I.B. Nation, welcome back to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by Fanduil. It is Tuesday.

And even though Notre Dame has already played a football game this year, it is finally game week once again.

And one of the things that I learned about myself is when Notre Dame has a season opener on a Sunday night and then they proceed to follow that up with not playing a game,

kind of makes it feel like the season hasn't started yet.

I know that it has.

Believe me, I know that it has, but it is finally game week once again.

It is Tuesday, September 9th.

And today, Brian, we are going to start by previewing this Notre Dame versus Texas A&M

matchup.

It's number 16, Texas A&M traveling up to South Bend to take on the number

eight fighting Irish and Notre Dame. It's going to be Saturday, September 13th. It's another

night game, 7.30 p.m. Eastern time kickoff. You're not able to make it up to the game. Then you can

always watch it on NBC or it's probably streaming on Peacock as well.

Now, when we start getting into the lines of what this game are, we take a look at what

our fan dual numbers tell us.

And what they tell us is right now, Notre Dame is six and a half point favorites.

The over under right now is set at 49.5.

I think they're kind of waiting for Notre Dame to break that 30 threshold

for them to get an over under that's over 50 before they're comfortable putting that over

under higher. Little Nugget, I think this has the makings to be a little bit higher scoring of a

matchup. We'll dive into that as the week goes on. But yes, right now, Fandul has the over under for this game set at 49 and a half. But Brian, this is an extremely

interesting matchup. When you look at this big picture, you start to get into the conversation of,

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