Notre Dame Needs To Get Off To A Fast Start vs Duke

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00:00 And the first one for me is Notre Dame is going to have to be a better starting football

00:08 team when you look at the bigger games.

00:14 And if you look at Notre Dame through five games, they're actually averaging over 20

00:18 points in the first half.

00:21 That's their season total so far this season.

00:24 And I'm actually going to pull this statistic up.

00:26 Notre Dame has scored 101 points in the first half and they've scored 97 points in the second

00:33 half and currently they're averaging 39.6 points per game.

00:39 But here's the problem.

00:42 They have overwhelmed inferior opponents early in games and they have not been a team that

00:49 has been able to go out and get those same fast starts against the better teams in the

00:55 schedule.

00:56 And I heard, and this is going to be relevant to Duke, so when I was watching the Clemson

01:00 game at the time, the announcers made an interesting observation that last season, Mike Elko in

01:07 his first year at Duke was 7-0 in games where Duke scored first.

01:14 And so far this season, Duke has scored first in all four of their games, which means that

01:18 when they score first, they're 11-0.

01:21 And that's a team that starts fast in those moments and Notre Dame is a team that needs

01:27 to start fast against Duke.

01:29 They're going to have to start fast against Louisville, USC, Clemson, and in those bigger

01:33 games.

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