Notre Dame Pass Defense vs. Indiana Pass Offense Will Be Huge

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🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Notre Dame has one of the nation's best pass defenses and Indiana has one of the best pass offenses in the country. Those two units will square off in one of the best good on good matchups of the first round. Bryan and Trevor break down the Indiana pass offense and what Notre Dame is up against. 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, this is the truly good on good matchup in this game. This is the one. Notre Dame comes into this
0:24.1	game, as you see here in the statistics, third in the country and fewish pass yards allowed,
0:28.4	second and passing yards allowed per attempt. Number one, pass completion against defense in the
0:33.1	country. Third and fewest touchdowns allowed. in most interceptions number one pass efficiency
0:38.9	defense in the country they don't allow a lot of big plays only 10 plays of 30 yards or more all
0:44.7	season which ranks 17th against an Indiana team that ranks 29th in the nation in passing
0:50.5	yards part of that because they've had some fourth quarter games they've've not thrown the ball a whole lot. And number three in yards per attempt,
0:57.9	number nine in yards per completion, number eight in completion percentage, fifth in most
1:01.7	touchdowns, fifth and fewest interceptions. And as I said before, Notre Dame has the number one
1:06.0	pass efficiency defense. Indiana has the number one pass efficiency offense. Notre Dame ranks 17th and
1:13.1	fewest plays of 30 yards or more allowed. Indiana ranks 24th and most plays of 30 yards or more
1:19.1	21. Notre Dame ranks 30th or 37th in the country in sacks per game. Indiana ranks 41st in
1:26.6	the country in sacks allowed. Very, very, very
1:30.9	similar statistical football teams. And this is kind of what they do best. The run game at Indiana
1:39.4	is solid. We just broke it down, but it is a complement to this part of the game. Notre Dame's run defense
1:46.1	is solid, but they're an elite past defense, and they have been for really the last two and a half
1:50.9	years, really. And you start, and even at times in 2022, I mean, they did a great job shutting
1:56.1	Ohio State down in 2022 with C.J. Stroud, right? They've faced Drake May, shut him down. He got all his yards
2:03.6	in the fourth quarter when they were pulling starters in the game was like 45 to 17. They did a great
2:08.6	job against Jaron Hall for BYU that year. They did a great job against Caleb Williams last year.
2:13.4	They did it. I mean, they have gone against big time quarterback, big time quarterback, big time receiver.
2:19.1	We saw him against Marvin Harrison and Emeka Buka last year. They held Marvin Harrison to less than 100 yards
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