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Notre Dame Keys To Victory vs Boise State - Defense Edition

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

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Breaking down the keys to victory for Notre Dame in their matchup against Boise State

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0:00.0

All right, Brian, and part two of today's show here on the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by Fandul.

0:24.5

We're talking the keys to victory for the Notre Dame defense.

0:27.5

This is an interesting conversation because the shining light for Boise State this season has been their offense.

0:33.8

First game, they were figuring out what their identity was without Ash and Genty as they're starting running back.

0:38.4

It's the first time they played a game without him in the backfield in two years.

0:42.0

And as the weeks have gone on, they've started to find a little bit more of an offensive identity.

0:47.1

This is kind of that strength versus struggle that we talked about.

0:49.8

Notre Dame's defense had a good performance against Arkansas, but they're going to have to build on it.

0:55.2

And they're going to have to make sure that they continue with sending. So the first key to victory

0:59.9

for this unit, Brian, it's plain and simple. You have to be disciplined. And I think you could take

1:04.3

that in a bunch of different directions. But Brian, key number one, stay disciplined on defense.

1:09.0

This is a, this isn't like a vintage Boise offense, but philosophically, they're very

1:14.1

similar to what Boise's always been.

1:16.8

And what does that mean?

1:18.1

A lot of motions, a lot of shifts, a lot of different personnel groupings.

1:22.2

They're going to do a lot of things to create extra gaps in the offensive line for the run

1:26.6

game.

1:27.5

And by creating extra gaps, even out of 11 personnel, Trev, they'll put a tight end with

1:34.0

an outside receiver, and then they'll bring Latrell Capels and put him in a wing

1:37.8

and have him block wide.

1:39.7

And what that does is that adds an extra gap to their run game.

1:43.7

Sometimes they'll run away from it and then

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