Andy Staples, a national college football writer for The Athletic and radio and podcast host, joined the Pod of Gold to share his thoughts on Notre Dame's start to the season, the play of quarterback Ian Book, the job head coach Brian Kelly has done for the Irish, where Notre Dame's defensive line ranks among the nation's best, the trajectory of the programs at USC and Michigan, his best meal of the football season so far and more (1:44). Then Tyler James and Eric Hansen make predictions in the Place Your Bets segment (25:57), bring back Keeping up with the Joneses (32:06), highlight C'Bo Flemister as Punctuation Mark of the Week (35:16), discuss Kurt Hinish in the Junior or Jr. segment (38:13) and answer questions from Twitter (40:32).