I.B. Nation, welcome back to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by

FanDuel. Happy Friday, everybody. One of the bright sides of a short week is we're, feels like

the weekend comes up a little bit closer than the normal days, but we're going to work on Monday.

So, unfortunately, Notre Dame does not play on Saturday. We have an early by week to kind of weather

the storm of, but because of some of the things that unfolded last Sunday, by week is probably needed and then we'll get back to regular scheduled game week programming next week. But Brian, it is Friday, which means one thing and one thing only. It is the Friday free for all mailbag. And since it's a bye week, we have this going back in the rotation.

And I know it doesn't seem like that long ago since we've done one, but I'm happy that we have one today. Yeah, I mean, we, we've done some, you know, daily mailbags, but they're just not the same. The Friday mailbags where that's all we do, there's just a little something extra about them and we enjoy them very much and we have a bunch of them already started here and also one of

there's a lot of there's we do. There's just a little something extra about them. And we enjoy them very much. And we have a

bunch of them already started here. And also, there's a lot of people asking about Angela and she's

doing a lot better. Thank you guys so much. She actually just jumped in the chat to thank everybody.

I really appreciate all your guys as concern and care. It really does mean a lot to us.

And we, we certainly appreciate the prayers and support and definitely means a lot to us.

But I'm ready to, I'm ready to get rocking and rolling today, Trev. I'm bummed that we didn't

get to do a show yesterday. I really appreciate y'all's patience for that. I'm feeling a little bit

better today. But I was really looking forward to talking about the games this weekend because,

like I said, I know a lot of people aren't intrigued by the weekend's games, and I was a little too

harsh with my criticism of people who aren't. I get all that, but I just really like weekends

like this because there's not a lot of the big name matchups that just suck all the oxygen

out of the room. There's some really intriguing

matchups this weekend. We made predictions for, we did three games. We've already got Michigan,

Oklahoma up. We've got Kansas, Missouri up. We'll be doing Iowa, Iowa State up. Some really

intriguing games. I'm bum. We didn't get them to talk about yesterday, but you know, them's the

breaks. You know what I mean? But got a lot of great questions already today and uh and treb i'm ready to get rocking and rolling man i'm ready too man it's friday we got angela back in the chat we're ready to roll today man i'm ready to go now listen if this does happen to be your first friday free-for-all mailbag or just your first mailbag in general If you want your question or comment set aside, put a little MB for mailbag or a little mailbox emoji that lets Brian know to set that question aside. We will get it answered. But if you want to make sure that your question gets bumped up to the top and want to answer just a little bit quicker, you can always throw in a super chat. But Brian, I am with you. I'm ready to get things kicked off today.

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