My biggest thought process in, you know, at half time, you know, at halftime, outside of making, making sure my kids were going to go to bed so, you know, I could actually enjoy the second half was, you know, let's see what Mike Denbrock's going to do.

You know, I want to see now, let's see the adjustments at halftime.

Let's see where Notre Dame is coming out because they're going to receive, right? We knew they

were going to get the ball first. Let's see what they think is working, what they think is not working.

Let's see what happens here in the second half. That was my biggest takeaway, because you're right,

as bad as we think that they played offensively, and I don't think anybody's going to stand here

and be like, that offense that we saw in the first half is going to win them a national

championship. None of us are sitting here saying that by any stretch of the imagination, right?

So it was, okay, what are they going to do in the second half to change it up? You know, to, you know,

they've now seen it. They've seen what Elko wants to do defensively against them. What are they

going to do? Right. So here they go. Their name gets the ball. Pass to Flanagan, nine yards,

run, run, run on fourth down, incomplete to Ford in the flat, which is essentially a run.

Run, scramble for 10.

And then you get to the fourth downplay that should have been a first down that they reviewed.

And they said it wasn't a first down.

But I think you kind of saw, okay, we think we can run against these guys.

We think that there's something here that we can do and we can use Riley as well

to force the issue in the run game.

I mean, look, Marcus Freeman said it at a halftime.

We're a run first team.

And anybody that doesn't understand that hasn't been paying attention.

He wants to be a run first team. He wants to be explosive in the air but he also wants to be a run first team

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