This is Irish Illustrated Insider. It's Thursday, September 16th.

Tim Priestard here with Tim O'Malley and Pete Sampson.

Pre-Purdue, Nordim installed as a seven-point favorite, over under 58.5

for those that care about that kind of thing.

Guys, what do you think about this matchup?

Obviously, there's a handful of not good players, but great players for Purdue on each side

of the football that Nordame is going to have to account for.

It's tricky and way more interesting than I thought it was going to be a month ago.

So it's, I'm, I'm incredibly interested to sort of see how Saturday

unfolds. It's, um, I don't know if I would say that I'm as intrigued by this as like,

you know, when we were going to Florida State, you're just like, what are we going to see?

We don't know. Um, but it kind of feels like that a little bit, doesn't it? Like, you just don't really know where you're going to get.

No, it does.

There's a couple things that we probably know that will happen, and they're not necessarily

great for Notre Dame, but based upon the first two games, I'm saying.

Tim, what do you think?

Well, I think you hit the nail in the head when you said there's some great, not just good, but great players to worry about for Purdue, because that shouldn't matter if Notre Dame was

what we thought they were going to be. If you have four great players, a tight end, a pass

rusher, maybe a quarterback, we'll find out. And at a wide receiver, a great Notre Dame team,

last year's Notre Dame team, goes out and handles business and gives up 17

points and wins 3817.

But Carl Loftus can ruin six drives for Notre Dame.

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