00:00But when I look at the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Joe,
00:02I say to myself, don't step back.
00:05Embrace.
00:06Embrace you went 0-2.
00:08Two of the toughest teams, Joe, you're ever going to play
00:11that had the first two weeks of the season.
00:12You can't fault them for going 0-2.
00:14Yes, you can't.
00:15Who can beat Miami?
00:16Nobody.
00:16Come on.
00:17Who can beat A&M?
00:18No, Joe, nobody can beat A&M.
00:21So now we say to ourselves, right, let me set the table.
00:24Hold on.
00:24Let me set the table here.
00:25Let me set the table.
00:26This was a team with expectations to go to the college football playoff.
00:30But they said, Joe, we're going to put the hardest games in the world
00:32in front of you for the first two weeks.
00:35Nobody expected Notre Dame to beat Miami or even compete with them week number one.
00:38A&M came there.
00:39That's an SEC team, Joe.
00:41Nobody beats SEC teams.
00:42You can't fault Notre Dame for losing those first two games.
00:45Now, Purdue's on the docket.
00:46The winning starts now.
00:49You want to go home and watch a little Rudy right now?
00:51You want to go home and listen to Newt Rockne giving one of those speeches
00:54before the game?
00:55That's what we're talking about.
00:56Notre Dame's charge to the college football playoff starts right now.
01:01Right now.
01:01Okay.
01:01Right now.
01:02So I disagree completely.
01:05Come with some facts.
01:05I don't even like Rudy.
01:06How about that?
01:07All right?
01:08I am.
01:09Terrible movie.
01:10How about that?
01:10Now, what didn't you not like about it, though?
01:12I didn't like it.
01:13The embellishment?
01:1345.
01:14A 5'8 guy getting shot.
01:16Sean Astin.
01:17The Georgia Tech.
01:18Sean Astin.
01:19I mean, the whole bit.
01:21Give me a different college movie.
01:23I'll upset all the Notre Dame fans.
01:24How about that?
01:25Here is the problem with Notre Dame.
01:27Yeah.
01:28They made it to the national championship last year based on what?
01:31It was predicated on defensive physicality.
01:33This defense has been Swiss cheese against Marcel Reed and Carson Beck.
01:38And you're going to tell me because they've lost by four points to both of those teams,
01:42all of a sudden now they get a free ride, not even being a conference champion,
01:47not having a marquee top 10 win over anybody.
01:50We're going to put them in the college football playoff for beating Navy and Boise and Arkansas
01:56and Purdue and a gutless USC team.
02:00That's if they beat USC this year.
02:02Come on.
02:03Can we stop?
02:04But I'm starting to turn the tide.
02:06Remember, I rants on this very program, Joe, that said, hey, Notre Dame has the easiest
02:09schedule we've ever saw.
02:10You said that.
02:11I'm looking at it now going, Purdue?
02:13That's a blue blood rate, Joe.
02:14Come on.
02:14It's a blue blood rate, Joe.
02:15You're talking up all these teams.
02:17I mean, USC is ranked now.
02:19They can schedule anywhere they want to put USC.
02:22Where's the marquee win for Lincoln Riley and USC, all right?
02:25People are saying it happened to LSU, right?
02:28And then they fell off a cliff.
02:29To end the season, you got Andrew Luck running a program with Frank Reich as the head coach.
02:32You beat Stanford to end that season, the clinch, that 10th win, the hottest team in the country.
02:37You can't keep them out, Joe.
02:38So now Stanford, because they beat Boston College last week.
02:41They're ranked.
02:41Okay.
02:42Notre Dame's in the top 25 today.
02:44They're going to have 10 straight victories.
02:46There's no way they stay out.
02:48Now, are you telling me that they're going to get tripped up by NC State?
02:51NC State's on the field.
02:52Is it still there?
02:53I don't even know.
02:53NC State, Dave Torrance there.
02:55Dave Torrance there.
02:56He's there.
02:57He's one of the longest tenured head coaches in the conference at 13 years behind Dabo Sweeney.
03:02But let me just say this.
03:03They have a tough game against Duke.
03:05So I think Duke actually catches them, even though they're 0-3 against the number.
03:09Notre Dame has no chance to make the college.
03:11They don't have a quality win.
03:13Answer me this, though.
03:15Let's be honest.
03:15They lose the two ranked games to start the season.
03:17You should have had at least one of those wins.
03:18They didn't get them.
03:19But if they finish 10-2, 10 straight victories, Joe, they're in the top 25 right now.
03:24Where do they wind up?
03:25If they have 10 straight wins, they have to be inside the top 10 at that point.
03:28No, they won't, Donnie.
03:30Why wouldn't they?
03:31Because here's the thing.
03:32If you're ranked 24th in the country in 10 straight games, you don't move up into the top 10?
03:36No.
03:37Who are they beating, though?
03:38It doesn't matter.
03:39They won 10 straight.
03:40They don't have to beat anybody.
03:41Nah, come on.
03:42It'd be Don Bosco in that range.
03:44Who cares?
03:46Wins.
03:46All right.
03:47We'll see.
03:47Don Bosco's undefeated, but I don't know if they won last night, but they were undefeated.
03:51But here, answer me this, though, right?
03:53Purdue, they're going to be heavily favored.
03:55But Arkansas is on the road in the SQC.
03:56Don't want to fight from there.
03:58That's a difficult game.
03:59If Arkansas wins today and Memphis is undefeated, if Arkansas rolls, they're going to be a 3-1 team.
04:06Yeah, okay, I don't know if Arkansas is going to be ranked, depending upon the body of work and the margin of victory or defeat today against Memphis.
04:15But, again, Boise State's not going to be undefeated.
04:17This isn't the same Boise State team that went into USF as a 5.5-point favorite and everybody thought they were the group of five team.
04:26That could be Memphis if they knock off Arkansas.
04:30So, again, everything changes.
04:32Where's USC going to be?
04:34Where is Purdue going to be?
04:35Where is Navy going to be?
04:37Right now, Navy's undefeated.
04:38I think they all don't even have a win, Joe, and Miami gets 10 straight victories, or Notre Dame gets 10 straight victories over the end.
04:44Look, understand this, too.
04:45They came into the season 10.5 win total.
04:47That's now down to 8.5.
04:49I'm saying they're going to run the table.
04:50That's 10.
04:51Why don't I just bet the team total over 8.5 now at this point?
04:53They can even get a trip up.
04:55I think it's a great bet here.
04:56Look at the college to make the college football playoff, Joe.
04:58Minus 164 to start the season.
05:00Plus 235 now to make the college football playoff.
05:03Okay, so let me ask you this.
05:04Only went to 30-1.
05:05They're still 30-1.
05:06Let me ask you this.
05:08Hypothetical.
05:08All right.
05:09Last year, right, they had a week one win over Texas A&M in College Station.
05:15That win mattered.
05:16That was a quality win.
05:18They knocked off Louisville.
05:20That was trending.
05:21Right?
05:21They covered that line.
05:23They had some wins under their belt.
05:24Still off the NIU.
05:26Yeah, but again, last year they had quality wins.
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