Welcome back to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by Fandul.

Happy Wednesday, everybody.

And that means today we are continuing to break down the Notre Dame USC matchup that is happening this Saturday night.

Battle for the Jewel Chaleli.

Saturday night inside of Notre Dame Stadium 7.30 p.m. kickoff.

This is going to be a fun one today, Brian.

You got a new background. We're talking Keyes of Victory today, man.

Got a new background at somebody else's house. Big shout at the DMND 13, who's on,

who's been, he's one of the OGs on the site. We're kind of at the halfway point between our

trip out east to go attend the funeral for my wife's stepdad. And they offered to let just kind of have their little home studio. So I got this little background. And I feel like I'm getting my school picture taken, right? Like I'm ready to go, man. So yeah, I'm ready to talk about this game. And it's a big one for Notre Dame in a lot of different ways, Trev, a lot of different ways.

Today we're going to talk about matchups.

We're going to talk about keys to victory, doing our new format, you know, continue our new

format.

So that way tomorrow we can spend a lot of time previewing a lot of these other big games

that are going on tomorrow after our prediction show.

But, you know, look, this is going to be a test for Notre Dame. Notre Dame is a better team. They're the team that should win. But at the same time, this is going to be a battle. It's going to be a win you're going to have to earn. And I'm looking forward to breaking it down and talking more about it. It's definitely going to be a fun one to dive into. and I'm a pretty impatient person, so I'm ready to dive into it at first, man. I'm ready to dive into it. We're talking matchups that matter. You're usually pretty patient, Trev, but this week with USC, I mean, it's like, you know, it's fourth quarter of the NC State game, and Treff's talking, texting me like,

okay, let's start talking about USC game.

Let's get ready for this.

So he's ready to go. He's ready to go. I'm ammed. I woke up at 5 a.m. this morning just because I couldn't go back to sleep. It's a second day in a row. I need this game to happen. I need it to happen now. which brings us to talking about the matchups that matter.

And we're breaking this down to offensive and defensively.

And look, we talk. which brings us to talking about the matchups that matter.

And we're breaking this down to offensive and defensively.

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