Notre Dame vs. Indiana: Battle of Underrated Giants

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00:00Who do you like tonight, Indiana or Notre Dame?

00:05I hate to do this to you, Scott, but I think the Notre Dame Fighting Irish are gonna get

00:09it done.

00:10I think the weather factor, guys, plays into Notre Dame's hands, and I've been tracking

00:14this weather.

00:15You and I talk about how people are wussified, oh, it's cold, and this and that.

00:19I'm not saying that this, you know, you're not gonna die of frostbite there tonight,

00:23but at the same point in time, it is windy.

00:27The snow is coming down sideways, and Notre Dame can run the ball, bro.

00:31They're one of the best running teams in college football.

00:33All right, Jeremiah?

00:34They are one of the best teams against the run, 71 yards a game, they allow something

00:38else to give.

00:40Something has to give here, and you know what's amazing about this, Scott, too?

00:44Indiana and Notre Dame, both these teams are underrated, all right?

00:49Like you just talked about it, so I don't think people realize this.

00:53Indiana and Notre Dame are the two highest scoring teams in college football.

00:57Right.

00:58Like, not like, you know, the Miami Hurricanes, number one, but all these high-powered offenses.

01:04Indiana and Notre Dame, number two and number three, respectively.

01:08Indiana only give up, guys, 15 points a game.

01:13Yeah.

01:14It's unbelievable.

01:15People are like, oh, Indiana's defense.

01:16They have the best combined offense-defense rankings in the country, top five and above.

01:21Yeah, top ten.

01:22Exactly.

01:23And you look at Notre Dame, very similar, Scott.

01:24They only give up 13 points a game.

01:27You know, Notre Dame rushed for over six yards a clip.

01:30There's just a lot of things that, like, these two teams belong in the playoffs.

01:33They're good football teams, but without being stated, and you know, even the schedule, people

01:39talk about, oh, Indiana's schedule.

01:40I thought Indiana played a tougher schedule than Notre Dame did, to be honest, but I think

01:45the home field will matter.

01:46I think this ground attack of the multi-back attack that they have, plus Riley Leonard

01:51is a good quarterback that now is running the ball as well, I just think it's going

01:56to be too much, and I think that this, I think this really bad weather hurts Indiana more,

02:01and their passing attack more, even though Curtis Rourke is Canadian, so he grew up in

02:05bad weather.

02:06He lit up Purdue for 66 points in a snowstorm.

02:11He's from Canada.

02:13The guy probably wish he was playing hockey on a pond right now.

02:17They're afraid of this.

02:18This weather has nothing to do with this.

02:20In fact, Rourke's a better quarterback than Riley Leonard, hands down.

02:25Ah, people are debating it all day right now.

02:28I guess we're going to find out.

02:29Look at the numbers.

02:30Notre Dame is a running team.

02:32Indiana threw the ball like crazy.

02:34I can't wait.

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