What We Learned About Notre Dame vs Ohio State
What We Learned About Notre Dame vs Ohio State
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00:00 Number one, this is a really talented football team in the trenches and athletically.
00:10 It's not where it needs to be completely, especially from an athleticism standpoint,
00:14 or I shouldn't say athleticism standpoint, a perimeter standpoint, a couple other positions
00:19 where it's just not quite where it needs to be to truly be elite, but still very good.
00:26 This is also a football team to me that the depth obviously is there.
00:35 We see the depth from this football team.
00:39 This is a team that's willing to fight.
00:41 It's a team that's not afraid of the moment, all that kind of stuff wrapped into one.
00:45 But then there's two other aspects about this football team that also go together.
00:50 Number one is that Notre Dame is still not there yet, and they're still that almost program.
00:58 The difference between this game and some of those other almost games is you look back
01:04 at this game, and like with the Georgia game in 2017 and 2019, you look back at that Georgia
01:10 game and you say, "Boy, Notre Dame played their butts off, and they just weren't good
01:14 enough."
01:16 Some things this other team did kind of let Notre Dame stay in the game, and then Notre
01:20 Dame had some areas where they were pretty good that they took advantage of, but you
01:23 just came out of those games and say, "Man, they're just not there yet."
01:28 I had a different reaction come out of this game.
01:30 This game was not only should they have beat Ohio State, but they should have beat Ohio
01:35 State convincingly.
01:38 Beating Ohio State convincingly, I'm not talking about blowing them out like the Michigan game,
01:40 I'm talking about this should have been a 21 to 10, 24 to 14, 27, 17 type of game, but
01:49 Notre Dame couldn't take advantage of the opportunities that were there, the slow start
01:55 that Ohio State had to impart to Notre Dame defense, the missed opportunities that Ohio
02:00 State had to impart to the Notre Dame defense, and they just couldn't get over that hump.
02:07 They couldn't do what they needed to do to take that step.
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