I.B. Nation, welcome back to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast. Final show from me before this weekend's game between Notre Dame and Texas A&M.

Tomorrow night, Saturday, 7.30 p.m. Eastern on ABC, Notre Dame number seven against Texas

A&M number 20. Today's show is going to be sort of a different type of show. Obviously, it's not going to be a very long show.

I'm going to cover a couple different things that I really wanted to kind of discuss with you all before the game starts.

And just really do sort of put a final bow on just what surrounds this game, what this game means, what people think it means,

what it actually means. And then also I'm going to do something where I'm going to discuss

what I, because we don't know a lot about this team yet. And we, you know, we've seen clips

and we know what we think based on talent in last year,

but we didn't see a lot of this football team in fall in fall camp. And so I'm going to discuss

four things on each side of the ball offensively and defensively that I will be looking for

to tell me, okay, Notre Dame came to play today.

Because ultimately, that's what we need to find out, right?

And all the things that we discuss going into that is going to set the stage for what I mean by that as far as if they're ready to play.

Because there's a perception about this game that I find very fascinating.

But it's also a perception that is somewhat, somewhat deserved.

But I've got, I just have some issues with the way that it's being perceived

and we'll kind of dive into, you know, what some of those issues are and

and how I see this game and all that. So we're going to do that. And then of course,

tonight we are going to post the, we're going to post our countdown to kickoff show tonight.

Sean and Vince and Jesse will have that,

so we'll publish that tonight.

And then tomorrow night after the game,

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