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What are your score predictions for this game? So we're obviously going to pull some of those up and dive into into those. We'll also have something on the message board where we get into this as well. So give me your score prediction. Then I'm going to ask one follow up of each of you after you get up your score. So give me the score and then tell me how you think the game is going to play out and then I'm going to have one follow up question for each of you. Ryan, we'll go ahead and get things started off with you. Yeah, so for me, I see this game being a very competitive contest for the most part, but I do have a 28 to 17 final victory. And how I get to the 28 to 17 is I think that this game is going to be kind of one of those back and forth dog fights throughout probably two and a half quarters. And I think that both teams are just going to kind of do the back and forth below. I do think the Notre Dame could probably either probably going to score first in this football game. And I think that would be a great indicator of what the final potentially could be. But I do think that they are going to be kind of a back and forth contest. But what I think the difference is going to be is in the fourth quarter is going to be 21 to 17. And then Notre Dame is going to rip off a huge play. And I don't know if that's going to be Riley Leonard. I don't know if that's going to be Jeremiah Love, but I'm predicting a big play in the fourth quarter that gives you an 11 point lead and lets your defensive line now get a little loose. Your cornerbacks get a little loose. And that's when I think that you're going to see the most harassment of Connor Wageman in this passing attack is going to be in the fourth quarter. When you've established an 11 point lead, Texas A&M now has to spread it out. They got to throw the football. They're not going to be a run centric oriented team 28 to 17 final for the Notre Dame fighting Irish. 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I mean I think it's going to be a collective of the defensive line is going to end up getting the game ball. I mean if I had to throw one just for like the big play I would say Riley Leonard offensively is the guy that gets the game ball for making a big play when they needed it most. I do kind of trend towards that fourth quarter big play that I keep talking about is probably going to be in the hands of Riley Leonard whether that is as a runner or making a big play in the passing game. So I'll say Riley Leonard but I do think it's an assist in the defensive line because I wouldn't be shocked that at the end of the football game we're talking five-ish sacks on Connor Wakeman and a lot of harassment a lot of that happening in the fourth quarter when keg st. name has to kind of open things up and has to try to play a little bit of ketchup. So I'll say Riley Leonard is the quote unquote MVP of the football game but the defense flying it's a big a big pet on the back for the effort they have. So you're saying Marcus Freeman might hand that game ball to Riley Leonard but in the eyes of Ryan Roberts that game is going to come down to the Notre Dame defensive line dominating. Yeah well I mean Riley's not going to get it through the defensive line right he's going to give it to like Nat probably or one of his offense. Yeah I will give the while being the post game show talking about how I think the nerd and defensive line closed this game out and they were the difference of the biggest moments. Love it. Love it. So Ryan that's Ryan's prediction 28 to 17. Let's go next to you Trevor. What is your score prediction for the game and how do you see this game playing out? Absolutely. So my score prediction for the game I have Notre Dame winning 34 to 17. Now I don't know if it's because there's love in the air for me this weekend or if it's because I watched the here come the Irish documentary this morning but I am juiced up. Okay one thing that you guys will get to learn about me is I love to draw analogies and I love to make references to past years past teams and I know it came at a different time of year but this game has a 2012 Oklahoma field to it for me specifically. Heard nothing in 2012 except for Bob Stoops and the Oklahoma team and how they're just they're bigger and they're faster and they're stronger. If you guys remember in 2012 it was a 10-6 game at halftime. It was a stalemate in the third quarter and the Notre Dame won 20 to 7 in the fourth quarter alone. I think we pull away late. I think it is a very much a 17 to 14 type game at halftime. I think the first half is going to be full of big plays and I think Notre Dame's offense outscores Texas A&M 17 to 3. I think the defense digs in in the second half. 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This is why they still play the games fellows because just because you're the underdog doesn't mean you're going to lose that game and I like you said though what the D line played great. Your force turnovers. You got off to a pretty good start like all those things factored in and what was the thing that sparked him at the end of the game. Notre Dame answers with a big play to Chris Brown after Oklahoma ties it up and and and and you both said they kind of warmed down late. I think you guys both both mail and I'm going to give my prediction here now fellows and I've been back and forth on this. I'll be honest with you. I have I think I even gave you a different score Ryan. I think I gave you like 24 13. At one point I was 31 13 then I was 27 10. I've been all around the place because I I often do my predictions on what I think should happen not what I think will happen and I ended up kind of settling on what I think will happen as opposed to what should happen. I'll say this if all the keys that we talked about fellows come true and Notre Dame does all those things. This this won't be an overly competitive game in my opinion. I think Notre Dame it has the better team. They have the more experienced team the more veteran team. There's less turnover that these teams are dealing with that Notre Dame is dealing with coaching wise culture wise roster wise all of that. This is a game that Notre Dame should win and win handily if it was just played on paper. But unfortunately the game is not played on paper. This game is going to be played practically and it is the opener. It is going to be played away from home. There is going to be noise. There is I mean we saw the Duke game last year. I mean Notre Dame actually moved the ball pretty well early against Duke last year. It just kept it's like stupid fall starts kept killing drives. So you've got to avoid that kind of stuff. And I think those type of things are why this game is going to ultimately be a little bit closer than maybe it should be if we were just looking at the specific matchups and the specific keys. So I have Notre Dame winning 24 to 16 Trevor who gets your game ball. I don't think I asked you that who gets your game ball if Notre Dame wins the way that you have them winning. I'm in the same boat as Ryan. I think it goes to Riley Leonard the only offensive captain that the team has this year. I think there is going to be at some point in the game whether it's to spark you know call it a fourth quarter rally to really start stretching their legs. But Riley Leonard is going to have a sports center esque top 10 type of play that gets the team going and puts the nail in the coffin. I love it. I'm going to go I'm going to go a little outside the box because I don't want to just do what you guys did. You guys did great picks and you guys kind of gave the most likely answers. But I'm going to go outside the box a little bit. I think it's going to go to Jack Kaiser because I think at the end of the day what we're going to see in this game is Jack Kaiser is going to have some sort of big game changing play that's going to completely change the the the um the direction of the game. You know it's going to be something to force and to turn over. We're covering a ball lots of tackles lots of plays and I think it's going to be something like that. That's going to be the uh the ultimately determine the outcome of this football game. So Trevor I'm going to go with Jack Kaiser but I think like you I'm with you guys if they're going to win this game then we're going to need to see something from Riley Leonard. There's no doubt about it. So that's where it's going to be. So it's it's going to be interesting to see how it plays out Trevor. How much are they going to be able to execute the keys to victory that we talked about? Can they start fast? Can they control the crowd? Can the offensive line hold its water? Can the defensive line dominate? Do they take advantage of their their apparent advantages from a skill standpoint? All those type of things. Or is this going to look like what a lot of Notre Dame fans fear which is oh they don't play well in quote unquote these moments and uh and that's what it's going to be because at the end of the day we've done all the talking and now it's time to see what they can do. So it's going to be a fun one. So that was and then of course that's the second biggest news this weekend. Notre Dame Texan will be the second biggest news this weekend. Of course the biggest news is by the time we get to our Monday Tuesday or Tuesday show you will be a married man and so I'm going to welcome you to the club. Ryan's a part of the club. My next guest Bill Benders part of that club and this weekend you will be part of that club. So congratulations to you and your fiancee. Tell her welcome to the Irish breakdown family as well and hopefully you are in a good mood on Sunday. I promised her that no matter what I would be in a good mood on Sunday. No promises on Saturday night. So you can make it to you can hopefully you won't have to fake it till you make it on Sunday. So that'll be a good thing. So Trevor anyway congratulations man. Thank you. And we'll talk to you here again soon. Absolutely. Thank you. So next that's going to wrap up the Irish breakdown show. So we did our keys to victory. We did our score predictions. You guys can keep throwing in your predictions and before we get to our next section of course hit that like hit that subscribe hit the notification bell share this podcast give us a five star review we greatly greatly appreciate that. And as always sign up for the message board at boards. 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