Notre Dame Defeats Texas A&M at Kyle Field, 23-13

e [Music] [Music] [Music] welcome back to Irish Illustrated overtime I'm Tim Al joined by Tim Priester of IRL straight at John Bryce of footballscoop.com and guys 2313 Notre Dame goes into the Heart of Texas and beats number 20 Texas A&M to start the season if I were to tell you that they would not give up the sack they would average 5.8 rushing yards and they would turn out 106 fourth quarter rushing errors you might have thought 35 to 13 but now it was a struggle for the first half it means a lot I believe for this team to pull through in this environment because when nor took a 136 lead on a jarian price touchdown Jun we thought ah they're gonna they're gonna hang on to this one A&M answered tied the score and it was not Trad Dame all the way in the fourth quarter well this was uh you know we all we said all along that this is a game that Nord Dame had to proen look it doesn't matter whether Texas A&M is a world beater yet they're not going to be under Mike ELO quite yet but this is a difficult venue to come into and play we knew about it's not like we talked about all the strengths that both teams had and and A&M has a bunch of four and five star players with a really good defensive line and for most of the night that defensive line was was uh was a handful for nord's offensive line but I mean think about what this offensive line did and how much better it can be over time to rush for 198 yards and 5.8 yards per carry uh you had to be resilient because they weren't coming early in fact uh when when they had those back-to-back long runs and one was negated PRI that was in the second quarter prior to that neram had 10 yards rushing and so that was the beginning of the the Breakthrough but uh just really happy for Marcus Freeman and his team because they believed and they knew they had to come out here and show it and they did and I I give to a lot of credit for pointing out in instant analysis postgame that Notre Dame by and large was the fastest team on the field tonight and I I think that's highly significant I'm going to continue to harp on that the floor has been so elevated for Notre Dame the floor uh has what we talked about in practice and how much more efficient practice was overall through fall Camp because um you had quality you had quality dep one through four overall so that you could two spot and and do basically two simultaneous practices over the course of camp and I thought yes Notre Dame had a lot of penalties tonight but I thought Notre Dame by and large looked like a very prepared football team certainly look like an incredibly prepared coaching staff Freeman golden Den Brock baji these guys look good Al Washington had to really work his defensive line rotation a lot but he did a nice job with it lot Max bis linebackers played incredibly well the wide receiver room uh did some nice things with very limited opportunities and uh I think it's worth noting we were all on field pregame uh I lingered down there a little bit more than you guys and on two or three different visits since we got here so early there were a number of NFL Scouts on that field pregame I've been waiting I've been waiting to share this the NFL Scouts you could hear them talking about the fact that Texas A&M didn't look like a first year program looked like they still had a bunch of dudes they were there comparing notes on a bunch of Texas A&M's players in this pregame NFL Scouts from all over and Notre Dame didn't have nearly as many dudes top to bottom as what um Texas San M had but Notre Dame had dudes when it mattered had better dudes in some key positions and I think that's why the Irish won this game along with the belief yes Notre Dame has has had a long reputation of being this Scrappy team that will play fundamentally sound and give itself a chance to win well now it's a scrappy team that believes it can win and has a lot better athleticism including at the quarterback position we figured a rock fight was coming six week six months ago about six weeks ago we realized it was a short uh when Charles Jaso went down and you were going to go very young on the offensive line three firsttime starters against dudes as John Bryce said and there was the predictable hiccups there is probably three handfuls of gains of two yards or less for Notre Dame but Riley Leonard delivered in a way that not since I don't want to slight Jack con because he actually won a couple games coming back but Riley de letter delivered it away that not since Ian book would you have thought when the game was tied and Notre Dame was at his own 15 yard line I think he's going to drive them down the field you could see the confidence growing you realize the ball's going in his hand he had what someone called next to be one of the ugliest nine R runs you've ever seen well that's what started the drive because Riley Leonard will find a way and he actually threw one of his three best passes on that drive too hitting Bo Collins uh he has toughness he has grit he's going to have to get more accurate and he's going to be under a little bit less duress as time goes on JB and I were walking up Tim after our postgame inant analysis and I said you know what that defensive line was tough Notre Dame's offensive line even if they face even not Dame's offense faces another defensive line let's say someone manifests and becomes as good as A&M n's offense will be better at that point in the season this was the test no you're you're absolutely right and and John do your point about the scouts down on the field we were standing near the corner of the end zone there was a Minnesota Vikings Scout that clearly was staring down uh Nick scorton and and you know Tim I think you were with me there it's like okay look at all these defensive linemen yeah they they've got a bunch and and they look good but the offensive line they fought they fought the whole they they negated the pass rush which is which is really I mean it's really incredible that's they had 40 A&M had 40 sacks last year they had zero tonight and it sure it I mean it sure helps to to to your point about Riley Leonard running the football sure is nice to have a quarterback again that on First and 10 okay an ugly nine yard run or an eight yard run but now it's second and two and you really you you you open up so much more of Mike Den Brock's Playbook when he can do something like that they threw the ball to n nine different players caught passes uh I think there was at one point Tim when we said during the game like maybe you know maybe this wide receiver core isn't as far along as we thought and I think that that's still true an extent to an extent because they don't have a number one but they ended up doing so many positives in the fourth quarter that that negated a lot of the negatives that we were talking about during the game before I turn over to JB I want to point out two positives by Jaden Thomas because he's not gonna have a great year receiving Jaden Thomas saved an interception touchdown with the best offensive pass breakup I have seen in a very long time and Jaden Thomas threw a key block on jarian Price's 47 yard run and this is important Point Adam B makes Leonard is amazing at avoiding sax that's also why they did not give up sex he sees it gets rid yeah and he flowed up in the pocket a couple of different times such as it was as it was breaking down but had the presence of mind and we talked about this all the way back in August when we watched some of the the footwork drills over on the practice fields how Adept he was at avoiding the manufactured you know foam dummies that they put on the ground you've got to have your footwork between them while keeping your eyes down field he did that so adroitly in practice we saw it again tonight I thought that was significant TP you point out they had 40 sacks a year ago they had 40 sacks a year ago and also brought in Nick scorton this year to add to that sort of menacing uh defense and yeah this is the best defense that that Notre Dame will face all year I think we'll look at the NFL draft in April of 2025 and that will bear out how good this defense was and another thing I would point out it's been a really long time since Notre Dame won a game of this magnitude on the road against this type of quality opponent Marcus Freeman's had signature wins each of his first two years year one against Clemson year two against USC this is a different animal this is a different statement to the entire country and we saw on game day um a lot of the national folks did not pick Notre Dame to win and said that that College Station and the atmosphere here would be a deciding factor and I don't think the penalties were all based on the atmosphere at all some of the penalties were just guys new guys playing together for the first time ever so um you you made the reference to in book I was at a Notre Dame event Friday night uh down here in College Station and somebody was asking me um about Riley Leonard didn't know a lot and I said it's hard to express how much respect I already have for for him and I called him a rich man's Ian book so you had the Ian book reference a minute ago too and it's very pertinent but the fact of the matter is Riley Leonard is a bit more of a skilled Ian book and a larger Ian book Mitch Jeter I guess he only misses in August camp but we're there because once again he is now 24 for 26 in his career three for three tonight the faith in kicking a 46 yard field goal I mean the only way A&M can win is a blocked field goal right there or if norim goes for it and something goes wrong on a pass attempt you have to kick it because you have automatic Mitch and he proved it again today now this environment making his once he made his first one we talked about this maybe three weeks ago I just want to see Mitch Jer make his first field goal to A&M because then he's going to sail once the confidence is there he's too good to have bad days I actually think he's 25 for 27 but I'll double I'll double check that uh yeah he was great I mean two 46 yarders um I I was anticipating frankly in predicting the scores um which I did a very poor job as far as determining who the winner was uh but I was anticipating three field goals from from Mitch Jeter um and and he I mean he did a great job I I I I I spent certainly the entire first half and a large portion of the second half starting out with each snap watching Anthony knp and he just did he did a sensational job against Nick scorton and then they would move scorton over to Emil Wagner's side and he didn't do any better over on that side either now running between the tackles at times was was very difficult and we know that you know we know that Ashton Craig and Billy St are going to be good offensive lineman and S we know that Sam Pendleton and and we said this pregame Sam Pendleton and Anthony nepp are going to be good offensive lineman can they do it two hours from now they did it I mean they they really did it uh and were resilient and the fact that they you know John you point out all the stats the fact that they were have the had the kind of success that they had in the fourth quarter uh speaks a little bit to luren Lando that you know there were there were guys that were really sucking win but when it came down to it Nord Dame looked like the better conditioned football team Notre Dame when it mattered the most was dominant on the lines of scrimmage both sides of the ball in the fourth quarter to get this win you make a great point about Lauren Lando I think you make a great point about the toughness of this team tying it together a little bit more on special teams because a fabulous job from yaji and Schmidt all of those guys it's it's not just that that Mitch Jeter made those three kicks or that um James Rendell had his American college football debut and and punted five times not a bunch of beauties but for a 43 yard average but the operations were so clean on all of those and it was an entire operations Department basically that had never operated in the game before you had Reno monforte and another of the famous SOS Chris solo as the holder and then I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure you had Andrew cross as the Long Snapper he was so two new long Snappers a brand new holder and a punter and a kicker who had never kicked for you in their in this uniform before in an actual game I just think um I'll harp on the penalties double digit penalties like I've noted the third time actually it's the third time just since North Carolina state of last year 10 11 and 12 penalties in three different games NC State Duke Texas A&M all three on the road all three Road wins I think that speaks to an underlying belief that this team this program and this coaching staff have all in one another we can get back to uh the offense we have to discuss Bo Collins stepping up making a 20 yard play making almost uh causing himself 15 yards on a pening on that 20 yard play I think he'll learn from that one in this situation but the defense won the day for another rame we can talk about the offensive line rising to the occasion Riley Leonard's grit 13 points allowed and at no point did you were surprised when A&M mounted their drive for the touchdown that that's what it's come down to and I now think I do think Howard cross's usage in the first half was to allow him to play like that in the second half he had the one big sack in the first half he was out there the whole second half I think Mills might have been the only guy affected we heard some stuff about Mills might have been a little bit affected he was not out there the entire time Donovan hind just stepped up cross and Jordan Batello if you're thinking off the top of your head Jordan batell had a fantastic third quarter and also made plays in the first quarter he had one of his best days in Norm uniform and cross had his typical day in a no- uniform with a little bit less action Tim I would say that was patella's best game because of the magnitude of this game where it was I mean he he had he had six tackles which was second to Jack Kaiser's eight uh and and batella had both Notre Dame U quarterback hurries and he was just you know he was aggressive he was confident he was kind of barking a little bit we saw some of the old you know the the batell personality coming out you say aggressive and confident him he also stayed home he also stayed home the looking to leak out you think they're gonna get hit well he was waiting right there there was no play because of that yeah how about Donovan H and and Jaylen sne uh clearly their younger guys I think emphatically the best games of their young careers by sne he had and look A&M ended up scoring a play or two later it didn't matter but Sneed had a a chase down tackle behind the line of scrimmage U down near the end zone that was really good and there was another play I commented on it to Tyler James Sneed didn't make the tackle um but it was like third and 10 and he started to Blitz and he saw from the right end that that um from his side on the right end the left side of the Texas A&M offensive line that Conor Wegman was about to flush right and was about to have a whole lot of Real Estate Sneed books it down the line of scrimmage and forces Wegman to have to cut back in doesn't make the tackle but Wegman gets five yards Notre Dame makes the tackle and if I'm not mistaken Notre Dame got a defensive stop on the very next play might have been when when Texas A&M turned the ball over on downs but that was the type of mature play where we've heard he understands the game better that was recognition combined with great athleticism and it's not in any stat book but when you watch the replay I think that's one of the most significant games of the plays of the game defensively for Notre Dame very quickly turn it over to you defensively we have a couple questions fison is an ankle injury not an ACL we've had a couple questions on that uh was Evans even playing Evans did play he played five or six third down passing situation snaps only we said if Mitchell Evans was not playing at Texas S&M he would not be playing in this game today so that's just kind of wraps up the injuries on the offense yeah and I just I want to say about Drake Bowen I mean this this is the first significant playing time that he's had and in an environment like this and the importance of it he was good he he was good and there were a couple he had four tackles uh three solo which I think tied for second on the defense but like there were I know there was one or two plays where he penetrated and allowed somebody else to make a play I I mean for his first start I thought it was really a dynamic performance Jaden Ury had four tackles I think Jaden Ury is just the kind of guy that's always going to show up around the football I you know I don't know in relation to his linebacker teammates how many snaps he'll get but when he gets them they will be effective ones Adon Schuler gets his first uh interception I think Zs got his first career interception tonight too to no I think he just added to a long list that's uh that's number well yeah he had seven last year and he had seven in his career going into the day and he had another one and those guys are uh you know a Don Schuler is not a surprise to us we we had seen him make strides in the spring we saw him um you know in August and and it wasn't a surprise that he quote beat out Rod herd but Rod herd has a role on this team too he's very versatile he can play multiple spots and we'll have opportunities to do that so uh you know Christian Gray is I mean he did things today that that were very positive and exactly what we expected out of him it was just a it was a it was a great team effort nobody necessarily put up huge stats individually but as a team defense you know and that's why I mean I love the ultimately in retrospect you love the aggression of going for fourth one in the third quarter at the time you're thinking is this really because Tim remember you said even if they convert it they still have 70 yards to go for go 70 yards it wasn't the offense that was gonna go 70 yards but that's Mike Den Brock and and Marcus Freeman saying you know what we've got a matchup here we like our offensive line we think we can you know we'll we'll pound it on third down pound it on fourth down and we think that we can get it they converted the one they uh did not convert the other but if you look at the replay Riley Leonard clearly crossed the the the mark for the first down and it should have that should have continued I guess it was a little difficult to overturn the call but I if you look at replays he clearly had gained a first down so you know they took a very aggressive approach to it and hey Leonard Moore's in there when when Benjamin Morrison runs to the runs to the locker room um and they have confidence to throw Leonard more in there too so the job that El golden is doing he just keeps building upon a great resume and he just keeps adding to to to the exploits of this defense Nei neither team very good on on the money Downs third and fourth downs but Notre Dame finishes three of 15 um I think two of those three conversions came very late in the game fourth quarter something like that um or in the second half I should say um Texas A&M finishes four of 17 overall but zero of two on fourth down and I I think that's most significant obviously the late one you felt like that's the one that they sealed the game for Notre Dame but that first one that they didn't get I'm telling you um you're having a good day as a coach if you make your headset counterpart change who he is and I think Marcus Freeman's aggression made Mike Elco change who he is there in the third quarter because he went for it on on a couple of instances that I don't think Mike Elko normally would go for it especially the way his defense was playing so I just think that that's a little bit of the game within the game um that I think went the way of the Notre Dame coaching staff as much as the offensive line was a surprise in their overall performance there was a lot of stuff that we talked about how it would go and it it did exactly I said if anybody could get to 33% on third and fourth down they would win the game nobody got there but the was a little bit better there' be more punts than touchdowns that was the lock of the year you got to find one of those prop bets on this game next time because there was no chance teams were going to have to more than the touchdown scored and honestly converting on third and fourth down is something notame is going to get better at there Riley Leonard is going to be a weapon on third and fourth down and Mitchell Evans will be back on third and fourth down for this team I it's they were always going to struggle to throw this ball I think priest we walking we're like let's see how Riley Leonard throws and both like it's not gonna be very good it's not gonna be great today he's not going to have a great day passing wondering no matter what he says he's wondering about his offensive line a little bit Mike elco's bringing stuff from everywhere we talked to letter postgame he's like yeah he got me a few times where I just didn't see the protections the offense will improve Mike Dem Brock warned is that the right word on August 15th our offense I want people to judge our offense of how much better we get he knew it would be tough slighty today yeah you know Riley Leonard uh we we knew he'd run run at double digit times it was 12 times for 63 yards and I want to jum let's keep that let's get that down to eight eight next week well yeah yeah oh yeah oh absolutely next week and maybe for a couple weeks don't want to take them for granted there could be there could be an em there will be some level of emotional let down with Northern Illinois coming in but one one thing at a time I want to go back to they made Conor we they didn't make Conor Wegman look ordinary they made him look bad I mean they flat out made him look bad he was 12 for 30 two interceptions 100 yards he was sacked once um you know and the and here's the other thing and I don't and they lost a lot at wide receiver you know there's no doubt about that but I thought that they had some guy some guys Jade Walker Cyrus Ellen came from Louisiana Tech he had he had you know he had had good numbers they do a decent job of throwing the ball to to Le'Veon Moss who caught five he was targeted five times um Noah Thomas has some length you know you thought you thought it was a decent wide receiver core but between what they did with Wegman and what they did with that receiving core that receiving C is they are they are subpar but no of course Nord a secondary had a lot to do with that and Moss had a nice catch but in in a play that shades of Sam Hartman going out of bounds a yard short a year ago against Ohio State he cut inside the chain for that forced Texas A&M to have to punt from the 24 that set up Notre Dame's possession that lead led to the go-ahead and what proved to be the game-winning touchdown run from Jeremiah Love um I think that's a football IQ uh play that obviously A&M didn't make I don't think we'll see um Notre Dame make those kinds of plays maybe with the the frequency that at times we saw the Irish make them a year ago and I also think that um some of Conor Wegman's misses and some of the the receivers misses were because Notre Dame were was in their heads a little bit I I the the pressure number uh in in the postgame book saying I think Notre Dame only had two quarterback hurries or something I'm a little surprised by that because I I thought there were more times yeah they'll have a lot more come Monday come Monday when we get the the noted aim stats it'll be a lot different Pro Football Focus will have it like 17 times that many but I wanted I want to point out real fast because Kevin M says I absolutely disagree that's I wanted to ask you that it was an intelligent call to go for on fourth down at their on 35 and then at the 50 no I'm not I no it was B what was plan it was the plan Marcus Freeman said post game we planned if it's fourth and one we're going for it from which this area which I assume was most of the field if it's Fourth and two we're going for it from this area which is Midfield I was concerned on the fourth and two because you looked down you thought that's not a yard you could tell it wasn't a long one it was a legit two and I I do think he got it but it doesn't matter because you put it in the measurements hands that's how close it is these guys are gonna shove you back too Riley Leonard's a big dude he's not running into those guys and knocking all these guys over on Fourth and two if he's up if he's too far ight if I if I said it was an intelligent move I I I misspoke because no it was a gutsy gutsy it was a gutsy it it was a plan they had a plan that was what they and they had a plan and it it I mean to me and I asked Marcus Freeman about this afterwards I mean it's like we're gonna be aggressive we're gonna we are going to try to win the game I no I didn't I didn't dis I didn't agree with it I hear you but uh we're sitting here talking about notame Victory so um you know I think that's just all part of Marcus Freeman's growth I he he Pro he probably wouldn't have tried that last year the year before but he has a great deal of confidence in this team and you can see by the way this team plays that they they are gaining greater confidence in themselves as they move forward and and just real quickly on fison I know we touched on it a little bit and said it was an ankle not an ACL or anything like that and Marcus Freeman specifically saying uh Jeremy came back up to him and said I'm I'm good coach I'm okay I would be surprised if Faison plays next week against or Northern Illinois may not see him again until the game with with I think or or maybe Miami of Ohio with Purdue really struggling the week after that for a road game but again not not a ligament injury and Marcus Freeman sharing with us directly that Faison told him Point Blank I'm good coach I think we mentioned this but coach hump has such a good point I'm gonna mention it again don't fail to mention the great job Mike mickens is doing especially having a true freshman in letter boore who is not an early en rol Le we often mention how great a job Mike mickens is doing and that was another part we did talk about pregame Tim I don't know which defensive Line's going to be play better I know which secondary is going to play better no naal analysts were wrong about Notre Dame's secondary being vulnerable in this game that was ni sa Nick sa was wrong that was never a thing that was never part of this game especially and Wegman could have been hot and they would not have had a bad day the secondary is better than other teams receivers and quarterbacks starting today through Game 12 yeah and in In fairness and Nick when we were talking about this earlier in the day these guys on national TV they they it is impossible for them to know everything about every team that they're talking about and you know Nick Sabin is is was was talking about the the the knowledge base that he had about that but no you're right Tim to all-americans Christian Gray is I don't know if he'll ever yeah I mean I don't know if he'll ever be an All-American but he's going to be one hell of a e already becoming a I think he'll be an all yeah yeah I mean I think there's there's there's certainly a chance of that and and you know Don Schuler I I just um they've got it going on back there and Mike mickens is one hell of a coach and and the progress that he made with Benjamin Morrison a couple years ago uh the progress that he made with Cam Hart he's a hell of a coach they're good he's a hell he's a hell of a freaking evaluator too boys we've talked about it a bunch but um he found s Gardner before anybody found him at Cincinnati and had much stronger opinions with him than Marcus Freeman did and marusan said he didn't see it in SAU yeah and Marcus Freeman has ad has admitted that I'm not spilling any tea here but mickens uh was really high on Ben Morrison Christian Gray um they I think they're seeing some s Garder um traits already in Leonard Moore I think that's important to note um that that's been whispered around the goog that he's he's reminiscent of s Gardner as a freshman and maybe better than S Gardner a freshman um so he really has he really has excellent length and I remember in one of our first uh uh practice sessions you know our our five period observation uh seeing him and Carson Hobs like they like Carson Hobs too but he's not quite ready and and I it was like you know what they're both listed to the same height but clearly Leonard Leonard Moore has more length to him and um you know they weren't afraid to throw him in there you still have Jaden Mickey Jaden Mickey gave up a was had a third down conversion it's gonna happen though yeah no it's it's gonna happen it just sort of happen no no but he you know he needs to get better this is third year and he needs to get better but everybody else I mean everybody else has really taken incremental steps up as much as I like this Andrew Cochran edone mentioned that this is our first W against a ranked SEC team on the road in 20 years there's two things about that the last one was in JB stomping grounds against Tennessee uh also that Notre name team beating Tennessee just didn't matter all that much in the National scheme of things it was Tyrone willingham's last year he was fired a month later and how many of they played Georgia like 0 and one in the last 20 years it's not like it's that on the SEC Road games they don't do a lot of SEC Road games no they don't I mean they've never they've never been to they've never been to Auburn they've never been to Arkansas L's been over 25 years so I think it's yeah it's a big win look number two number 20 of Texas who to win this game we need to bring this up because I teased it pregame incid analysis if they win it's the biggest most important win since for Notre Dame to start a season since 2018 when it shot them to 12 and0 if they lose we're talking about how well Texas A&M's a really good team Notre Dame tried really hard they deserve a lot of credit with their young offensive line but JB pointed out no it is time Al golden Mike demock Marcus Freeman third year all the veterans you could want you have an All-American up front two all-americans in the back Kaiser in the middle you have to win this game and they did find the way yeah and I was win this game tonight I was in the neand stadium Press Box 20 years ago uh in that game that I think how come you didn't say hi to me JB you were so arrogant and your Tweed Jack I knew I just absolutely I don't think I don't think I was wearing jackets yet at that time but um you know Notre Dame turned that game around in 2004 uh when they injured Eric a on like the last play of the first half when Philip Fulmer got bizarrely aggressive and I think Notre Dame ended up winning 1713 17-10 Tennessee ended up being a 10- win team that beat the hell out of Texas A&M in the cotton bow that year um but Notre Dame upsetting them that day really changed the trajectory of their season um and to your point about the not many SEC games there's a lot of SEC teams that haven't had the courage to play Notre Dame Hing away Arkansas Arkansas did at least have it scheduled and it got messed up because of the co year and everything else recently I want to point out and I want I want to say this because he is a colleague of ours now in the industry it was Mike gby that had the big play in that in that Tennessee game at the end Mike gby had a great game against Tennessee in that one but it's yeah not doesn't play a whole lot of SC teams down here but but now they're one and one their last two chances Yeah Tim I somebody pointed out something about kba was in on that fourth and two he had three tackles you know he he is just so naturally comfortable he as soon as he as soon as he started practice iing with Notre Dame it was obvious he was very comfortable doing that I thought he looked comfortable tonight aggressive physical um think about the performance of Bowen and KVA in their first game in this venue it's it's impressive and I'm glad you said that because I want to wrap it up here soon but Chief and Tech or Chef in Tech said how was being at Kyle Field for you guys we could get into that because it was an incredible atmosphere down there that this place is massive John I'm not sure I haven't been to Knoxville in 20 years I was there twice and I said it and I stood in the top row and I was never on the field in my life during a game this feels like the biggest place I've been I been on the field in nville like the view that we have out here as I'm looking into the stadium is like the third deck is in heaven it I it is it's just letter said I couldn't see the end of the stadium he looked not see the end of the stadium you just stole my anecdote there they actually um they actually station air traffic controllers on the top floor uh the top row of the upper decks on each end no I'm joking uh this is the largest um telling the truth this is the largest stadium in Texas we heard that I don't know about 19 times today because it's part of their uh public address systems announcement every time that um being at cyfield is discussed but it was a great environment we felt the stadium Shake pregame we felt it shake a few times when it got loud uh in in the second half particularly you feel the Press Box quite literally swaying back and forth um it was it was really good I've not been to a white out in in Happy Valley I would like to do that but um this was 17,500 they've squeezed in 111,000 here right just short of 111 last year against Old Miss then set it with 111 for George straight earlier this year they left a little happier that day indeed that the Press Box was absolutely swaying back and forth and that's a little bit that's a little bit unsettling I'm impressed that they have a warning don't worry our Press Box is going to shake or whatever that yeah they do wildly intimidating when I read that it's kind of like the skyscrapers in in uh San Francisco they've actually it's actually been constructed to be able to sway like that but it is if you if you don't read the warning label it is disconcerting it is midnight we have stories to write I'd like to thank John Bryce of footballscoop.com Tim PRI of irch Illustrated and Kyle Field for providing me with this Irish green background thank you for watching Illustrated Irish Illustrated overtime notame 23 Texas A&M 13