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Best of IB: Biggest Spring Questions For The Notre Dame Offense

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Sports, Football, Big Ten, Nfl Draft, Ncaa Team, Notre Dame

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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0:00.0

All right, Brian, part two of today show here in the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought to you by our friends over at Fanduil. We're going to be talking about the Notre Dame offense and kind of their outlook going into spring. Now, there's been a lot of hype around this unit. And rightfully so. Mike Denbrock is going into his third year. You have a very highly talented recruit or a wide receiver room. Your running back room is still loaded with talent.

0:38.9

And you have your first returning starting quarterback under center since 2020 when

0:42.9

Ian Book came back.

0:44.5

Oh, and by the way, CJ Carr is also a preseason Heisman favorite by outlets like ESPN.

0:50.2

I know other right.

0:51.0

Bill Connolly talked about him being the best number one quarterback, quarterback coming back in college football.

0:56.3

He's also the preseason Heisman favorite by our friends over at Fandul.

0:59.3

So lots of reason to be excited about this group, but there are also some questions,

1:04.9

and that's what we're going to address apart to.

1:06.6

And by the way, they just scored more points in the season than any team since like 1912.

1:12.9

They just set a modern record since World War II ended in yards per play.

1:18.4

And it wasn't close.

1:20.4

I mean, they were over 7.3, their previous record, which was set by the 2015 team that had

1:24.5

Will Fuller, C.J. Pro Seize, Josh Adams, Mike McGlinchy, Quentin Nelson,

1:28.5

Ronnie Stanley, Al-Azay Matt, Chris Brown, Amir Carlisle, you know, and it was like by point

1:34.7

three. Like that's a big difference. So yeah, lots of reasons to be excited, but there's also,

1:42.6

I think, more questions on this side of the ball.

1:45.3

Like when we do our biggest questions on the spring on defense next week,

1:48.5

it's not going to be a lot of significant questions outside of one, Chris Ash.

1:52.8

What does he do?

1:54.5

With offense, I do think there's a lot of questions because I think with the offense,

1:58.6

a lot of the conversation, Trevor, outside, even including

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