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Notre Dame vs Texas A&M: Stacking Up the Irish Defense

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

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Notre Dame holds a significant on paper advantage over Texas A&M, but is that how the game will play out? Bryan dives into the matchup between the Irish defense and the improved Aggie offense. 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

part two.

0:18.0

Let's look at the matchup of the Nurtain against the Notre Dame offense or the Texanam offense.

0:23.0

And this is where, like, if you go back and look at the offensive numbers against Notre Dame's offense, A&M's defense,

0:29.6

you know, they're somewhat competitive.

0:32.2

There's the assumption that the offensive line for Notre Dame will struggle enough to where it makes it a battle that A&M potentially could win.

0:40.4

But Notre Dame has the advantage in the past game.

0:42.6

A&M has the advantage of the run game, but they were both good last year.

0:45.7

Overall scoring, Notre Dame has clear as the advantage.

0:48.4

When you flip the argument to the other side, it's not close.

0:52.5

It's far bigger gap between the A&M offense last year and the

0:56.4

NERNM defense last year. Notre Dame will have the same defense that did last year schematically.

1:01.2

Obviously, there's a new players. A&M is going to look a whole lot different. And that's going to

1:04.4

make this a very intriguing, a breakdown to dive into because when you look at at Texas A&M running the football last year,

1:13.8

it's an offense that struggled to run the football.

1:16.0

They rank 92nd into country and yards per game, 95th in yards per play, 100th and a

1:21.1

hundredth in a yard 20 plus runs.

1:24.4

They only had 11, and they ranked 42nd in tackles for loss allowed.

1:28.8

Notre Dame's run defense last year, ranked 28th overall, 24th in yards per attempt,

1:33.6

48th and 20 plus yard runs allowed.

1:37.2

They were 53rd in tackles for loss.

1:39.1

This isn't a team that generated a ton of tackles for loss last season.

1:41.6

But the overall numbers clearly give the advantage

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