I.B.N.

I.B. Nation. Welcome back to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast. Trev, it's a great day, man. We got

beautiful snow coming down. Our backyard looks glorious. I love snow when I'm inside. It's beautiful when I'm

inside. I'm making chicken fetuccina alfredo for dinner tonight.

A lot of good stuff going on. And there's something else. What is it? Oh, that's right.

We're going to talk about the national championship matchup between Notre Dame and Ohio State.

Guys, we're going to be breaking it down all week. Going to be a lot of fun. And today, our focus is going to be on the matchup between the Notre Dame defense and the Ohio

State offense.

And our focus is going to be on just kind of looking at these two matchups.

We'll look at it from, you know, we'll break down the Ohio State offense, talk about why

it's a dangerous offense.

It's not just dangerous because they have talented players.

That's obviously a part of it, but there's other reasons why it's dangerous.

How Notre Dame stacks up against this Ohio State offense.

We'll talk about, we'll talk about how they stack up on paper.

We're going to dive into a lot, a lot of this, Trev, to break down this matchup.

And then, of course, speaking of matchups, we'll get into later in the show some matchups that matter.

What are the matchups that Notre Dame has to win in order to dominate this, or not to

dominate, but just to win this game.

I don't care if they win by point, just to thrive in this matchup and put themselves in position to win this football

game. So that's what we're going to talk about today, Treb. I'm excited about it. How are you today?

Are you ready? You're ready to roll, man? I know the answer to that question, but I might as well

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