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lupica mitch album and bob ryan i'm mike lupica new york daily news melbcom. And I am Bob Ryan, Boston Globe, and ESPN.

And I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.

You're listening to the sports reporters podcast.

We do this every Monday and Thursday.

Mondays are the most fun because you get to wrap up the weekend.

And although professional football will certainly take up a lot of our program today,

we cannot not start with what happened Saturday night. And I'm not talking about the

presidential election. That's for a different podcast. We're talking about the upset of Clemson

by Notre Dame in of all things overtime and a performance for the ages by Ian

Book and and that Notre Dame offense and what it started early with mistakes by Clemson

and then you figured well we know how this works Clemson just comes back in the second half

because after all they're Clemson.

But no, they were tied going into overtime, and Notre Dame held them down a real surprise.

Guys, what do you make of this game?

And it's implications.

Notre Dame is now number two in the country.

Well, here's the thing, Mitch.

And again, you're absolutely right.

They're probably going to play again. And when they play again, Trevor Lawrence is going to play

for Clemson. Not that they needed much more quarterbacking that they got from Mr. Ui-Angalele

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