It's Ohio State Week, and WE'RE FIRED UP! Whether you're watching this weekend's game from inside Notre Dame Stadium (please wear green), tuning in from your TV at home (feel free to also wear green), or cheering on the Irish from your Hawaiian beachside barbecue (we're green with envy), you're starting off your spirited week the right way with this episode. Feel free to follow it up with a volume-cranked fight song to really get in the mood, because we're all in this together. Go Irish!

This podcast is already 1% better than last week. (Don't tell Sam Hartman.)

Listen, we're not concerned about whether or not a hotdog is a sandwich. We just want to know if they cause 80-yard touchdown runs. The one thing we do know is that Coach Marcus Freeman might be throwing a party if there's ever a rain-delay at Notre Dame Stadium. If anyone knows how to score that invitation, we're all ears.

Oh, and can someone please fix Jess Smetana's mic stand?

Has Notre Dame Head Football Coach Marcus Freeman ever caught a fish? Will Quarterback Sam Hartman settle the legendary feud between North and South Dining Hall? How many walls will you want to run through after Mike Golic Jr. explains why "there’s no place like Notre Dame"? Only one way to find out. Watch the series premiere- the pilot, if you will- of Wake Up the Echoes.

Join us this season on Wake Up the Echoes: The Official Show of the Fighting Irish, presented by TireRack.com. Hosted by Tony Simeone.