Notre Dame Defense Was Outstanding Against Pitt

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00:03 >> Vince, let's dive into the offense, man.

00:05 Let's talk about the Notre Dame offense from, or defense, excuse me.

00:08 Let's talk defense first, because when you play the way that Notre Dame played

00:11 defense today, you deserve to get talked about more.

00:14 >> Yeah.

00:15 >> Another outstanding performance by this unit, Vince.

00:17 As we talked about, they held Pitt to 255 yards.

00:21 What did I say, 129 of that was against the backup defense in the fourth quarter.

00:26 If I'm looking at these stats correctly, Pitt had two drives in the fourth quarter,

00:32 that started in the fourth quarter.

00:34 One of them ended in the fourth quarter, so they had two fourth quarter drives.

00:37 So they got 92 yards in the fourth quarter alone.

00:41 So I'm not good at math, but that's a big chunk of your total yardage you got

00:45 in the fourth quarter against Notre Dame's backups.

00:47 >> Right, and then the other 37-yard drive where they punted was also against

00:52 the backup unit.

00:53 >> Right, they put their backups in- >> Except for Nickel.

00:56 >> Right, except for Nickel.

00:58 But just an excellent, excellent game.

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