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I'm Pete Sampson, joined by Matt Fortuna.

It's a purely West Coast time zone podcast here.

I'm atop Stanford Stadium following Notre Dame's 4514 blowout of Stanford, which frankly

was not as close as that.

Matt is a,

I'm assuming an undisclosed Marriott property in Corvallis, Oregon.

Courtyard Corvallis, baby.

Beautiful down to have on Corvallis. After covering two Pack 12 games in the last two days,

a hero's work out there to cover what you watched.

But this is an order name podcast, so we'll save your Apple Cup takes for another time.

Notre Dame sitting at 11 and 1 entering the postseason.

Brian Kelly said they're one of the best four teams in the country because what else

is he going to say?

Ultimately, it comes down to this.

There are four spots and six teams, maybe five and a half teams,

depending on what you think of Alabama at this point,

and assuming they lose to Georgia, that are under consideration.

I'm of the mind that Brian Kelly is probably going to be proven wrong that Notre Dame won't make the playoff, which is unfortunate in some ways because I think it takes away from the best coaching job that he's done here in season with the amount of in season improvement improvement, figuring out late Lindsay and Austin,

figuring out how to improve tackling, figuring out how to fix the offensive line,

figuring out how to play a pass coverage without Kyle Hamilton.

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