So, you know, I’m in the meetings. “They’re big and physical and athletic”. Those people have their agendas on why they do things. “We can go vertical”. The Texas outgained the Irish through the air and on the ground and rolled up 517 total yards, as offensive coordinator Sterlin Gilbert introduced himself to the college football world in a major way.
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Fighting Irish fans have been less than pleased with defenses that have ranked 73rd and 45th in total defense over the past two seasons and they were looking for big signs of improvement in this year’s season-opener.
“If he wants to be on the headset, I got him on the headset”. Going to need one or two takeaways in this game to get the W. It’s obviously a great recruiting hotbed for all universities.
The Wolf Pack opened the season Friday with a 30-27 overtime victory over Cal Poly, a team from the FCS.
The Brent Pease-led offense continued to run the football up the middle in the style of a Sean Kugler-led squad, but there were flashes of Pease as well.
Notre Dame quarterback DeShone Kizer, who split series with Malik Zaire early in the game, was outstanding. Hunter was trying to corral what would have been a 19-yard touchdown pass from QB DeShone Kizer on third down, but the hit jarred the ball loose.
“I love this offense I’m in right now”, Buechele said. “Before we do that, we don’t have any plans to make any decisions”. It doesn’t take a genius to figure that one out.
Now, with everything good that happened on Sunday, let’s talk about why Texas isn’t back just yet.
This is Nevada’s second all-time trip to South Bend.
“They’re physical”, Boone said. Kelly and Brian VanGorder went with the veteran duo of Drue Tranquill and Sebastian due to their experience and steady play. They line up and say, ‘Here we are.
“We work too hard and we sacrificed too much to feel good in any way”, Kelly said following Sunday’s loss. The quarterback is 6-4, 240, the running back is 235 or 240 pounds. “Balls that got thrown over our head, we were in Cover 3”.
It marked just the eighth time Notre Dame has given up 50 points, all of them losses.
Starting the OT in Austin with a bang, Swoopes’ three yard run, but unfortunately for UT, Notre Dame answered with a 25-yard screen pass to C.J Sanders on its first play. Kelly said the media was “jumping the gun” by criticizing VanGorder or the state of Notre Dame’s defense. “It’s going to take some time, but they’re athletic kids that will continue to develop and we’ll get better each and every week”. “Clearly, we’ve got to coach better”. Notre Dame had several chances to put Texas away late in the game and once again the Irish came up short.
– Texas A&M is in at No. 20 after beating UCLA, then No. 16, in overtime.
– Kelly said that defensive end Jay Hayes did not play against Texas because he is not 100 percent healthy and the staff was anxious about the 6-foot-3, 285-pound junior getting on and off the field against the Longhorn offense’s tempo.
Buechele didn’t, and instead delivered big time with 280 yards passing and a pair of touchdowns before Tyrone Swoopes, the senior he beat out for the job, punched in a lunging 6-yard touchdown in the second overtime for a thrilling 50-47 win Sunday night.
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Notre Dame: The Irish play their home opener against Nevada on Saturday. “We’re not going there to keep it close”. Brown (five catches for 75 yards and two touchdowns in his first start) and running back Tarean Folston, who missed most of last season because of a torn ACL. It was no secret what Texas wanted to do with him; Notre Dame just couldn’t stop it.
