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Notre Dame Offense, Run Game Must Handle Indiana’s Dynamic Defense

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

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Notre Dame’s offense is the key to ultimate success against the Indiana Hoosiers in the first round of the College Football Playoff. The run game specifically must get going, but Indiana has the nation’s No. 1 rush defense. Bryan and Trevor break down this matchup, and discuss what makes Notre Dame’s run game so good, and Indiana’s run defense to challenging. Shop for Irish Breakdown gear at our online store: https://ibstore.irishbreakdown.com/  Join the Irish Breakdown premium message board: https://boards.irishbreakdown.com  Stay locked into Irish Breakdown for all the latest news and analysis about Notre Dame: https://www.irishbreakdown.com​ Subscribe to the Irish Breakdown podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/irish-breakdown/id1485286986 Like and follow Irish Breakdown on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/irishbreakdown Sign up for the FREE Irish Breakdown daily newsletter: https://www.subscribepage.com/irish-breakdown-newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So Trev, that's done. That's done. That's over with. They signed Marcus Freeman. He's good to go. Now we can dive into the Notre Dame matchup with the offense against the Indiana defense. And, you know, Trev, this, just looking at a big picture, this is a huge, huge matchup. Like obviously in a playoff game, both sides of the

0:38.1

ball are big matchups. Like, they're huge matchups. But the Notre Dame defense against the Indian

0:44.4

offense is going to be a huge matchup as well. We're going to talk about that tomorrow. But we do

0:48.0

expect there to be some level of they're both going to have some level of success against each other.

0:54.2

Notre Dame is going to have their moments. Notre Dame's going to have their moments.

0:55.6

The defense is going to have their moments.

0:57.0

I think this matchup right here is without a doubt the most impactful matchup in whether

1:04.5

or not Notre Dame can win this football game because a lot of the talk about Indiana,

1:09.2

when you look at kind of their success this season,

1:11.7

a lot of people talk about their offense, but not enough people talk about how good their

1:15.3

defense has been this season. And you can talk all you want about them, played anybody, and

1:19.5

all those things are true. They have not really played any elite offenses. And I don't

1:23.6

think Ohio State is an elite offense this season either. You and I have talked a lot about that this season,

1:29.8

but they haven't played a lot of teams that are great scoring teams,

1:32.5

but I don't care who you're playing.

1:35.0

When you're giving up 14.7 points per game in a Power 5 conference like the Big 10,

1:39.2

I don't care if you are playing the bottom half of that league.

1:41.9

And you're only given up 244.8 yards per game and 4.1 yards per play.

1:46.5

Trevor, I don't care what league you're in.

1:48.9

That's really good.

1:50.7

I don't care what part of the league you're playing.

1:52.8

That's really good.

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