Hi, B. Nation, welcome back to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast.

It is Thursday. We are two days away from Notre Dame

versus Louisville. This is a big game, folks, for the Irish and for the Cardinals. And you guys

know what we do here on Thursday. We're going to break down our keys to victory in all phases of the

game. Then we will make our predictions for the game,

talk about how we see the games playing out, and then, of course, we'll hand out some game balls.

And then at two o'clock, I shouldn't say at two o'clock, because it's usually around two o'clock.

I'll be joined by Bill Bender from Sporting News, and he and I are going to preview the big games for

the weekend because Georgia BAM is going

to be a big one this weekend, fellas.

And there's a couple other games that we will discuss.

And Bill and I will also talk about just sort of the latest NIL portal madness that

is happening at UNOV and USC.

And Notre Dame was obviously touched by that a little bit as well.

So we'll dive into that.

But of course, the, the prime time game,

or not I shouldn't say prime time, because it won't be at prime time, but the big game in the week for

us, everybody is Notre Dame against Louisville. This is a huge opportunity for Notre Dame to go out there

and make a statement and continue to hopefully put the stink of the week

two loss behind them and say, hey, listen, we had a bad weekend, but we're back on track

where the team we're going to be, or we could be having a much different conversation after

the game, and hopefully we won't have to dive into that.

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