Eight quarters of football, two games, a four-point deficit overall for Notre Dame, and now

an 0-2 start to the Irish season, a season that began with Notre Dame ranked number six

in the country.

He is Drew Mentock.

I'm John Bryce.

This is Irish Illustrated's overtime live. Welcome to the show.

Drew, we've given up some of our initial thoughts on Irish Illustrated's instant analysis.

But your initial thoughts on this come from a head loss for Notre Dame, the Irish's third consecutive loss.

Yeah, I mean, this one honestly feels a little different than the Miami loss,

where I think there were some very obvious noticeable mistakes that cost them.

But I don't, today felt much more consistent, where throughout the game,

every time Nordame would seemingly get ahead or get momentum back, this time,

it seemed like they, rather than Miami, which I felt like made a lot of

place to kind of get themselves in there, it felt like Nordian would give those up to Texas A&M and

just a lot of uncharacteristic things. And I think this one, even though it was only by one point,

feels much more concerning, I think, than the last, if I'm being perfectly honest, just kind of from the litany

of mistakes. And they kind of made it on all three phases and in so many different ways that I think

somebody in the story I published asked me, like, you know, talk me off the ledge after this.

And I think it's fair to, like, be concerned.

Like, this is a game they definitely should have won.

They just needed to not give up any huge number of big plays.

And they couldn't come away with it at the end.

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