I.B.Nation, welcome back to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast. It's Wednesday,

which means we're about halfway through the week getting ready for Notre Dame versus Texas

A&M. Notre Dame enters sort of a wednesday practice period today which is sort of a

it's kind of the big week the big day it's your last full practice or full padded practice

it's your last day where you're doing more team situations and then of course tomorrow

thursday is a a lot of situational football Friday will be travel day walkthroughs and then, of course, tomorrow Thursday is a lot of situational football.

Friday will be travel day walkthroughs and then Saturday's game day.

So Notre Dame is getting closer and closer to being where they need to be to know whether

or not this team is going to be ready to go out there and win this football game on Saturday.

So it's a big one, obviously, from a perception standpoint, I'm going to have a show

on Friday. I'm going to go live on Friday. And one of the things I'm going to talk about is,

what does this game mean for Notre Dame? Because there's a very interesting debate going on,

where especially on the board, and I'm assuming it's on other channels as well.

I don't read that.

I'm not on social media as much as I used to be.

This notion that all of a sudden,

you know, Texas A&M is this loaded,

talented team and people in the chat that are obsessed with recruiting rankings

and all these other type of things,

and it's going to be this and it's going to be that and all this hand-wringing and complaining

about how Notre Dame doesn't win games like this. And A&M is really good. And then you point out,

like, hey, they beat NC State. They'd be Duke. They beat Syracuse. And they're like, oh, those

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