Welcome back to another edition of Irish Illustrated Spotlight.

I'm Tim O'N.

My Tim Priester, senior editor and owner of Irish Illustrated.

And Tim, after three weeks of off-the-field news in which I worked here at Spotlight with

John Bryce, we're going on the field for what I think 95% of our consumers enjoy, which is an initial

preview of Notre Dame's opponents and 5% wonder why in the world you would talk about opponents

since Notre Dame has not lost since 1985 in Jerry Faust's first game. But you are nine,

your nine opponents in. We're going to focus on the first four, try to break this up in a three

segments so we can digest it. And obviously the first four games highlighted by Texas A&M, but you brought up something,

I thought, most people probably haven't thought about.

Other than Purdue, three of the first four opponents are known for their defense.

And I thought of something today when I was looking at it.

Notre Dame plays three road games this year.

Two of them are in the first three weeks,

and we're going to discuss those three true road games. We're going to discuss those today.

Yeah, and I think, you know, it'll be an interesting match with Notre Dame's offense because,

you know, the offensive line, where are they with, with that group as the season begins at Texas

A&M, you have a new quarterback.

You're breaking in all these receivers.

So it'll be interesting.

But yeah, I think that as we break it down in thirds here, going through the first third of the schedule, it's defense.

Texas NEM was 14th in the country against the run.

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