The main threat to the Longhorns will be the Fighting Irish’s ground attack, per College Sports.
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For the second straight year, Notre Dame and Texas will begin their college football seasons against one another. The rest of the Notre Dame wide receivers combined to average a modest 7.8 yards per target, which is actually below the national average for wide receivers.
Notre Dame last played a non-Saturday regular-season game 20 years ago when it defeated Vanderbilt 14-7 on a Thursday. Prosise is gone, but injured incumbent starter Tarean Folston is back and joined by Josh Adams, who had more than 800 yards as a freshman in 2015.
Notre Dame has 892 victories, while the Longhorns have 886. I don’t have words for what it would mean to go and see Notre Dame.
While Notre Dame’s offense will still be strong the defense is likely to be worse than last year’s pretty mediocre unit. Come game time, ease your way back into the season with whatever (classy) venting suits you best. Texas quarterbacks completed only 55% of their passes last season and there were 6 games in which the Longhorns averaged 3.2 yards per pass play or less.
Everything is bigger in Texas – including the football games! According to two different Austin radio stations, 104.9 FM The Horn and AM 1300 The Zone (via 247Sports), Buechele will get the start Sunday, so it will be his job to keep what should be a raucous crowd in the game. But as Ohio State’s 2015 struggles with finding a quarterback showed, playing more than one quarterback isn’t without potential bad consequences.
But it’s Notre Dame that’s had more of the success and prestige of late.
“I know we’re going to start”, Coach Strong said, per CSN Chicago.
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While the Longhorns and the Fighting Irish both want their teams to win, sitting on the 50-yard-line will be proof that sometimes even rivals can get along. They were also 3-2 at the betting window on the road last season, but just 1-2 against the number as a road favorite.
