Hi, Brian, and part two of today's show. We're breaking down the second part, really second half kind of of Notre Dame schedule. We talked about by week. They're in the middle of the midterm. So in part two of the Irish breakdown podcast today brought to you by Fanduel. We're talking about who Notre Dame has left on their schedule. We spent part one talking about how we are both confident that if

Notre Dame wins out there in the playoffs, I think that is a common given. So who are those opponents

that they're going to be facing, Brian? And like you said, it's four ACC opponents. It's one

group of five team in Navy that's currently sitting undefeated. It's a back half of the schedule, and we said this before the season even started.

We thought that Notre Dame's hardest games all came before November.

There were some potentially some sneaky ones coming in there.

Like depending on what Pitt did, they might be one to look out for.

They'll come back up in discussion here.

Navy was going to be a good team again.

Navy was going to be a good team again for everything that they brought back but by and large the early part of their schedule pre-November was going to be their toughest stretch and so now

it's about finishing and how you finish is going to be huge for this Notre Dame team

there's no question trav I mean when you look at the schedules we we talk about, it's not a schedule that's loaded with really good football teams. You will play. The good news is I do think you play two of those really good football teams early in your five games, second and third. You're going to get them back to back, Navy and Pitt. And so if you're a Notre Dame fan

next two weeks, you're a big, you know, next two weeks, you're a big Navy fan and the next,

or big, yeah, Navy fan. And then for the next three weeks, you are a big pit fan. You want them to go

out and win games because both of them are receiving votes, which means they could potentially be ranked in the top 25 if they can keep winning. And pits in a situation too where they've lost two games, but they lost them both early, so they're kind of writing some momentum. So, but overall, Trev, you're not going to have that signature win in these last five games. I mean, even last year, you beat Army who was undefeated in ranked, you beat Navy who was undefeated and ranked, and it didn't exactly have like a giant impact on, like, oh my gosh, did you see what Notre Dame? I mean, it helped your resume, certainly, but you weren't a nine seed if, you know, but you're a five because you beat Army and Navy. It just isn't the case. And that's kind of what Notre Dame went through last year. And one of the concerns was, can they be sharp going into the playoffs with such an easy schedule down the stretch? And Notre Dame proved that, yeah, we can. So that was a good thing. But when you look at this schedule, Trev, it's there's no opponent that you look at and say, boy, I'm really nervous about that team beating Notre Dame if they play their A game.

I think it's going to require Notre Dame to not play well to lose any of these next five games.

Look, I'll say it again, if you can lose to Stanford 2022, if you can lose to Northern Illinois in 2024, you can lose to any of the teams that are left on the schedule for the most part. I mean, Stanford's not very good this year. They're probably better than they were in 2022. You know, but I think this team's different. And you look, well, they lost to Miami and A&M. Those teams are way better than any bounce play. And they still should have still almost won both of those games. So it's one of the things where there's a much greater deal of confidence. They're going to win all those games now than they did before. But those teams still present some challenges. And we're going to kind of go through each one of these teams and talk about it. And we've got the schedules for each these teams, too, traps. You just want to kind of go in order and just kind of go through each one and just kind of talk about those teams. I know there were some interesting news that you had seen earlier that Notre Dame just reported also that the kickoff time for the Notre Dame game against Boston College has been put on hold,

which means we won't know until next week.

Yep.

When that's on a six-day hiatus.

And they're waiting until after the 25th to release the kickoff times and the network

that it's going to be on.

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