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It's Thursday, September 22nd, Notre Dame gearing up to travel to Chapel Hill to take on North Carolina,

undefeated North Carolina, powerful offense, bad defense, kind of the reverse for Notre Dame.

How do you guys see this matchup this weekend in Chapel Hill?

Yeah, it's closer going back to, without Notre Dame being, obviously, at that level of

2020, where it was just an array of offensive stars for North Carolina.

And you knew Notre Dame was a bigger, stronger setup on the lines.

Now, Notre Dame's offensive line then was the second best in the country.

Right now they had a good half and a quarter, basically.

And Notre Dame's defensive line had its best game of the season.

So it's similar.

You know, Notre Dame's got to win up front on both sides because they do not have the skill position talent or quarterback, especially to match North Carolina. It's not that much different really than 2020. Now, it's a Drake May, I think is going to be very, very good and like is good now. You know, is he going to be talked about in the way Sam Howell was going into

the 2020 season, probably a couple years away from that, but certainly feels like he's sort

on that glide path right now. So it's, I think we talked about this on the podcast earlier in

this week or maybe pre-strander and I were chatting about it before recorded, just like,

Notre Dame Seconder, they're good.

Like, are they really good?

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