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Notre Dame vs BYU: STUNNING Difference That We DID NOT Expect! · College Football Addiction: A Show About All Things College Football

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  Speaker 1: On to Provo, Notre.
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  Speaker 2: Dame, and BYU.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to the good folks at BYU.
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  Speaker 2: Look, sorry to the Notre Dame fans that watch this.
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  Speaker 2: That's my side team right now. So shout out to BYU.
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  Speaker 1: This is a big game, man.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we've criticized Notre Dame's schedule, rightfully so.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I don't think it's Notre Dame's fault that their
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  Speaker 1: schedule is what it is. You schedule these.
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  Speaker 2: Years and years in advance, and they added a team
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  Speaker 2: in BYU that is now top 10 and playing some
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  Speaker 2: of the best defense in the entire Big 12. This
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  Speaker 2: is presented by PrizePix. Cole, thoughts on Notre Dame-BYU?
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  Speaker 3: Let's start off with this. For Notre Dame, this is
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  Speaker 3: one you need because if there's a world where you
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  Speaker 3: lose to Miami and we say, okay, that's your mulligan.
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  Speaker 3: You can't be 10-2 with your two biggest games and
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  Speaker 3: lose both of them. That was what kept you out
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  Speaker 3: of the playoff last season with Texas A & M
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  Speaker 3: and the Miami loss. That's it this year. It's in Provo,
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  Speaker 3: which is certainly a location to where that trip from
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  Speaker 3: South Bend on over to Utah could be a little
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  Speaker 3: devastating at times. But still, this is a moment where
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  Speaker 3: you can go ahead and show it doesn't matter who
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  Speaker 3: we play, it's the same level of expectation. I think
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame has been playing exceptionally well in their last
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  Speaker 3: few games. Dominated win over Stanford last week. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't... Stanford had no pulse. Stanford called uncle after
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  Speaker 3: the first snap. Like, that's how bad it was. And
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  Speaker 3: the UNC game, I came away very impressed with. For BYU,
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  Speaker 3: you want to be a two-bid conference league, get a
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  Speaker 3: win over Notre Dame, and then regardless of if you
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  Speaker 3: win the Big 12 or not, that will be the
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  Speaker 3: thing that will keep people saying you belong in the
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  Speaker 3: college football playoff. Having that signature win on your schedule
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  Speaker 3: is going to be really important. Let's talk about some
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  Speaker 3: of the big takeaways I have right here. For Notre Dame,
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  Speaker 3: This is an opportunity for you to really strut your defense.
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  Speaker 3: This is an elite defense. Top to bottom. They're top
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  Speaker 3: five in every single category. Well, you're going to be
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  Speaker 3: going up against, in my opinion, one of the better
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  Speaker 3: offensive lines in the Big 12. Certainly the best offensive
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  Speaker 3: line you will see at this point in the season.
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  Speaker 3: And you're going to go up against a quarterback that
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  Speaker 3: knows how to be able to tuck and run, understands
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  Speaker 3: the surroundings, knows when to slide, and knows how to
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  Speaker 3: be able to keep momentum going where they're able to
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  Speaker 3: win the entire possession. So, big takeaway for me right now?
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  Speaker 3: Who's got Bear Bachmeier? How are you spying Bear Bachmeier
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  Speaker 3: the entire game? Because Bear last game, I would say
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  Speaker 3: credit where credit's due. Guy was awesome through the air.
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  Speaker 3: He still led the team in rushing with over 108 yards.
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  Speaker 3: So this is somebody that you have got to say,
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  Speaker 3: we have a spy on 47. Who's going to be
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  Speaker 3: that guy? He goes left, I go left. He goes right,
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  Speaker 3: I go right. He goes to the sideline, I'm staring
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  Speaker 3: him down as he is getting water. Like that's the
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  Speaker 3: level of commitment you need from Notre Dame in this standpoint.
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  Speaker 3: For BYU in this moment. BYU showed a lot of
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  Speaker 3: growth last week that impressed me in the passing attack
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  Speaker 3: against Iowa State. Like, Bear Bachmeier threw for 323 yards.
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  Speaker 3: He could have thrown for 400, if not for the drops.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he was surgical last week. And that was
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  Speaker 3: very impressive because I think for a lot of us,
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  Speaker 3: we were saying, okay, what happens if Bear Bachmeier is
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  Speaker 3: forced to throw? Because we love what he can do
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  Speaker 3: as a runner. You love that you have LJ Martin
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  Speaker 3: to be able to bail you out of trouble. You
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  Speaker 3: got a ground game that you know he can go
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  Speaker 3: ahead and win with his legs. What do you have
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  Speaker 3: to win through the year? Okay, well, last week was
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  Speaker 3: kind of a sign of like you take a giant
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  Speaker 3: exhale and say, you got something cooking here. You got
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  Speaker 3: the ability to be able to win with legend, with
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  Speaker 3: your tight end play. They want a lot of 12
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  Speaker 3: and 13 personnel, so you can go ahead and dink
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  Speaker 3: your duck away to success. So that's really important. But
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  Speaker 3: here's the thing. I think you're going to have to
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  Speaker 3: win through the year if you're BYU in this game.
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  Speaker 3: Because Notre Dame, BYU loves to run the football. BYU
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  Speaker 3: is 17th nationally running the football this year. Here's the problem.
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame is a top three round defense. They've allowed
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  Speaker 3: one rushing touchdown all year. And you do not have
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  Speaker 3: LJ Martin for this game. So you have got to,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you have got to be able to trust
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  Speaker 3: that your passing attack, whether it be with Glasser, Glasker,
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  Speaker 3: whether it be with one of the guys on the outside,
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  Speaker 3: whoever's going to be your number two receiver, your tight
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  Speaker 3: end play, you have got to be able to win
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  Speaker 3: through the year. Because also keep in mind, Leonard Moore's
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  Speaker 3: status for this game is a major question mark right now.
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  Speaker 3: They have him listed as questionable going into the matchup.
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  Speaker 3: I expect him to play, but if he's not at 100%,
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  Speaker 3: Legend Glasker could be able to win a lot of
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  Speaker 3: one-on-one battles, and even if they go ahead and they
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  Speaker 3: take him out of the play with Leonard Moore trying
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  Speaker 3: to go downfield, that's going to open up the passing attack.
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  Speaker 3: That's going to allow you to be able to win
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  Speaker 3: with seven-yard slant patterns, six-yard out routes, something that's really,
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  Speaker 3: really important, I think, for BYU just to be able
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  Speaker 3: to continuously win with time and possession and to move
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  Speaker 3: the six downfield. For Notre Dame's offense, C.J. Carr's been surgical.
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  Speaker 3: CJ Carr has been really, really good at the line
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  Speaker 3: of scrimmage. Everyone has praised him for his ability to
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  Speaker 3: call audibles and pre-snap motion and be able to kind
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  Speaker 3: of get the offense lined up to make some switches
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  Speaker 3: at the last second and keep them really humming at
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  Speaker 3: a level that people are watching for the NFL side
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  Speaker 3: of things. Can you do more of that?
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  Speaker 3: Because I don't think that this is one of those
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  Speaker 3: games that you want to really switch on up your
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  Speaker 3: game plan of, well, now we're going to go away
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  Speaker 3: from the passing attack and we're going to try to
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  Speaker 3: run it with our three-headed backfield. Notre Dame's gotten better
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  Speaker 3: running the football, but definitely their strength is still the
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  Speaker 3: passing game. And even if it's a lot of just
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  Speaker 3: dink and dunking your way to short passes with Jordan Faison,
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  Speaker 3: and it's like a gain of seven or like a
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  Speaker 3: gain of nine, eventually BYU's defense is going to come
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  Speaker 3: down low and they're going to realize we got to
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  Speaker 3: target six. We got to make sure that he's not
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  Speaker 3: able to get anything. Take a shot over the top
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  Speaker 3: to Mikey Gilbert. That's your 50-50 ball receiver. That is
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  Speaker 3: your big play threat downfield. That's when you can go
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  Speaker 3: ahead and win. So all the things that we've seen,
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  Speaker 3: I think from the standpoint of Notre Dame, can really
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  Speaker 3: be well displayed in this game. And I think for
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  Speaker 3: BYU's defense on the flip side, do you kind of
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  Speaker 3: just send the house early on to make them send
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  Speaker 3: a message? Like, honestly, what do you have to lose?
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  Speaker 3: There's an opportunity for you to kind of get Notre
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  Speaker 3: Dame slipping in Lavelle Edwards Stadium, a very hostile place
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  Speaker 3: to play. A very dynamic place that can certainly lean
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  Speaker 3: in your favor. Can you go ahead and maybe force
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  Speaker 3: some short field position for bareback Bayern company to work?
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  Speaker 3: Can you go with the engage eight blitzes? Because again,
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame's offense, they've been great in pass protection. That
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  Speaker 3: to me, I think has been really, really a stellar point.
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  Speaker 3: If you can get pressure on CJ Carr where he's
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  Speaker 3: going to rush some throws, maybe get a pick, maybe
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  Speaker 3: get a fumble. Stuff like that can go a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more in your way.
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned some advanced analytics on the trenches, BYU offensively,
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  Speaker 2: their offensive line has been one of the best in
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  Speaker 2: the country this year. You are figuring opponent metrics into
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  Speaker 2: this too, right? This is not adjusted for a opponent,
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  Speaker 2: but BYU has allowed 12 pressures on 772 pass blocking snaps.
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  Speaker 2: That's 1.6 as a percentage. It is number one in
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  Speaker 2: the country analytically. First contact yards allowed. BYU is not allowing,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, defensively. First contact yards allowed. Their defensive line,
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  Speaker 2: teams are rushing for half a yard, which is good
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  Speaker 2: for seventh in the country. They've been really good at
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  Speaker 2: slowing down the run. They've been really good at pressuring
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  Speaker 2: other teams. Um, they are not good at keeping other
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  Speaker 2: teams from pressuring them. Can that keep up in another,
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  Speaker 2: another name team that you said, rushing has come along
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. Will they be able to stop Notre
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  Speaker 2: Dame's rushing attack? If so, we'll give them some benefits in,
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  Speaker 2: in the past game. Their defense has been really good.
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  Speaker 2: And I think their defense is going to have to
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  Speaker 2: be really, really good this weekend. They have done a
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  Speaker 2: good job of creating offensively. I think that what they've
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  Speaker 2: done offensively, protecting bear has been really, really important. Not
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  Speaker 2: having LJ for this game to me asks, it asks
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  Speaker 2: so much of bear Bachmeier. If there was ever an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity for like a legacy game, it would be this
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  Speaker 2: one because he's got to have to, he's going to
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  Speaker 2: have to do a ton and not that I don't
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  Speaker 2: like their backups. Not that I don't think that there
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  Speaker 2: are other people that can make a difference. Not having
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  Speaker 2: LJ is a massive, massive thing that, that they're going
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  Speaker 2: to have to overcome. And I, I guess we'll see
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  Speaker 2: how that goes. I mean, I don't, I don't, I
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  Speaker 2: think you can get away with that against Iowa state,
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  Speaker 2: which doesn't have a great defense. It's a lot tougher
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  Speaker 2: to ask bear to go for 300 and 100 against
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  Speaker 2: this Notre Dame team.
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  Speaker 3: I'd go a step further. It's, this is one of
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  Speaker 3: those games where if you're, if you're, if you're Notre
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  Speaker 3: Dame and you're Chris Ash, I'd much rather run the
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  Speaker 3: risk of bear Bachmeier beat me through the year than
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  Speaker 3: on the ground. Cause I think the thing that really
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  Speaker 3: worries me is that, If you allow him, because we
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  Speaker 3: talk about, and I can see it in the comment section,
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  Speaker 3: you talk about just giving a small little crease to
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  Speaker 3: the running backs, Walton, Williams, whoever else you want to
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  Speaker 3: go with with Notre Dame, Nolan James. If you give
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  Speaker 3: a little crease to Bear Bachmeier, Bear's been able to
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  Speaker 3: take on off. And Bear's smart. Bear does a really
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  Speaker 3: good job. And he's physical to when he knows when
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  Speaker 3: to slide, stop the play right there, and when he
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  Speaker 3: can go ahead and push forward a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: to go ahead and get a few more yards. So
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  Speaker 3: if I'm Chris Ashe, I'm doing everything possible everything in
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  Speaker 3: my power to make him stay in the pocket because
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  Speaker 3: I think he can get some throws off but if
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  Speaker 3: you allow him to be able to see a little
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  Speaker 3: crease through the a gap here's a running lane I
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  Speaker 3: can get six or seven that's something that can really
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  Speaker 3: pick apart a team like Notre Dame especially in short
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  Speaker 3: field position or especially in opportunities to win you can
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  Speaker 3: get off the field and it's third and seven or
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  Speaker 3: better yet it's second and eight and now it's third
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  Speaker 3: and one and now they can really do a lot
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  Speaker 3: with the play because to me that's a major element
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  Speaker 3: of this game he is so good at understanding the
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  Speaker 3: field and he only has one interception on the year
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  Speaker 3: so the passing is there when it wants to be
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  Speaker 3: but if i can make sure that i keep him
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  Speaker 3: in the pocket eventually i think that one of my
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  Speaker 3: defensive backs is going to make a play on wide
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  Speaker 3: receiver and that's going to lead to a turnover If
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  Speaker 3: I let him get in space, it's a big deal. Like,
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  Speaker 3: I think if CJ Carr was to run, it's not
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  Speaker 3: the end-all be-all. If he's going to end up being
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  Speaker 3: part of your rushing attack, one of the main stat
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  Speaker 3: lines is what he's going to be. Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 3: that'd be interesting. But still, I think that when you
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  Speaker 3: look at both these teams, throwing the football is probably
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  Speaker 3: the way you're going to have to win this one.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that right now, when you look at
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame's side of things, they got two weapons, Faison
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  Speaker 3: and Gilbert, and a quarterback that you trust on the football,
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  Speaker 3: even when there is pressure in his face. I think
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  Speaker 3: that when it comes to BYU, last week was awesome
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  Speaker 3: to see him actually get a really good rapport going
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  Speaker 3: in the passing attack. If I'm Chris Ash, I want
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  Speaker 3: him to beat me through the year. I do not
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  Speaker 3: want to make him beat me in the middle of
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  Speaker 3: the field.
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  Speaker 2: Gave up 17 points to Arizona, gave up 10 points
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  Speaker 2: to TCU, gave up 10 points to Iowa State. I
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  Speaker 2: think they probably need to hold Notre Dame under 24
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  Speaker 2: in this game to win, maybe even slightly lower than that,
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  Speaker 2: which I think.
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  Speaker 1: Their defense is capable of doing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that they can go shot for shot
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  Speaker 2: with LJ out in scoring a ton of points. I
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  Speaker 2: mentioned how good their defense has been. They haven't scored
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  Speaker 2: a lot of points. They scored 17 against TCU. They
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  Speaker 2: scored 24 against Iowa state, which is doesn't have a
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  Speaker 2: good defense. They scored 28 against Arizona. They didn't kneel
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  Speaker 2: the ball down on the last drive. They could have
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  Speaker 2: very easily scored another seven to get to 35. So
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  Speaker 2: I think you're asking a lot of your defense in this.
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  Speaker 2: I think that environment is, in Provo at night with
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  Speaker 2: an opponent like this coming in is a huge deal
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  Speaker 2: and it will have an impact on the game. I
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  Speaker 2: think this is closer than the spread, but I think
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, I think it's.
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  Speaker 1: Really tough to ask them to go win this game.
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  Speaker 2: Not that they can't do it without LJ in there
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  Speaker 2: and the offensive line, the defense as a, as a
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  Speaker 2: unit and certainly bear. They all need to kind of
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  Speaker 2: play above their level, to me, to take down an
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame team that I think is really good and
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  Speaker 2: could go out and win a national championship this year.
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  Speaker 2: If BYU was to win this, I think we're having
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  Speaker 2: a different conversation about what kind of team they are.
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  Speaker 1: I think we all think they're a really good team.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that we think they're elite just yet,
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  Speaker 2: and this is the game where they can go prove it.
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  Speaker 1: And for Notre Dame's side, this is a tough.
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  Speaker 2: team to go play, which will be thriving on a, like,
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  Speaker 2: this is not some pushover, just BYU team.
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  Speaker 1: That is easy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not, we're not going to get to the end
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  Speaker 2: of this game and me say, ah, well, you just
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  Speaker 2: beat BYU. Like you just, you know, like, of course
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  Speaker 2: you were supposed to beat them. Like it will be
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  Speaker 2: a very good win for Notre Dame, a resume building
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  Speaker 2: win on a schedule that doesn't have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: resume building potential on it. Certainly this game, certainly the
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  Speaker 2: Miami game. this is a big opportunity for them too.
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  Speaker 2: And if they don't play well, or they play like
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  Speaker 2: they have at times first half of Wisconsin, or like
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  Speaker 2: they have at other times this year, I do think
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  Speaker 2: they played a lot better here recently.
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  Speaker 1: They play like they have at other times this year.
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  Speaker 2: They will lose this game because this is not a
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  Speaker 2: pushover that you can just play really, really bad for
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  Speaker 2: a half and then be fine.
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  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, I think I like Notre.
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  Speaker 2: Dame here, 24 to 20. I think it is close.
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  Speaker 2: I think BYU does some things. Well, they just probably
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  Speaker 2: have a little bit more confidence in Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 1: LJ Martin being out is a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: And I like CJ Carr passing the ball a little
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  Speaker 2: bit better than Bear, but love to be wrong there.
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  Speaker 3: I think that for BYU, you can still prove you
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  Speaker 3: were the team to beat in the Big 12 with
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  Speaker 3: a loss. It's how it looks throughout the process. I
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  Speaker 3: personally believe that BYU has the best defense in the
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  Speaker 3: Big 12. Far and away. The offensive line, I think
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  Speaker 3: it's right up there with Utah. It may be better
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  Speaker 3: than Utah. The Holy War will really get a good
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  Speaker 3: dictation on that. I think the rushing attack, when you
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  Speaker 3: have LJ Martin, is lethal. And it's because of what
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  Speaker 3: you have with Not only him, but your two backups
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  Speaker 3: and Bear Bachmeier. And that's the thing where I think
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  Speaker 3: that all of it combined, if you play an A-plus
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  Speaker 3: version of football, you're able to go beat Notre Dame
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  Speaker 3: even if they play A-plus version. Like, it's not like
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  Speaker 3: some of these teams that you're saying, they need some
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  Speaker 3: breaks to go their way for Notre Dame. No, I
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  Speaker 3: actually think that BYU is a really, really, really solid team.
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  Speaker 3: But it has to be when you have an LJ
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  Speaker 3: Martin and you don't have LJ Martin. And it's one
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: of those times to where I don't think that a
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: player will define how a game goes. But it's pretty
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: damn close. You're going to need a lot of things
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: to go in favor of Bear. You're going to need
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: a lot of things to go in favor of your
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: run game outside of him on early downs. And to
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: be completely frank, I think that Notre Dame is just
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: starting to find its rhythm in the ground game. I
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: think that Notre Dame's defense is really playing lights out
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: so far. They're playing with confidence at this point. Because again,
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: the score in that UNC game doesn't really dictate what
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: the actual outlook was. Part of the reason why it
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: was a 20-point affair was because of a punt return
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: for a touchdown. I mean, kickoff return for a touchdown.
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: So that's on the defense. And then you throw in
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: CJ Carr and the way that he's playing right now.
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: BYU fans, you think I hate you because you're not
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: part of the Power 2 conferences. I really don't. I
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: really do want to see BYU be successful. I think
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: they're a great program. I think Lavelle Edwards Stadium is
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: one of the best atmospheres in the sport. But I
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: have zero confidence in you to even cover the spread.
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: I'm going big. I think Notre Dame comes on in
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: and by the middle of the second quarter, you start
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: to see that separation. I'm going 31-14. I think that
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: Notre Dame's defense plays phenomenal. And I think that their
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: offense is just a cut above everyone else. And you're
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: going to see the rushing attack, I think, of Notre
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: Dame really step on up in this matchup. And it's
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: going to change the way that we view the Irish
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: moving forward. They're a really good team. I'm sorry that
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: their schedule doesn't prove that they've been tested yet, but
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: we said that about Georgia last week, and Georgia still
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: put up over 200-plus yard differential when it came to Alabama.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, like, yeah, you can tell me that the
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: score is one thing. Georgia was able to really be
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: able to dominate that game in critical moments, and I
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: think that Notre Dame's going to do something very similar
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: in promo.
• 15:45
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• 15:48
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• 15:50
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• 15:55
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• 16:12
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