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I.B. Nation. Welcome back to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast. We are here to cover the postgame of the national championship, and you guys see it in the title there. Notre Dame fell to Ohio State in today's game, 34 to 23, obviously not the outcome that we had been looking for and what we had prepped to talk about all week.

But look, here's the thing.

We said it at the start of the week, and we're going to continue to say it now.

Irish breakdown is going to be here.

Win, lose, or draw?

I mean, I guess there's no draws, but win or lose, Notre Dame is going to be here, right?

Irish breakdown is going to be here. And so we're here to talk about the game today. And there is a lot to talk about. So look, I mean, obviously, look, people are disappointed.

Understand that. I'm disappointed. I know Brian is too from the looks of what the chat is.

Disappointed as well. Disclaimer, just before we get started, guys, look, here's the thing.

This season was what it was. We're going to dive into what this season meant.

There's going to be a lot of time in between now and the 2025 season, right?

And there's going to be a lot of things that we're going to cover.

Recap of this season, introing into next season.

But there's a couple of things that I just kind of wanted to get out of the way first. One, let's everything in the chat tonight, despite how we're feeling and despite the emotions,

you guys know how we do it here at Irish Breakdown. Everything stays respectful, right? Like,

that's the common theme of what we do here. And Ohio State played a heck of a game at the end of the day, right?

And so that's the common thing that we're going to stay here.

We're going to break down this game and we're going to continue to do it over the next

couple of days.

But that's where we are, right?

Yeah, we'll have plenty of time to dive into what the season meant, and this is going to just

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