Notre Dame is Gator Bowl bound! Who will be the Irish's new QB1?
The Shamrock: A show about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish
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4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Selection Sunday revealed Notre Dame's bowl matchup, South Carolina, in the Gator Bowl on December 30th. Pete and Matt take an early look at the Irish's bowl game and some of its wide-ranging implications, such as: who will start for ND at QB after Drew Pyne entered the transfer portal? Will Tyler Buchner be healthy enough to go? Can Shane Beamer and Spencer Rattler ride their recent wave of success to a 'W'? Plus, the guys share their CFP predictions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the shamrock. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Pete Sampson, joined by my co-host Matt Fortuna. |
| 0:15.1 | It's a bowl night as we record on Sunday evening here, Notre Dame, headed to the Gator Bowl against South Carolina. |
| 0:21.5 | High drama in terms of the internal politics of the bull season, whether it be Gator or Holiday, |
| 0:28.7 | led me down a very dark path of watching a live stream of the Holiday Bowl announcement |
| 0:34.0 | as they did a sort of recruiting helmet reveal. |
| 0:37.6 | Did they have a live stream? They did have a live stream. So that's like when they pulled out North Carolina. I was like, all right, this is it. Notre Dame's going to the Gator Bowl. Wow. And I was busy texting people there all day trying to get info. And I didn't know they were literally giving out the answers to the tests online. No, it was very, very odd. |
| 0:57.6 | You know, Brett McMurphy is sort of the bull source guy. |
| 1:02.5 | And when he's tweeting out that there's a major tug of war happening around Notre Dame, |
| 1:04.5 | I think you can sort of take that as gospel. |
| 1:08.5 | But Notre Dame headed to Jacksonville, first time in 20 years. |
| 1:10.3 | Game is December 30th. |
| 1:12.1 | Both Notre Dame at South Carolina, |
| 1:14.2 | 8 and 4. Both beat Clemson. |
| 1:17.5 | I mean, it's an interesting game. |
| 1:19.7 | We will talk plenty about it over the course of this month. |
| 1:22.5 | But one of the reasons that it's interesting, Matt, |
| 1:24.8 | is that Notre Dame's starting quarterback has decided to leave the team |
| 1:26.2 | before that postseason game. |
| 1:29.3 | So Drew Pine entering the transfer portal won't be a grad transfer. |
| 1:33.6 | He's still an undergrad. |
| 1:36.0 | This happened Friday afternoon. |
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