Gentlemen, in part three of the post-game show here on the Iris Breakdown podcast, brought to you by our friends over at Fandul.

We're talking Notre Dame's defense today, and fellas, this was an elite performance today from this group, an elite performance.

The first team defense didn't allow Pitt to get into the end zone today.

Their only touchdown up until that final play of the game was on a pick six.

They had 81 total yards of offense at the half.

They were 0 of 7 at the half on third down.

They finished game 0 of 13 on third down.

This defense was on one.

So, Brian, I'm going to kick it to you.

I know you got to get the bouncing here soon.

Brian, takeaways from the defense, man.

Notre Dame's starting defense out.

Uh-oh.

Like, can you guys hear me?

Sorry.

Yep, now we can.

Notre Dame's starting defense today's outscored pit starting offense.

Think about that. You got a pick six and a two-point conversion.

And like that's a pretty darn good performance. I thought first drive, I thought

Chris Ash was feeling pit out a little bit, playing a little bit of soft coverage early, hit a couple

throws. And I was like, oh, this is going to be a rough day. I didn't love that they kept

leaving Drake bowing on him. So like, let's get the negatives out of the way.

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