Welcome to another edition of the Irish Breakdown Podcast.

I'm Vince.

That's Brian, and it is the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by our friends at Fanduil,

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And we've got a lot of fun things to talk about.

We are going to do our keys to victory revisited. And of course, we're going to go offense, then defense. We're going to talk about. We are going to do our keys to victory revisited. And of course, we're

going to go offense, then defense. We're going to talk about Brian and Trevor's keys to victory

prior to the game. And if Notre Dame got a checkmark, a plus or a minus on those keys to victory.

So I'm very excited about that. I don't know if you listen to this

part of the postgame show, but Marcus Freeman talked about the fact that they have their keys to

victory and then they build their game plan around those keys to victory, which I thought was a nice

little homage to what we do every week for our keys to victory. So I thought that was pretty cool.

And so we're going to dive into our keys to victory and decide whether Notre Dame did a good job with those keys or not. You ready to jump into this thing, Brian? I'm ready to get right into it. One side of the ball is probably going to be a little bit better than the other side of the ball. But, hey, you know what? The end of the day, you get it done. Absolutely correct.

So, like I said, we're going to start on the offensive side of the football.

And as always, the number one key to victory is to start fast.

It is.

And honestly, they're getting a minus here because they scored one touchdown in the first quarter and a half of the game.

But I at least want to give them a special mention here because I do think that that answer,

like the normal, like, you know, you just can't score in the first drive and then, you know, not score for a while and that's going to give you a plus or a check. And that's why they don't get a check. But this first scoring drive had a little bit more meaning than some of the others. They score on their first drive a lot this year, at least getting deep down in opponent territory a lot this year. And, you know, lately they haven't been able to punch it in. They did against NC State and did not against Boise.

Or did they score on their first? No, they got stopped on their first driving to Boise.

They had the fall start at the one yard line and all that. But this is the first time.

I'm trying to think, is this the first time all year that Notre Dame gave up a touchdown on their first drive of the game.

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