Welcome back to another edition of Irish Illustrated Insider, brought to you by Catanzarite Financial Services.

We have returned from Blacksburg, where Notre Dame at long last, going all the way back to coming back from Norman, Oklahoma, has solved the hex of a Power 5 ranked team on the road.

And like this 2012 team, after six games, this squad is now in contention for a lot more.

Are you going to sit on your road stats for a while or until the next loss on the road?

I'll bring it up before the next game.

No, you should. No, it was a great performance. In November, too, you know, the next loss on the road? I'll bring it up before the next game. No, you should.

No, it was a great performance.

In November, too, you know, the next time.

That's true.

Ah, that's true.

That's true.

Now, it was a really solid performance.

A really good bounce back by Ian Book within the game.

You know, up by a point at halftime, I thought what you said in our incident analysis, Tim, after the game,

that it didn't feel like they were losing. That was what a couple players indicated, but it

felt like Nording should be up by a lot more. There's no doubt about that. And so what did

Nordame do? They scored the first 21 points of the second half. I wrote about in today's tale of

the tape, Virginia Tech actually penetrated Nordham territory

on its first five drives. On the fifth one, they scored against the backouts, but on the

first four, it was two punts and two miss field goals. And Nordham capitalized after that,

giving him book a lot of credit for bouncing back from a shaky second quarter I guess you would say after he missed

Chris Fink on a deep ball when Norden was up to nothing he kind of got in a little funk and I also

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