Jesse, we have come to the time of the show, where I ask you, are you ready for rapid fight?

I am, let's do this.

Fill in the blank.

Notre Dame adding rice to its 2026 football schedule is blank.

It's just me.

You know, when I read that today, I was like, meh, okay, it's rice.

Could be worse.

Could be better.

Doesn't like push the needle one side or the other for me.

I guess it's better than, you know, maybe a max school.

Maybe it's comparable in your opinion.

I don't know, but I'd rather have rice than a max school.

That's where I'm at.

I'd rather have rice than Tennessee State.

I guess I, you know, and it's a Mack school. That's where I'm at. I'd rather have Rice than Tennessee State. I guess I, you know, and it's a new face and a new name. Someone's nerdyam hasn't played in

a while. I don't know the exact history. I know, I feel like they played him in the early 2000s or at

some point when Charlie Rice was here. I feel like it. I could be wrong. But again, it's new team better than I think a lot of people would say it's probably better than, you know, adding like Air Force or, you know, something like that potentially or Army. So again, I think that there are worse options out there. But it's not obviously, you know, like a Clemson or USC type

situation or an Alabama or Clem, you know, just one of those games.

Yeah, I had, when I, when I first saw this announced, the first thing I thought it was

1988 because, you know, Notre Dame's last national championship season. They played Rice that year.

That was the first thing that sprung to mind.

But then it was like, hold it.

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