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00:02 Everybody can't get enough of that Notre Dame fighting Irish touchdown Jesus moment
00:08 that we're gonna watch at 7 30 p.m. Eastern this Saturday night. Ben, tell me once again,
00:12 because we've been pre-doing this all week long, we'll do it again tomorrow. So excited for this
00:17 one. Do we agree on the line movement? And once again, has anything changed since the last time
00:22 you basically took a look at this game? No, DRS, I do agree with the line movement. That Ohio State
00:28 seven and a half, the early look ahead line for this marquee matchup week number four before the
00:32 year got underway. I don't know if Ohio State should still be favored, although you're not
00:37 going to swing it by more than a touchdown. I believe Notre Dame and Ohio State even playing
00:43 field this week and with the game being in South Bend under that watchful eye of touchdown Jesus,
00:49 it's probably even closer than three and a half in favor of the Buckeyes. But DRS,
00:53 before I get into another key matchup and something I am paying attention to right here,
00:58 Master Blaster, what exactly is that? I just figured that's my nickname around behind the
01:05 scenes here, right? I think that's what they call me. You know what I mean? Yeah, I mean,
01:08 every day that guy's a star. Yeah. Master Blaster. All right, cool. Stevie Wonder song says
01:15 John James. All right. The way that Stevie is seeing it, the way I'm seeing it for this game
01:19 between Ohio State and Notre Dame. DRS, Ohio State, really, when you think back on the last
01:24 two years that has kept the Buckeyes from winning a Big Ten championship, although the Buckeyes did
01:28 reach the college football playoff last year, has been nothing offensively, although that might be
01:33 the question for Ohio State this year with their first road game in this matchup against Notre
01:39 Dame in South Bend for the young Kyle McCord. They did play in Bloomington week number one
01:44 against Indiana. It's the defense, DRS, and specifically on the ground because against
01:49 Michigan each of the last two years, keeping Ohio State from a Big Ten championship, the Wolverines
01:54 went for 252 yards last year in 2021, nearly 300 in 2020. So that was 2022 in 2021, 297 against
02:05 Ohio State. The reason I bring that up, although we're talking about Notre Dame, of course,
02:09 in this matchup is that has been the deficiency of the Buckeyes defensively. And Andrick Estime
02:14 might be the best running back for Notre Dame in all of the country. He leads the country with well
02:20 more than 600 all-purpose yards from the line of scrimmage, DRS. He is averaging a buck 33
02:26 on the ground. Now there are questions offensively for the young Kyle McCord and what Ohio State
02:32 brings into this matchup. 63 points against Western Kentucky last week was by far their
02:37 best offensive output of the year. And Notre Dame is top 15 in both scoring defense and total defense,
02:44 fourth best on the ground, fourth best in terms of total defense this year. But DRS, Ohio State is
02:50 also really good defensively. Second best scoring defense in the country, third best total defense
02:55 in the country. If the Buckeyes remain solid defensively, I think this game is right around
03:00 that number of three and a half. I do give the edge to Notre Dame at home. I'm going to look at
03:05 the fighting Irish outright. I believe in this Notre Dame team. I believe in Sam Hartman. They
03:10 have the quarterback edge in this matchup against Ohio State. They have the edge in the backfield.
03:15 Of course, Ohio State's wide receivers have the edge over everybody else in college football.
03:20 But Donny, I think it's who has the edge defensively in this matchup that makes the
03:24 difference on Saturday night in South Bend.
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03:29 (chimes)
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