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It is Monday, January 4th, and we are here with Pete Sampson and Tim Priester here to wrap up.

The Notre Dame, Ohio State Fiesta Bowl. we talked about it, obviously wrote about it extensively.

I'm not sure how much we can add to what happened on Friday because, you know, I think

Notre Dame competed, but I think Nordame kind of competed on the fringes, so to speak.

They were down for basically 55 minutes of the game and double

digits for about 48 Pete. It just wasn't a great performance. The injuries finally took their toll,

but I'm not sure that that would have made a difference because, you know, Joey Bosa,

Joy Bosa had four tackles already when he left the game, so he was going to have a huge imprint on that game if he played four quarters.

Yeah, you felt like they were always in it, but never going to win it.

That's kind of how the dynamics of those games for the press box felt.

I didn't think Notre Dame came out in the right mindset at all, which was surprising to me.

Even though we've seen some slow starts in the past, the fact that the defense came out

and just did not have a handle on what Ohio State wanted to do offensively was.

Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised by that, but it was.

And then you, you know, even offensively at the beginning of the game with protections, the way Ohio State was coming at, I mean, you just saw a lot of broken plays in the beginning of the game where it just felt like Notre Dame was just in scramble drill.

And that definitely surprised me.

And I think I'm justified in my surprise because I think Notre Dame has

been a really good offensive team this year. And the fact that the protections were so off, I mean,

I'm thinking even the first play of the game, where, you know, they kind of move Bosa around a little

bit, and then McBillan, their middle linebacker comes basically unblocked between Stanley and Nelson.

They overload that side of the formation.

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