All right, Brian, in part three of today's show here on the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought to you by Fandual.

We are going over the Notre Dame playoff rooting guide, and like we do every single week, there's going to be some games that Notre Dame fans should be paying attention to, good or bad, that will kind of help decide Notre Dame's playoff outcome.

Now, this is all under

the premise that Notre Dame continues to handle business. They beat Syracuse the way that they should.

They beat Stanford the way that they should, but they did that with Navy. They did that against

Pitt this past weekend. And then even though the Boston college game was ugly, they still won by

double digits on the road out of a bye week.

So we are continuing with this Notre Dame playoff rooting guide.

And there's some very interesting games.

We're going to do how we've always done it.

We're going to talk Notre Dame opponents first, and we're going to talk about national games that could all impact.

And so, Brian, this conversation like it is every week is really, really interesting.

It is. And it's not a huge number of games this weekend, partly because there's just a lot of games in the schedule that are just kind of garbage.

And there's a lot of games. There's several teams that are, you know, off this weekend.

But this is for whatever reason that week in the season

where a lot of teams just are either off or just play absolute poo. You know, like, we're not

going to be talking about Texas A&M because they play Sanford, you know. But there's still some games

for Notre Dame and then nationally that that do matter. And the first one is tomorrow night.

There's a game on Friday night that we're going to talk about here, Trev.

But look, this is a game, this is a weekend where there are some teams around Notre Dame that play big games that will impact who is or is not kind of nipping on Notre Dame's heels.

And then there's some other games that could help or hurt Notre Dame's resume. And so those are the two types of games we'll talk about. And that's what's going to be it will be some fun. It's going to be some fun. It really is. And you mentioned it. The first game that we are going to talk about is on Friday night. It's an 8 p.m. kickoff on ESPN. Florida State Seminels are on the road against NC State. And the common theme that we've mentioned with this Wolfpack team, and with Dave Dorn especially, on the road, they are not the same team that they are at home. But they're looking for a big bounce back really after getting the break speed out of them against Miami this past week. So big game for NC State and Dave Dorn to bounce back in this one.

It is.

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