I.B. Nation. Welcome back to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by Fandle.

We have an awesome show coming your guys as way. Like we talked about on yesterday's show, we switched up the format a little bit.

We covered keys to victory yesterday. So today we are going to be talking through game records.

We're going to give our game prediction. And then, Brian, the rest of the show today, we're just talking ball, man. We get to go over the rest of the slate of college football. We have a bunch of different games, a bunch of different games. We're going to talk about more than 10 games. I'm not going to break them all down as thoroughly, but we're going to talk

about over 10 games. Also, reminder to everybody, we are doing an IB tailgate this weekend and

next weekend. So you're definitely going to got the parking passes today. My got Irish for Life 99 helped

me out to secure those two parking passes. So we're going to get those set up. Going to have a tailgate this weekend. Obviously, we'll try to get set up around like 10 or 11. I'll let you guys know more for sure. Follow me on Twitter. You can see on the message boards. And then next week, we'll have a much longer one, even bigger spread. So if you're going to beat the game this weekend, come over to Joy Slot. Find us. We'll have the Irish breakdown. We're going to try to have it flying, but we'll have our Notre Dame tent. You'll see me. And then I'll put a picture on the board and tweet out what light poll that we'll be at. So, yeah, very, very excited about that. Very excited about that.

A lot of good stuff happening today. And we're going to get started by talking through what our game predictions are for the Notre Dame NC State game. Reminder, that game kicks off at 3.30 p.m. this Saturday. This is the dreaded peacock only game. But you can also listen to it on Notre Dame radio. you can I mean if you're going to go to the game you can be there if you're going to watch it out in public

I can't do those things. I can't watch Notre Dame games out in public. I'm a little too loud. Got to be somewhere where I can kind of be in my own space. But 3.30 p.m. this Saturday, quick reminder to everybody, Notre Dame is favored by 22 and a half points.

The over under for the game is set at 60 and a half right now.

Trevor, I really thought that number was going to go down as the week went on, and it grew.

Like, I'm very surprised by that. Like, very surprised by that.

But hope it plays out that way. Really hope it plays out that way.

Really hope it plays out that way.

Just, I'm not someone who likes good games when it's my team.

Whether, you know, and again, I don't watch NFL anymore, but when it was the Broncos,

whether it was the Reds, whether it was the Celtics back in the day when I used to watch

the NBA, whether it's Notre Dame, whether it was Michigan basketball back

in the day. It didn't matter when I don't like close games. I mean, I'm actually, I'd rather

be a blowout than a close loss because enough to deal with the thanks of, oh, we might win,

and then boom, like, I'd rather Miami 2017 than BC1993. Like, honestly, especially if you're not going to get a shot to play for the title. Be one thing if, like, you're still going to get your shot to play for the title. But, like, 93, they didn't get a rematch. So, yeah, just the angst of the moment, it just, it gets to me.

So I'm hoping that it's a, the spread turns out to be, to be what it is. You know, that that's how the game kind of plays out. It'll be fun. You and me both, man. We're going to be talking about the spread a little bit tonight. Vince and I are tonight on the spread option on the CFB Nation channel, 8 p.m. Eastern. Make sure you tune into that one as well. But Brian, this is a, to your point, this is a big game for Notre Dame. At the start of the week, we talked about how these next two games between NC State and USC were going to be huge. Notre Dame is now in game number two of their three-game homestead before their second buy week of the season. And at the start of the season, obviously we knew, we didn't know how the season was going

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