Welcome back to this week's edition of Irish Illustrated Spotlight.

I'm Tim O'Malley, joined by senior editor and owner of Irish Illustrated Tim Priester for the second straight week,

because Tim, we are going to continue our conversation regarding your now completed 12-game look at Notre Dame's regular season opponents.

I should say your first pass-through.

You have not ranked them yet.

That's the more popular of the two season stories.

Facts, figures, and futures.

Last week, we concentrated on games one through four

because we have a highlight game there for Irish fans.

Obviously, the opener against Texas A&M.

This week, games 5 through 8, and Louisville is the highlight of that stretch,

and Louisville will be on Peacock, not in prime time. And one year ago today, you couldn't

convince a single Notre Dame fan that that would be the highlight game. No, you could not.

It'll be, once again, it'll be very popular with that game being on Peacock. Again, as long as

Nordame is affiliated with NBC, we're always going to have that.

But yeah, it's still an interesting team.

52 approximately, they may have added or lost a couple here along the way,

but 52 players have either left or arrived from Louisville since last year.

31 have joined the program, which is the second most in the

country behind Colorado. And, you know, Jeff Brom is well situated now at Louisville. They won

10 of their first 11 games, and it seems like losing their last three of the year has kind of

been forgotten a little bit because of all the hay that they made through the first 11 games.

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