I.B.Nation. Welcome back to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by Fandall. Happy Tuesday. You guys know what that means. We are kicking off game week. Notre Dame hosts the NC State Wolfpack, who are four and two on the season this Saturday afternoon in South Bend. 3.30 p.m. kickoff on NBC. Right now, Notre Dame is favored by 22 and a half points on Fandle. The over under is set at 60 and a half. Brian, Notre Dame is gearing up to enter a very crucial two-week period. And I'm excited that we're going to dive into this here throughout the week. Today, you guys know what we're doing. We're talking what's at stake for Notre Dame in this game.

We're going to give a general overview of NC State. Talk about how their season's going, break down offense and defense. Then we're going to wrap up today's show with a mailbag. So make sure as the show is going on, you're putting in your questions, comments, concerns, put a little MB for mailbag or a little mailbox emoji. lets us know to set that question aside.

And then tomorrow, we're diving into more match-up specific things with this game on Saturday. But Brian, no way around it. This is a big one. I'm excited to start diving into it. Notre Dame is riding a three-game win streak and they're looking to keep that alive. And then obviously carry that over to USC week and then go into their second by week sitting at

five and two. It's a big one for Notre Dame. Yeah, so what do we got? 3.30 Saturday afternoon on

Peacock. I really still don't like that they have games only on Peacock, but whatever, I get it.

We're going to learn a lot about this football team as we, you know, as we kick off a little

after 3.30 and we kind of watch this thing play out, Trev.

What's the line?

What did you say the line was?

Notre Dame's, what is it?

22 and a half.

22 and a half.

Man, this is, this is an interesting game notre dame has been so dominant in their wins

that you're starting to get these spreads that are just kind of like wild you know like boise

what was the spread against boise was like the biggest that they've had since like the 1990 or something

like that i think i saw uh it had to have been against an opponent with like some sort of record or some because

I mean there's I mean I guarantee they're spread against like a New Mexico back in

2019.

No, no, no.

For Boise.

It was the it was the biggest they were the biggest underdogs for Boise since, since like, I think I saw some like late 90s, early 2000s was the biggest underdog they had been in a game.

And you're like, that's a big spread for a two and two team going against a playoff team from last year.

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