All right, Brian, and part two of today's show here on the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought to you by Fandul.

We are going to start diving into our preview of the Texas A&M Aggies, Notre Dame's second opponent of the 2025 season.

And when you look at this team, starting at the top, their head coach, somebody that Notre Dame is extremely familiar with.

Very familiar.

Mike Elko was Notre Dame's defensive coordinator in 2017.

And then obviously, as we know, Notre Dame faced off against Mike Elko and his coaching

debut last season in week one.

This is a big year for him.

It's year two of the Mike Elko era.

Third year in a row, Notre Dame is going to face a Mike Oco coach team. Yeah. Because they faced in 20, 23, when he was at Duke as well. Yep. And Marcus Freeman even alluded to what that means. They're not going to hurt themselves. They're a physical football team. They're a disciplined football team. and year two at Texas A&M with that level of talent,

you can expect more of the same.

But this is a big year. They're not going to hurt themselves. They're a physical football team. They're a disciplined football team. And year two at Texas A&M with that level of talent, you can expect more of the same.

But this is a big year for Mike Elko.

Can he finally get Texas A&M over the hump and be one of the premier teams in the SEC?

And they got off to a decent start, but due to some inconsistencies with personnel groupings

and, you know, some star players not panning out the way they ended their season 8 and 5.

But this Texas...

I think injuries hurt them a little bit, too, Trev.

I think losing Labion Moss really changed their season.

I do.

I think they were really rolling with him. I think they were really starting to cook a little

bit with him. He was on pace for almost 1,300 yards last year, you know, when he went down with an injury.

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