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Ohio State vs Notre Dame - Preview & Prediction (Late Kick Cut)

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  • A city in eastern Mississippi, on the Tombigbee River; population 23,798 (est. 2008).
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  • Ohio State-Notre Dame, Saturday night, 7.30 Eastern Time, NBC, we will be there.
  • We will be on the sideline in Notre Dame Stadium.
  • The Once Upon a Saturday Tour is headed to South Bend.
  • I am so excited about this.
  • I cannot tell you how awesome it was the first time I ever went to a Notre Dame game as a young child growing up in the South, never thinking I would get to do that sort of thing.
  • So now we get to go up there and we get to see one of the biggest out-of-conference games of the season.
  • I asked earlier on Twitter, I just asked everyone, what's your read on this game?
  • Because I swear to you, I went back and forth like seven times on who I'm gonna pick to win this today.
  • Ohio State's a three-point favorite for the record.
  • And if you're into totals, 55 and a half right now.
  • They played last year.
  • It ended up, Jesse, what was it, 21 to 10?
  • I think the final was.
  • But it was really close in the fourth quarter and Ohio State tacked a couple of scores on late.
  • And that was in Columbus.
  • I was thinking today about how different the offensive mentality must be for Notre Dame.
  • Last year, Notre Dame was basically looking to ball control their way to a win, maybe force a couple turnovers, shorten the game, and kind of go in there and steal one.
  • Because they were playing with Tyler Buckner.
  • Also, last year, Chris Tyree was their leading rusher.
  • He had six carries for 28 yards.
  • How in the world did they even make that a close game?
  • Well, they played really good defense.
  • And that was C.J. Stroud and Ohio State.
  • Notre Dame played good enough defense to hold them in check.
  • That is not the case this year.
  • That does not have to be the approach for Notre Dame this year.
  • Sam Hartman is a very, very good quarterback.
  • It gives Notre Dame the quarterback edge in the game, at least from 1,000-foot's view.
  • Now, when you get on the field Saturday, anything could happen over a four-quarter game.
  • Audrick Esteme, the tailback for Notre Dame, I don't know how much he'll go off Saturday night, but I would imagine that six carries for 28 yards could be eclipsed on the first drive.
  • It could be eclipsed.
  • He's 8.3 yards per carry right now, 130.7 yards per game.
  • He is the real deal.
  • There was a hearty debate happening earlier today that I was just privy to about whether that kid may actually be the best tailback in the country.
  • And there was a lot of Blake Corum chatter.
  • Travion Henderson looks really good now for Ohio State, by the way, but suffice it to say he's in the conversation.
  • I don't really care if he's number one or number three, four, five.
  • He's in the conversation.
  • This right here, though, Saturday night, that's the moment for the Ohio State offensive line.
  • We came out of spring.
  • What did everyone in Columbus say?
  • We got a championship team with a sus-aff offensive line.
  • Tackle's a question.
  • We got to go to San Diego State and get a kid to hopefully be a plug-and-play.
  • Well, they did.
  • Hadn't really been tested yet.
  • Now they're tested, Saturday night, and they go on the road.
  • And so it's going to be really fun to watch.
  • I mean, this is when you have to find that stuff out.
  • You don't want to wait until week eight to find out.
  • Notre Dame, number two pressure rate in the nation right now.
  • So matchup-wise, it doesn't sound favorable for Ohio State.
  • Ohio State ran the ball well in this game last year.
  • Travion Henderson, Mayan Williams, they both had six yards per carry.
  • They each averaged about six yards per carry.
  • Henderson looks good, man.
  • Like Travion Henderson's had trouble with injury in his career.
  • And I'll just insert the obligatory, oh, it was only Western Kentucky.
  • I get it.
  • But I would encourage you, go back and watch him last week.
  • I did, last night.
  • And man, that burst that he once had, and then you thought he would have it all throughout his career.
  • I don't know if he's looked like that in practice, but man, he looked good last week.
  • My biggest questions here, I got several of them, but I'll just quickly roll through them.
  • Number one, as much as that offensive line may be a question for Ohio State, do we think Notre Dame has the kind of defensive personnel in their front to wreck a game?
  • Like just to be something that Ohio State has no answer for, and they got to keep max protection in there most of the night?
  • I don't know.
  • That's what I wrestled with today.
  • Because that would be the answer, ironically, with all this offensive talk.
  • That would be the answer to Notre Dame taking over the game.
  • Number two,
  • I wonder if this turns into a slugfest, I wonder if Ryan Day is comfortable enough and patient enough to let the game come to them.
  • Because I think Notre Dame could be fairly aggressive in the passing game.
  • They should be.
  • They should be because they've got the quarterback to do it.
  • But sometimes when that's the case, they'll end up putting the ball in the air and you got a shot to pick it off.
  • And Ohio State absolutely has the defensive personnel to do that.
  • And so what if that turnover situation, what if those possessions get tilted plus two in your favor?
  • You don't really have to do anything firework-ish or overly special offensively.
  • That's a question I have.
  • And also, if you do go to the air, if you do try and utilize the weapons you have, if you're Ohio State, could be any of a number of them, but do they have a wide receiver who takes the game over?
  • I know everyone looks at Harrison.
  • Cade Stover at tight ends has been really good, but Emeka Egbuka, Fleming, Carnell Tate, like any of those guys in a one-off setting have a potential to go off.
  • So let's take a look at what Vegas thinks.
  • Let's take a look at what the model thinks.
  • You see the Vegas number.
  • It's Ohio State minus three.
  • I was very interested to crank the old model up today and see what it thought about this.
  • The model actually leans Ohio State minus four and a half.
  • So I told you I went back and forth like seven times.
  • I can make a really good argument for both sides.
  • No money will be wagered by yours truly on this game.
  • Where I landed is the place you land when you're trying to see around a corner.
  • So I'm really high on Ohio State.
  • I'm gonna pick them to win the game.
  • I'll pick them to cover.
  • It is not because of what I've seen from them so far.
  • If I were going off what I've seen from these teams so far, I'd lean Notre Dame to win.
  • I almost lean them to win anyway.
  • What I think is gonna happen is I think there'll be an effort above and beyond what we've seen so far this year.
  • I think, and what I think is just what I think, I think there'll be a level of execution offensively that is a little bit, especially with the competition factored in, I think it'll be a level above what we've seen so far this year.
  • And look, defense can win the game for them.
  • Defense can absolutely win the game for them if it's a game played in the upper teens, low 20s.
  • That's the kind of team that Ohio State has this year.
  • I'm high on them for a reason.
  • I think the players are there, even if it hasn't necessarily come together.
  • I also think you got a staff up there that should be good enough to coach around some of those deficiencies.
  • And I don't know, and this is what I kept coming back to, and I could absolutely eat these words, I don't know if Notre Dame is built to expose some of the flaws that Ohio State possesses.
  • So I'm going Ohio State to win, and I'll lay the three because it would be ludicrous to pick Ohio State to win, but Notre Dame to cover three.
  • Needless to say, looking very, very forward to that one.
  • And a reminder, a reminder, the Once Upon a Saturday Tour will be there, and that bad boy right there, if you're listening on podcast, that t-shirt right there is available for one, two, three, about four or five more days,
  • And then it will be lost to history.
  • You'll only see it in museums.
  • I don't know which one, but you'll only see it in museums.
  • Once Upon a Saturday Tour, Notre Dame Stadium.
  • Mm, mm, still only September.
  • Gotta love this sport.