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It's a full house to start the week as Jessica Smetana and Jamie Uyeyama join to run through all the news including but not limited to the playoff field, Drew Pyne's transfer, bowl opponent South Carolina, transfer portal crashing into recruiting, bowls we're excited to watch, who Jamie considers to be "low-rent Ian Book," spicy bowl sponsors, the war for Toledo, Northwestern completing its 0-for-the-United-States quest and Jamba Juice tips.

Our Trojan insider Nick Tresnowski joins to preview this weekend's Top 15 matchup between Notre Dame and USC. A tremendous offense and sketchy defense await the Irish in Los Angeles for their season finale.

Jessica Smetana joins to recap a 35-14 victory over the No. 4 Clemson Tigers. 

On the tenth anniversary of a wild fourth quarter comeback and perfectly officiated overtime session, Jessica Smetana and Paul Rigney join to talk about 8-0 Notre Dame trying to stave off an upset by Paul Chryst, Aaron Donald, Tino Sunseri and the Pitt Panthers.

Jessica Smetana joins to discuss Notre Dame's 41-24 road win against the Orange.

Jessica Smetana joins to partake in Michael Bryan of 18 Stripes' new game show: LepreCard Sharks (sorry) where the categories are all Fighting Irish stat rankings. Also, field reports are filed from the UNLV and Stanford games plus big picture thoughts seven games into Marcus Freeman's first season.

Jamie Uyeyama of Irish Sports Daily joins to review the offense through four games. Discussed: What from the UNC game might work going forward, slow starts under Tommy Rees, how a roster is built, Marcus Freeman's overall philosophy, Tobias Merriweather snaps and much more.

Jessica Smetana joins to discuss Notre Dame's 45-32 victory in Chapel Hill, a fun day of college football (go Blue Raiders) and how we're feeling going into the bye week.

Jessica Smetana joins to discuss the Fighting Irish's 24-17 victory over the Golden Bears.

Our old friend Carter Karels, now covering the Seminoles for the Tallahassee Democrat, stops by to talk about the wild Florida State/LSU opener, how things are going for Brian Kelly in the bayou, his thoughts on Marcus Freeman and the potential of Tyler Buchner.