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I am Tim Priester with Tim O'Malley and Pete Sampson.

It's Thursday of Michigan Week.

Notre Dame opened as a four and a half point underdog against the Wolverines that has switched

to Nardame being a favorite.

One point Saturday night, there is rain in the forecast.

So that will add to the elements as Nordame tries to add to their success here so far in the 2019 season.

And keep their national title hopes alive. I know that there's not much chance of them getting the playoffs,

but I just did a thing this morning about this would be five years of the last six,

heading into November.

Which Brian Kelly has remained, it's had one loss or less going into November.

So there's some significance to that.

Guys, what are your thoughts on the line moving the way it did?

Well, we thought that four and a half was a skew.

One and a half made sense and one by Notre Dame would have made sense too.

You know, this usually late money is dumb money, but also the smart money is early and that went on there too.

So all the money is going on Notre Dame at this point. Either way you want to have the spread one, one and a half, I think would have

made sense coming out. I favor Notre Dame, so I don't think it's weird, and Michigan's much

better at home than they are on the road, so you can definitely see a slight underdog. We've

even talked about it. At no point that I think they should be more than a field goal favorite

over Notre Dame heading in, and as it turns out, and I think most people now agree with that, whether we're right or not.

I'm surprised.

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