Welcome to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by Van Duel.

It's Brian Driscoll, Vince Diderio here with you, and we are going to jump into a pawn for the review.

The Keys to Victory revisited.

And if you are a loyal follower, which of course you are, because why would you be listening to this if you're not a loyal follower? I mean, come on now. But if you're a loyal follower, which of course you are because why would you be listening to this if you're not a loyal follower?

I mean, come on now.

But if you're a loyal follower to Irish breakdown, you know that Brian and Trevor every week.

What day is that?

Thursday that you guys do these, I believe?

Yep, on Thursday, they do a show and they prognosticate and they talk about what are the keys on offense and defense that

could get Notre Dame a victory. And so we like to revisit those and upon further review and see

okay, did they do the things that we talked about? Did they not do the things that they talked about?

And how did that affect the end of the game and the outcome of the game, I should say. And so this is kind of a fun little look back to see if we were right, we were wrong, you know, how did Notre Dame respond? All those fun. Not so much if we were right or wrong, but were they right or wrong in their execution of it. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, it makes a little fun. 100%. So we're just going to dive right in. Brian, let's start on the offensive side of the ball, the very first key to victory. And it has been the very first key to victory for quite some time because it is very, very important. And that is to start fast. You know, in a lot of ways, Vince, they were so close to getting a check on this. So close. I mean, your first drive at the game gets all the way down to the one yard line. I mean, until you got down to the one and got that false start, I mean, you were just carving, Boise State up. I mean, it was, it was like, dude, this is going to be easy.

Like, I'm watching that first drive, go for nine-yard run on play one,

10-yard completion on play two, get to a third and 10.

CJ just rips off a 24-yard throw.

Next play, he throws a play action over route to Jordan Faison for another easy 24 yards.

You get the ball down to the one yard line.

Then you get the fall start.

And then two plays later, you run that darn wildcat mess and getting stuffed.

And then you get the ball back the next time.

You go down and score again, you know, you're running the ball.

You're throwing the ball.

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