All righty. All right. We're getting into part two today on the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought to you by our partners at Fandual, part of the Believe Network.

And what we've been doing this office is we've been going through and doing basically an opponent overview of all of the opponents on Notre Dame schedule.

Now, friendly reminder, this is a preview of the opponent itself.

And today we're talking about the

Pittsburgh Panthers who Notre Dame will be facing their 10th opponent. Now, there is not yet a

kickoff time to be determined, but they are on the road against Pitt. I think they're going to

be playing in the Pittsburgh Steelers home stadium like they always do when they're on the road

against Pitt. But this is about the Pittsburgh Panthers specifically.

It's not matchup based or how Notre Dame matches up with this unit or how this guy matches up with this guy.

And Brian, this is an interesting matchup.

This is one where-

It is.

It is.

And we've talked about the range of what Pittsburgh could do this year.

And we saw a little hint of it last year.

But this is definitely going to be an interesting matchup to go on.

You know, can Pat Narduzzi, an interesting head coach, can he continue building back from their spectacular 2020 season?

Took a back seat in 23,

had a hot start in 2024,

and then the wheels fell off once Eli Holstein got hurt.

Where does a guy like Pat and Arduzzy stand?

What is your initial thoughts around this Pittsburgh Panthers team, man?

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