I.B. Nation, welcome back to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast. It is midweek rundown

time. My name is Brian Driscoe. I think y'all know me by now.

That is Trevor Trowbridge. And we're going to talk Notre Dame versus Georgia Tech. We're going to

talk stats. We're going to talk game wreckers. We're going to talk matchups. And of course, Trevor,

since it is Wednesday. I mean, you know we've got to have a buy-souhold today. And we have some great submissions from the buy-so hold.

We certainly appreciate all those.

And we're going to rock and roll into those, man.

But, you know, just another day to really dive into this matchup, which is a really big matchup for Notre Dame.

I was actually interviewed on a Georgia Tech show today that'll come out, I think, later today.

And I say, you know, look, there's a really healthy respect, in my opinion, from the Notre Dame fan base,

certainly from us, about this Georgia Tech team.

And as I'm thinking about this matchup, Trevor, I start thinking more and more about how big this matchup is.

You know, because obviously there's the triple option fears and all that kind of stuff but literally it would take Notre Dame not showing up for them to lose a game between the end of this game

and USC in my opinion you know and yeah of course the the like army's having a great year and

all that but I have to remind people their best win is over a two and four football team. Everybody else in their record has the same or worse record. Like,

you know what I mean? Like they haven't played a team like Notre Dame yet. Right. It would have to

take Notre Dame really playing poorly to lose that game. So it can happen. But this is the last team to

me that you could play your B game. And if they play their A game, they might beat you.

And so it's a big game for Notre Dame.

And I'm going to try to hype it up like this is,

you beat them.

And hey, if you beat Georgia Tech, you can beat Texas.

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