pairs with the testing numbers at Notre Dame.

Yes.

If Notre Dame testing numbers that continued where they were a week and a half ago,

I wouldn't share any of this optimism about officials and scrimmages and games and all that,

but they've,

Notre Dame has sort of got its stuff together on that front,

which they needed to do.

And I think this also,

we can get into this more later,

but I think there was a definitive feeling,

I think,

from you last week that,

you know,

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