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But up to this point, I think, you know, in games that haven't been played yet, if he can go win this game, this is a benchmark moment for Marcus Freeman in his tenure as the head coach at Notre Dame. Like I said earlier, if we look back and they win this game, we're going to look back at this and say, "Okay, that's where things really got kicked off in the right direction." So this is the biggest game right now. Yeah, I have to agree with Vince on this one, and again, kind of echoing some of the things I said a little bit earlier, this is your three for Marcus Freeman. This is, you know, your most deep roster, your best coaching staff, your probably most talented quarterback, you have to find a way to win this game on this stage and springboard your season to where you need it to be, right? Because a lot of people already view this schedule as, you know, kind of being weak and the true amount of road tests and all that stuff, you have to take advantage of this data point because it is going to be very influential to a lot of people by the time the season is over. And again, it's going to be, I think, what either springboards them towards their national championship run or just another kind of, you know, maybe 10 into kind of season, right? And as fans, the expectations ratchet up every year, every year, every year with the coach. And so to me, this is his most important game. Look, you've rebuilt the roster. It's the deepest rosters we've talked about that we can remember in quite some time. There's talent all over the place. There's different length and athleticism and everything else on this roster that we haven't seen in a long time. It has become a modern college football program with the way that it's built. But the bottom line now is you've got to go out and not just beat teams that you're supposed to beat. You've got to beat teams also that you're an underdog against in a road situation like this. Again, I don't equate Texas A&M to an Alabama or Georgia. Like if you're going to Tuscaloosa or Athens or one of those places, but this is still the world thinks you're not going to win this game. The world thinks you're going to lose this game. You're going into a hostile environment and you're going into year three for Marcus Freeman and all the things that year three has been for a head coach at Notre Dame. Last year, that Ohio State game that you mentioned Vince was the first opportunity at a signature win for Marcus Freeman. This would be a signature win for him. And again, with a schedule that doesn't have much teeth the rest of the way, this would be huge for Marcus Freeman and this program. So I'm buying that as well. So Riley Leonard's season yardage over under on Fandel 2,525 and a half over under on that guys. Can you give me, I don't have my laptop in front of me right now. Can you give me his number, his full season number at Duke? Do you have that on hand? A little over 2,900 that he had two years ago, including his bowl game. Now, I remember this is this is a this is a regular season number so like 26. I think it's right around. It's 26 something that he had for the regular season but including his bowl game. It was 29 plus so to me. Well, I want to say easy over but you got to look at the schedule right there might be times where he's not even playing what you would hope playing in the second half or, you know, fourth quarter of these games right but you never know. I still just really like the over because of who his offense a corner is the amount of weapons that he's going to have at the wide receiver position, you know, Jayden Gray House Chris Mitchell Jordan phase on both college, Jayden Thomas, Jeremiah Love out of the backfield. Like, I really like that in terms of, you know, fitting into a Mike Dembrock offense. The only thing that has me hesitant is like I was saying the potential to get into some of these blow out type situations that you that you would hope for. And he might not be able to rack up some of those extra yards that might be, you know, crucial by the time the season comes soon and I'm still going over at the end of the day over. That was a wonderful answer. I also am tempted to take the over here and I think that I would, since I'm, you know, not playing with any money at the present. So I would take the over. I do think that he's going, like, there's going to be many opportunities for this wide receiving core for yards after catch and things of that nature right and I think that Riley Leonard will be the recipient of some big plays where he doesn't even necessarily have to push the ball down the field. I think the players will push the ball down the field for him, you know what I mean. And so, while I do think he will push the ball down the field and I do think he will rack up some yards. It's funny. Like originally I was thinking like 25 2600 and that neighborhood would be a good year in 12 games right. I just, you know, I think he'll hit that I do even in the games where he gets pulled early I think he's going to rack up those yards in the first half, you know, I, you know, it might be a full game's worth of yards in the first half against some of that competition so I feel good about it. And I will take the over on this one. Yeah, because, you know, like, even you look at it, if he's in blowout games and, and those kind of situations like how that affects his yardage and all that different kind of, you know, like, it's only 208 yards a game. And that's what I was, you know, it's right around like, I was just doing the simple math in my head if it's to, you know, 12 games 200 yards a game puts you at 2400 right there so that now you only need 126 more yards. Basically, you know, so it's not like a massive number now at the same time, Sam Hartman had a similar number last year and Hartman only with 2600. I just think that playing in a more innovative passing offense with the targets that he's going to have around him. I think that that ultimately that is going to put him over the top because I think kind of like Jesse was saying just piggybacking on that, you know, even if they're blowing some teams out in the first half and he gives way and Steve Angeli gets to come in in the second half. He's probably going to hit a couple of big pass plays just like Tobias Merrow weather hat, you know, on his big pass play last year, you know, so I'm going to go over his, you know, his, his running and all that stuff factors into this as well like how much that takes away from him and everything else but it just seems like, you know, again, 2500 and 25, it seems to me like 2600 is a very realistic number for Riley Leonard so I've got to go over. What about his touchdown number 19 and a half and he got 20 for the season in 2022 when he was at Duke so I mean this is like right on that number there. I feel like you hammered the over on that I feel real good about that number I, I don't think that's going to be a problem in any way shape or form. Yeah, I actually think this is easier than the passing yards because that boils down to just like one and a half passing touchdowns a game. Let's say one against, you know, Texas A&M, I think he easily gets like three against, you know, Miami of Ohio or Navy or, you know, those sort of games right I think it's going to balance balance balance out. I look at him as more kind of like a 24 and a half kind of line at the end of the day so I think, again, this is easy. Oh, this is, I feel way more comfortable about this one than the passing yards. Yeah, I've got to go over on this one as well because just what you mentioned in the, in the four games against group of five teams and they are, you know, they're playing because they're playing two service academies and two Mac teams this in those four games alone he could have 15 or 16 down passes just depending on the flow of the game and, and how things go, you know, so like, or at a very minimum, he could have 12 in those games and that leaves you eight other games for him to get, you know, what eight more touchdown passes. So, I just feel like I agree. I think this is a really easy over as well on 19 and a half. It's a real shame that Ohio is real lame I might have to cross back into Indiana you're going to have to do it pretty quickly you're going to have to ride that river over here if you're going to make it. Come on over. Do you see a blue wrap coming down that's, that's me. This is not a Vegas number for Jeremiah love, but we're going to do this over under he doesn't have one that I could find unless you guys have seen one. It's going to be 99 and a half rushing yards for love this season. I would, I would take the I'm going to hesitantly take the under on this just because I think he's going to. If you said combined yards I think he might hit that but he's still going to have a role in this offense he's still going to see his fair amount of touches. Because more as you know the all purpose receiving and rushing type yards but again I just think that it's a very, very cautious line to kind of tread. So I'm going to take the under I would take the under on that one. I would take the under as well for that exact reason I think he's he is a very versatile back he's going to get a lot of touches and he may hit that but I think the odds are that he is splitting carries because they're both really, really good backs. And you know Jadarion price going to get a bunch of touches loves going to get a bunch of touches but there's only so many touches that are going to be had right and so I think that's what keeps him under. Yeah, I agree. I think that 800 is probably his max number but I put it up you know like everyone's very high on Jeremiah love so I put it up there at 1000 to see if anyone thought that that he was going to get like I wouldn't be surprised if it's price is the $1,000 worth of the 1000 yard rushing season and love ends up even somewhere around between 13 and 1500 total yards, something like that, you know, because of like just what you guys said the versatility, the all around play that he's going to have price picks is America's number one daily fantasy sports app with over 5 million active members prize picks is the easiest and most exciting way to play daily fantasy sports. Unlike other apps on prize picks it's just you against the numbers. All you do is pick more or less on two to six player stat projections and watch the winnings roll in. Get in on the daily action with your friends and become part of the prize picks community today. 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Okay, like people are making a big deal about the heat well last time I checked it was hotter here in South Bend this week than it was down in Texas. So I that it's a no it's it's no and void for me like it is not a factor in any way they practice in it on purpose. And they're used to it it's not even a factor for me they've been working on you know the fluids and you know the hydration and all of those different things and then they actually got to practice in the humidity and the heat. That part's not an issue for me. So by default, it's the atmosphere of the 12th man right and Kyle field and you know the SEC and you know all of that and you know look you can play major college football this is what you signed up for I mean it's going to be a factor but I don't think it's going to be the be all end all every time I get this opportunity I'll always take it he kills bacteria. The only the strong survive the heat and the thing is both teams are playing in the heat right. And I think it's great that it was so hot that we had this kind of mini heat wave this week allows them the proper preparation that they need at the end of the day so I've said this before and Vince I think you can agree with this like you get to a point in the game where your body just doesn't really feel the heat anymore right you're just playing like you don't think about the heat like everything's hot you're all sweaty like it's fine you got cool rags you're going to have fans you're going to have cold water Gatorade on the sideline. It'll take care of itself the only thing I'm worried about in terms of heat is how the body responds are you properly hydrated. You know that's the only thing I'm worried about with heat but environment. Man when you talk about a loud stadium a young offensive line that's going to be trying to communicate picking up pressures and often say you know a quarterback that might have to go silent cow. I might dim back offense where they like to motion they're going to have to hit their landmarks and no one to motion and that sort of stuff so to me that has a far more impact than what the heat will have. I completely agree it's the it's the stadium environment the cowfield stadium environment. I don't need to rehash any of the you know the heat related stuff that you talked about I'll just throw in the fact that they are using the you know the new helmet headset communications this year coach to player in the helmet. So you know are they going to effectively be able to do that when Notre Dame is on offense is rightly going to be able to hear everything or they're going to have to go to hand signals and all that kind of stuff. So I think it's definitely the stadium factor the environment factor that's going to be the bigger deal. I think I think go ahead. Sorry the last thing I'd say about this is like the only reason Texas A&M is favored is because they're playing this game at home and the environment that it creates. If they're playing the game in South Bend and it was as hot as it's going to be you might see the line the line would be a Notre Dame's favor the line is switched up because of where they're playing the game at not because of how hot it's going to be. I agree. That's a great point. Yep. Glad you brought it up. Throw in the blank. It'll be blank. If Notre Dame has another 10 men on the field kind of moment this season. Agonizing. I can't deal with that. I can't. I don't want to deal with it. I don't want to have to defend it. I don't want to. I mean. Yeah. It'll be agonizing. I just come on now. Don't do this to me. I would say I would say detrimental because like you just can't do something like that again. It's kind of like you're one warning. Right. We kind of got over it. But if it happens again, that's what it kind of becomes I think more detrimental to, you know, people starting the question is Marcus Freeman cut out to be a head coach. Is he cut out for, you know, making sure that, you know, that sort of stuff. The easy stuff I would say is taking care of at the end of the day. Yeah. It will be coach defining, I think, in the, you know, in the view of public opinion on Marcus Freeman. That's kind of the direction that I was going to go that we're Jesse finished there. It'll be a big referendum on where people think Marcus Freeman is in terms of his fitness to be a head coach. Is this young charismatic guy as, you know, as, as many good things as he has done for this program in a short amount of time? Is he really cut out to be a head coach? If you have that kind of thing again, that's, that's just the way to go. You know, especially two years and it doesn't have to be 10 men on the field. I'm just talking about some kind of stupid boneheaded gaff that is otherwise preventable, you know, that, that happens in the middle of a game at a crucial moment. Speaking of kind of coaching fitness, did you guys catch the, you know, he was on part of my take earlier this season or earlier this week and they, they gave him the hypothetical, you know, coach. You're three minutes left. You're down two scores. You score. Are you going for two? And then, you know, basically the whole go for two situation, right? You get two shots. If you don't get it the first time, you got the second time to get it. But if you get one of them, you end up winning the game. That a lot of criticism for that, because he said he's not going for two at the end of the day. So I guess what would your guys's opinion be if you're, if you're the coach in that situation, you're down by three scores. Would you go for two? You're down two scores. You just went in for your first score. Like we're down 16 and we don't. Yeah, I mean, there's a big difference in life. Sorry, sorry, sorry. You're down 14. Slow down. There's about three minutes left in the game. Are you going for two? No, no, you go for one, the first time. And then you see what, you know, you see where you are the second time. You say you don't chase points early because they put you in a situation where you have to go for two the second time. You don't go for two on the first touchdown. Not a chance. That's where he was getting a lot of flack because the analytics say you go for two in that situation. That's dumb. You don't chase points at that point. Just like Sean said, you are down 14 points, not down 15 where you know you're going to have to go for two. If you miss, like you said, then you have to go for two. I would much rather push it to overtime and have an opportunity to win the game even later. Or if I feel like I've got momentum and maybe I'm on the road or maybe I have no business being in this game. Yeah, okay, then you go for two, but give me that option at the end. Like, right, you don't even have that option if you go for two of miss early. That's terrible. That was kind of Marcus Freeman's actual rationale. He said, you know, we get to that situation in the second score. I trust my team in overtime. I trust my roster in overtime comparatively to, you know, whatever's going on. So he has more kind of trust and faith in his team in overtime if it came down to it. And I like the answer. I don't like the whole go for two as well. I think you're thinking too much about it at that point. There's a place for analytics. It's obviously become a big part of sports that I think, you know, a lot of us don't even think about, you know, because there's so much of it going on with what the coaches are thinking and stuff like that. But look, Brendan Staley got a head coaching job because of analytics. He's also been fired already because of analytics. How'd that work out for him? Like you have to have to have some feel for the game as well. I think Marcus Freeman actually does a good job, you know, like with going, when to go for it on fourth down. Some of those things, you know, like, I think he's done a good job with it. So I hadn't heard that that became a thing with, you know, with his answer to that. So interesting. I'd bring it up just kind of, you know, talking about people's perception of his coaching abilities, I guess you would say. Sure. So which is more likely to happen in this game Notre Dame, Texas A&M one Jordan phase on returns a punt for a touchdown to Jaden Harrison returns a kickoff for a touchdown or three. James Rendell James Rendell forces a fumble. I think I had it written down here wrong. That's what was confusing me. Texas A&M fumbles a punt off the foot of James Rendell, one of those three things. It's the third one, James Rendell fumble, you know, forces a fumble on a punt return, you know, that kind of thing because the ball comes down in such a weird angle. There's no way to practice that. And nowhere has that been put on film yet for them to practice that like they have no idea what's coming their way. And it's super odd and it's super strange and I think there's going to be a muff in there someplace where Notre Dame could take advantage. I do. So I'm going to be different and I don't want to copy what Vince is saying just for the fun of it. I think that Texas A&M will probably might likely might see a punt or two and just get into a lot of Peter situations be like, you know what, we don't even want to deal with this just get away with the ball, get away from the ball. You know, whatever gets down, it gets down. So I think I'm going to go with a Jordan phase on touchdown at the end of the day because I think, you know, it's, it's expected people, they know, you know, if it's Texas A&M did their due diligence in their homework. They know who Harrison is as a kick returner. He got brought in. He was, you know, a very good player Marshall. I don't think a lot of people know about Jordan phase on quite yet I think his shift. His ability to kind of, you know, elude some tackles his size I think plays into it as well, being able to be more elusive. So, again, to be fun and to be different. I'm going to go with the Jordan phase on point return. I like the Jordan phase on answer and I've been thinking about like when I was writing this question up I was thinking like, I think we're going to see some shiftiness and maybe he breaks one, you know, he kind of reminds me a little bit of like a Joey Getherall kind of guy from from several years back, you know, just kind of with that size and that wiggle that he's got to him, you know, but I'm going to go with the with the rough punt thing too. It's something that we've talked about and having seen the way it comes down. It is very unique. I think that is going to be an issue for some teams. This year, it's interesting because when the coordinators, you know, they do it like the Tuesday media availability, all three coordinators come out and someone asked Marty Biaji about it and he basically didn't want to talk about it like he didn't want. I don't think he wanted to sort of alert people that it could be an issue from them because they've never seen this guy, you know, punt over here before. So, like, especially if it's raining out there tomorrow night, you know, Saturday night, like I can see that being a big issue. So, yeah. All right, Riley Leonard says is two favorite places to eat here in town are mission barbecue and potatoes pizza Jordan Faison says chicken and waffles at pegs are his favorite so my question. Where do those three places rank for you in terms of local favorites here do they do they register for either of you guys. Well, first of all, I don't think I've had mission barbecue for being honest. I've always got, first of all, South been Indiana. You want barbecue. You're in the wrong place brother. I'm just going to tell you that right now and unless, unless you make a price big isn't bad price pig isn't bad. It's a couple miles from where we live right here. Yes, that's a good to a solid option. But again, if we're talking like top tier top in barbecue. There's not a lot in the South Bend, Indiana region. True. I haven't been to in a while. And again, even if I have gone, I don't think it's maybe once or twice. And then can you say the, well, you said, Polito's Polito's Pizza. Yeah. Again, I don't know if I've had Polito's Pizza. When we're going to pizza in South Bend, I'm going with, you know, Barnaby's, Bruno's, that kind of situation. Maybe I've had Polito's because I feel like you guys have tried just about every pizza place in the area. I'm sure I've probably had it at some point. I actually did some DoorDash Polito's Pizza because it's not far from where we live now compared to where we used to live. I did some DoorDash during a couple football games last year from Polito's. Nice. So I guess long story short. I don't know if my answer has a lot of weight. But if we're going to say, just say they don't register. That's all you got to say. Yeah, that's what I was thinking about right above me. God. This, this one's easy for me. Although we had, we had Mission Barbecue last night, actually. Oh, no, it was actually the featured meal at the senior slash. Oh, that's right. You did the, yeah. Okay. Okay. So, which we also helped coordinate. But anyway, it was really good. But at the end of the day, if I'm making a decision on where I'm going to eat, it's Polito's all day and it's not close. Polito's has amazing pizza. It's a little too far for a drive when I'm just like, hey, I want to go pick up a pizza kind of a thing because of the, you know, just the distance. But we used to go to Polito's all the time, where, you know, earlier on in our marriage, because it was located in a different place. Right. But then they moved. They had a fire several years ago. So they had to move. So it got a little bit too far away, but I love me some Polito's pizza. So it's Polito's and it's not close. Polito's is good. Like, I'm not as, they've got a New York style and they've also got like a stuffed pizza. And I like, I used to be big on their New York style. I'm much more on their stuffed pizza. I really enjoy it. It's like a stuffed with meat and cheese and stuff like that. So, you know, like you said, Jesse, like, from a family standpoint, if we're going to like get a pizza, we're more likely to go to Barnaby's, you know, here in town, but Polito's is very solid. Mission barbecue is not bad, you know, but it's a chain place. I prefer a couple of the local spots that I mentioned, just because they're, they're local and not chains. I don't know that I've ever been to pegs if I have it's maybe been once, never have. That's when he said the chicken and waffles that made me want to maybe check it out. So I think I've ever had chicken and waffles. I don't think I have either, maybe once. Yeah. When I'm going to a breakfast place that's not high on my list of things. There's actually a place in Syracuse that I saw on Food Network. That's like a big, it's like a waffle place and, you know, like they do all different kinds of waffles and they've got like a chicken and waffle that I really want to try. Yeah. When I go there with basketball this year because I haven't trained so far. Hey Irish Breakdown listeners, it's Urban Meyer. This fall the game changes. Join me, Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram and broadcaster Rob Stone as we bring you a new perspective on football and culture every week. We will be joined by the biggest name in sports and talk about everything inside and outside of the lines. Let us guide you through a new era of college football. Watch Triple Option on YouTube or listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts. When you need meal time inspiration, it's worth shopping Kroger for thousands of appetizing ingredients that inspire countless mouthwatering meals. And no matter what tasty choice you make, you'll enjoy our everyday low prices plus extra ways to save like digital coupons worth over $600 each week and up to $1 off per gallon at the pump with points. So you can get big flavors and big savings Kroger fresh for everyone. Fuel restrictions apply. Okay, let's predict the 12 team college football playoff field. So let's go around. Start with your four conference champions. Start with that. It helps when you look at the rundown. Jess, come on. No, I know and I actually suggested this question. I think you did actually. Yeah, he certainly did. Resources were limited today and I definitely forgot this was on the queue. But you got your car totaled. So, you know, I'll give the easy ones to start. I like that we're going with the easy ones. Ben's homework. I like that. Man, this is coming. He's just saved that from the from what he did like a month ago and I told him he did it the wrong way. Exactly what happened. But it's here. Miami. Georgia. Ohio State. Utah or my four. Okay. So you're going out of the box a little bit with Miami as your ACC champ. Okay, you're going hard on cam or not cam hard camp ward. Yeah. I have no faith in camp ward. So Miami is definitely not my champion. I have Florida State, which maybe isn't a great pick at the moment, but we'll see how it all plays out, obviously, but I have Georgia as my one. I've got Ohio State as my two. I've got Florida State as my three and I've got Utah as my four. Okay. So I've got basically Clemson. We've all got somebody different for the ACC. I've got the other three, though, Georgia, Utah, Ohio State Clemson. And that's mostly because of the fact that Florida State didn't just lose as last week. They lost a conference game right off. Yeah. Almost out of my mouth. I was like, but conference play hasn't started. But yeah, it did. Yeah. And they lost. So they're already fighting uphill battle. So, yeah. What about your group of five team? Who do you think is going to be the best group of five team, which will get you into the playoff if you're the highest ranked group of five team this year. This, this was actually tough for me because it could go any direction. You know what I mean? It's just, I picked Memphis. I think at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter who the 12 is because they have to go on the road to five and it's probably not going to be all that close. But I did pick Memphis in this case. Just Liberty, Liberty was mine came down to Liberty and the state, but Liberty is edging it out for me a little bit more experience, I think, on the national stage, especially recently. I went a little bit different direction. And I'm going with Troy as my group of five team. That's right. He inherited a team. It was in pretty good shape. 111 games last year. So, I'm going to say mighty Troy is the group of five, the top group of five team that will get into the playoffs. Wouldn't that be something if Troy. South Bend for playoff game. Just to get just to have to head back with an L, but it would be pretty cool. You might start off storylines. That would be one of them. That's right. Okay, so that leaves us seven other at large teams. Yes, for the playoff. Who wants to go first? Do you have ready? Yes. Go ahead. Yeah, I refreshed my memory. Okay. Notre Dame, Texas, Oregon, Alabama, Penn State, Ole Miss. I think you got one more. Yeah, I got one more, but I can't decide who that was. My last team was the hardest one, I felt like, because I've got all the other teams that you just named Notre Dame Ole Miss, Texas, Oregon, Penn State, Alabama. My last team was the hardest. Before you give yours, Vince, do you have any that are different than those six? I have Ole Miss out. Okay. So they are not in my five, because I only have three SEC teams, three big 10 teams, two big 12 teams, and two ACC teams. Okay, so you've got you tell winning the big 12. Who's your second big 12 teams? Oklahoma State. Oklahoma State. Okay. Yes. Good pick. Yeah. And then another ACC team then? Clemson. Clemson. So you've got Florida State and Clemson, both making. Yes. Okay, so Jesse, your final team is who? I got to stick to what the common trend is and all of these, and that's SEC bias. So I'm just going to throw another one in and say our good friend Brian Kelly at LSU. So you've got five SEC teams making the playoff in that case. I do. I've got a lot of bias. I initially didn't have Alabama in, but it's like 12 team field. It would be pretty shocking if Alabama doesn't even make it in a 12 team field. The SEC is not getting five teams in. I don't need to eat up on each other enough that that's not going to be the case. Yeah. I'm going a little dark horse here, and I'm not feeling as good about it because they struggled Thursday night in their opener, but I'm going with NC State. A little bit of a trendy pick. I'm going with NC State as a second ACC team. I've only got one big 12 because I just Oklahoma State's a pretty solid pick, but I'm just not that confident in in most of the teams in that conference. Arizona could actually be a little bit of a dark horse as a second team in the big 12 as well. As a trendy pick, I just don't trust their quarterback. Everybody just loves him so much, and I just don't see it. All right, let's finish with some game props, some individual, and then we'll pick the winner here at the end. We don't have to spend a ton of time on these Jeremiah love over under 58 and a half rushing yards over. Yeah, he might get that on one play. Yeah, I'm going over as well, or at least two plays. I'm going over as well. One great house over under 38 and a half receiving yards over over WR one. He's going to have more than that. He's the most important wide receiver wide receiver in that offense. And disagree. I'm going over as well. What about Chris Mitchell? His over under 37 and a half yards. This is the classic Chris Tyree dilemma last year. You could get this in one play. If you ultimately wanted to. I think he's going to get his shot eventually on some one on ones stretching the field down the sideline that's going to open up the middle of the field for the rest of the team. He'll get a one on one standpoint, so give me the over. Yep, agreed. I'm going to go under. I think that he's going to get a lot of the attention from the secondary because of the season that he had at FIU last year and the rest of Notre Dame's receiving course, especially the two Notre Dame, you know, the three returning guys Thomas and a great house and phase on who are going to be a big part of the rotation as well. I think it's going to set, especially a guy like great house like you were alluding to Jess. So I'm going to go under on like he can easily do it in one catch, but I just think he's going to get the bulk of the attention from Texas A&M secondary in this game. What about A&M receiver? Moose Mohammed over under 40 and a half yards. Probably over because I think they're going to be throwing the ball a lot because they're going to be coming from behind. Yeah, I mean, again, even if he's got five catches, you know, that's still only eight yards of catching. He's going to hit that over being a focal point of who they're trying to get the ball to. I would just take the over. It's a better bet. Yeah, I'm going over as well. Don't know exactly who their number one is going to be. Just like we don't know who Notre Dame's number one is going to be. It's got to be somebody. So I put it on Muhammad. Riley Leonard's passing yards over under 201 and a half yards. This one's so hard. I mean, I want to go with the over, but I just don't know. I think his legs are going to be the X factor. I don't think it's going to be his arm. I mean, I'm not saying he can't do it. I just don't know if he will do it. You know what I mean? So I would stay away from this one, but for the argument, I will take the over, but not by a whole lot. I'm going to take the under. I think this is more so like a 150 to 180 type range, but I'll make up the difference with his legs. And again, Jeremiah, I love to draw in price. They're still going to have a big impact as well on the kind of total yards for the offense. Yeah, I'm hesitant on this, but I will take the over. I'm like, my thinking is somewhere around 210, maybe 215, something like that, plus about 75, 80 rushing yards to go with it. But I'd go, I'll go over on later. But again, I'm not confident enough that like I'll probably just stay away from it. Kind of Wakeman's number is 230 and a half yards under. I'm going to take the over just because of volume. I think they're going to be throwing the ball a lot and they may dink and dunk their way to 230. It's not going to translate the points, but he could get some yards. I'm still going to go under like I can see the path that Vince is talking about, like they're chasing points maybe toward the end and they're, you know, they're throwing it around and stuff like that. But I still hedge toward the under on this team point totals in this game were interesting. A&M's over under for their score 24 and a half points Notre Dame's is 21 and a half points like that shows you right there. What, you know, we're Vegas, which is just absurd to me. I'll take the under for sure on A&M's. We'll get a better idea for my score prediction and I'm going to take the over on Notre Dame's as well. The game over under is 46 and a half points and I guess we'll get to that with our predictions right now Vince. I'll let you lead it off. What's your prediction for this game? Well, I have to take the over if I'm going to stick with my prediction because my prediction is 48 total points. So I guess I got to take the over. If I'm betting it though, I would probably take the under because I think points are going to be a little bit more harder to come by. But again, my score prediction is over. So I guess I got to stay consistent. Obviously, I would take Notre Dame plus the two and a half. I would also take them on the money line. I've got Notre Dame winning 31 to 17. You know, you might, to be honest with you, at the end of the day, you might be able to take a touchdown away from both teams and you might that might actually be more closer to the truth. But I do think Notre Dame's going to score. And I just don't see A&M. I mean, honestly, I'd be surprised if they put up 17. I think I feel like a late touchdown, you know, when the game's kind of already been decided could get them there. That's why I put it. But I think 31 17. That's what I've got. I'll just say this upfront. Any team that gets to 30 wins this game, no matter what, if you get to 30, you win this game. I agree with that for sure. I don't think either team is going to get to 30 though. My final score prediction is Notre Dame 27, Texas A&M 13. Mine's 27 to 17. So we're all kind of right in that same ballpark. Again, I feel like the team, the offense that makes the most explosive plays is going to win this game. And I think that between Riley Leonard, Jeremiah Love and the running backs or the wide receivers rather, and even Mitchell Evans, the tight end that Notre Dame is going to have on the field. Notre Dame is going to have the much better chance to hit some explosive plays against A&M. And then A&M is against Notre Dame's secondary. Guys, that's going to do it. Game one is on the way. We're almost there. Thanks everybody for watching or listening. Great to see you guys. Enjoy your Labor Day weekend. Don't forget Vince and I will be back on Monday for the big show. And of course, there will be a late night post-game show. Are you going to be part of the post-game show again, Vince? Oh, I'm hosting the post-game show. The post-game show. Yeah, baby. That's right. The future's down there. So. All right, the star student. Enjoy the game. Notre Dame, Texas A&M coming up. And I'll be carrying out a kick out for more talk to you next week. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [BLANK_AUDIO]
