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I'm Pete Sampson, joined by Matt Fortuna top Scott Stadium.

We had a throng of admirers of the shamrock here tonight, so we were stopped everywhere we went.

But Notre Dame 23 winners over Virginia, I don't, the game certainly was a bit disjointed without Brennan Armstrong for Virginia's

point of view.

They couldn't do anything offensively until it essentially been decided by halftime.

Notre Dame, I feel like, could have put 42 on them with little effort, but didn't turn

over at the goal line with Tyler Buckner and

Logan Diggs. But, I mean, overall, it's, I think if you watch Notre Dame tonight in the,

in sort of the playoff context, you would look at Notre Dame as a team that's getting better

and playing good football, which is not something you

could say about everybody right now. Absolutely. I mean, a dominant performance all around. The final square, you know, they won by 25, I don't think, really tells the whole story at all. I mean, we both made the joke in game. There's truth in every joke, which is why they're funny. Fred and Armstrong may have won the Heisman tonight. I mean, holy cow, even Bronco Mendonhole, a Virginia coach on Monday when he was talking

about, you know, his status and what he means of this team.

He basically said, you know, no disrespect to any other quarterback around the country,

but like as far as who means the most of their team, like it's Brendan Armstrong.

And he brought up that exact quote tonight and he said I think

that was validated tonight um no kidding um Virginia is a program frankly very disappointing I

mean I didn't think they'd win tonight without Armstrong but I thought they'd show a pulse

especially as you know we're on the sideline pregame and oh wait there's myron

tango viola mosa and drew white

Yeah both not dressed like wait and there was a pregame status report issued before that that neither were on

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