Welcome back, everybody, to another edition of Irish Illustrated Insider.

I'm Tim Priester with Tim O'Malley from Irish Illustrated, and we're joined by John

Bryce from Football Scoop and Irish Illustrated as well.

He is mobile right now.

The three of us, we're going to talk about a few things that are happening

here this week.

Mike Denbrock, by the way, we'll meet with the media on Friday, February 23rd.

Looking forward to that.

I want to talk about, and it's in the news.

It's stuff that we already knew, of course, with the, well, generally speaking, with the playoff format, the five plus seven.

I, you know, I still hear that Notre Dame's getting the short end of the stick here with this.

And they're not.

They don't have a conference championship game.

So Notre Dame has to give back or had to give back in some way.

And, you know, really, I mean, maybe having your buy at the end of the regular season

as opposed to having a conference championship game before you get into the playoffs.

Maybe that's better for Noradame anyway.

I definitely think it is because we talked about this in the summer,

not the summer, in the winter, sorry, I've lost my mind.

We talked about this a couple months ago with Pete,

and we mentioned that the conference championship games a heck of a lot harder

than any game on Notre Dame schedule this year.

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