Welcome for the latest episode of the Shamrock.

I'm Pete Sampson joined by Matt Fortuna.

It's an off-season episode.

We've got a kick time for Notre Dame season opener.

We've got some potential grad transfers to talk about.

If you're on Theathletic.com, you've probably been following the state of the program series.

Notre Dame's coming up in mid-June, but we've got some very interesting Notre Dame opponents coming up in the next couple weeks.

And then just to get people excited, we'll talk a little Tyler Buckner as well.

But Matt, kickoff times are a popular Twitter topic.

Also, very impactful for recording of the Shamrock.

But now we know what we were assured was going to happen anyway that our first post-game

reaction podcast will be recorded probably at 2.30 a.m. from a courtyard by Marriott in

Tallahassee after Notre Dame's primetime opener at Florida State. I guess I wouldn't even ask what your reaction to it other than just like it was good to see ESPN put out a graphic and you're seeing Alabama, Miami, Clemson, Georgia, Notre Dame, Florida State. It just felt like, oh yeah, college football is coming back and that is freaking awesome. Yeah, the courtyard sounds like an upgrade from the Microtel, a bunch of you were stuck out last time you went down to Tallahassee. Yeah, it'll be Labor Day morning, upright and early, 2 a.m. or so. Yeah, it's fun. I mean, we're a little more than 100 days out by my math, and no surprise, right? Especially in their name.

They haven't announced all of them yet, but I think we can do at least a better job of guessing what time every

Neradame game will kick off this year than we did guessing where all their former players

will get drafted, which is saying a lot.

But it's exciting because you get that email in the middle of May kind of out of the blue because you're not really, it's not on your radar yet. And you're like, oh, wow. Like, it's even more exciting because last year was just, you didn't know what the hell was going out of this time of the year. And now you see those graphics. You see Miami versus Alabama, Ole Miss versus Louisville.

A week later, you've got Michigan hosting Washington in primetime and Penn State hosting Auburn in primetime week after that.

It's cool.

It's exciting.

You know, it gets you thinking about what college game base is going to look like in a real

environment with students that opening weekend and campus, campus week to week.

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