Notre Dame Defense Needs To Continue To Improve Against An Effective Boise State Offense
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Sean, in part two of today's show here on the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought to you by Fandul. |
| 0:24.0 | We're talking Notre Dame's defense versus the Boise State offense. |
| 0:27.0 | And similar conversation to what we had when we talked Notre Dame's offense versus the Boise State defense, |
| 0:32.4 | this is strength versus struggle. |
| 0:34.5 | But the strength of Boise State's team has been their offense. |
| 0:37.6 | The struggling aspect for Notre Dame's team so far this season has been their defense. |
| 0:41.3 | Now, they had a good step forward against Arkansas. |
| 0:45.2 | But like we talked about in yesterday's show, that's the anomaly. |
| 0:50.3 | When you're bad against Miami, abysmal against Texas A&M, you're against Purdue, |
| 0:57.8 | and then you're pretty good against Arkansas. |
| 1:01.4 | What defense is it? |
| 1:02.7 | What kind of defense are you? |
| 1:04.7 | And this isn't an offense that's going to wait for you to sit around and figure out what type of defense you are, Sean. |
| 1:11.2 | I mean, when you go and you look at the numbers, Boise State on offense, this has been the clear |
| 1:15.9 | strength of their team. They averaged 38.5 points a game. They average 7.1 yards per play, |
| 1:21.4 | 520 total yards of offense, 299 passing yards, 221 rushing yards, both ranked 20th in the country. |
| 1:29.6 | It's a very balanced team. |
| 1:31.4 | They're a balanced team that does a really good job of taking care of the football |
| 1:34.5 | and limiting negative plays. |
| 1:36.2 | They've only given up three sacks on the year. |
| 1:39.5 | They've only thrown one interception on the year. |
| 1:42.2 | They've only allowed 20 tackles for a loss this season, which ranks inside of the top |
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