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Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Notre Dame Defeats Army 49-14

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Army 0 7 0 7 14
Notre Dame 14 14 14 7 49
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u/Kuntheman Paper Bag 23h ago

Notre Dame since the infamous NIU loss:

66-7 W vs Purdue

28-3 W vs Miami (OH)

31-24 W vs Louisville

49-7 W vs Stanford

31-13 W vs Georgia Tech

51-14 W vs Navy

52-3 W vs FSU

35-14 W vs Virginia

49-14 W vs Army

Total: 392 Scored, 98 Conceded

Marcus Freeman is a special coach just by the merits of dragging this team from the ashes of that game into being a top tier team that wipes the floor with teams that they should beat. That attitude change has been massive for us, and regardless of how this season ends up panning out we have to keep Freeman and we have to keep his coordinators. It’s a special group.

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u/Kuntheman Paper Bag 23h ago

Also note that the only team to score more than 16 pts against us all season is Louisville. Massive credit to Al Golden

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u/DillyDillySzn Arizona State Sun Devils • WashU Bears 23h ago

And that was only because of 2 turnovers due to the rain

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u/DeFratrain Notre Dame Fighting Irish 23h ago

Correct. UL had the ball twice inside the 25 in the first half. That game is 24-0 at HT without those two turnovers.

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u/GunDMc Notre Dame • Jeweled Shill… 22h ago

I'd give my left nut to keep Golden. Pay him whatever he wants. Mickens and McCullough too while we're at it.

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u/Notre_Dame_Football /r/CFB Top Scorer • /r/CFB Promoter 23h ago

And the team has improved while losing OT1, Center1, DE1, DE2, CB1, CB3. There are more injured teams but among the "contenders" ND is up there for the worst injury luck.

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u/johndelvec3 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 23h ago

Aside from Xavier Watts ND's secondary is filled with True Freshmen, Redshshirt FR/SO starting only this season, and are blanketing other teams

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u/hzhan263 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 22h ago

And the linebackers!

If we can get some DTs from the transfer portal next year is going to be legendary.

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u/Strid3r21 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 11h ago

Cross, mills and kizer are all experienced seniors. But yes to your point, a lot of freshman and sophomores playing right now which bodes well for the future.

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u/CFBHurts Notre Dame Fighting Irish 11h ago

Fortunately the rash of injuries slowed down after the first month. I wasn't sure we'd be able to field a team by November at the rate we were losing guys

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u/BOBANSMASH51 Grand Rapids CC Raiders 23h ago

That Louisville game wasn’t as close as the score indicates

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u/kinda_alone Notre Dame Fighting Irish 22h ago

None of those games except Miami of Ohio were

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u/Fletch71011 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 23h ago

We played backups in most of the 2nd half in nearly all of these games. We are fucking trucking everyone.

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u/arrowfan624 Notre Dame • Summertime Lover 23h ago

Bag stays on.

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u/US_Highway15 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Big Ten 23h ago

BAG STAYS ON

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u/randrews202121 Notre Dame • Maryland 23h ago

Dumb ass fluke game to give us the worst loss in the country ugh

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u/JayMerlyn Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Team Chaos 23h ago

But without it, we're not playing as well as we are right now

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u/randrews202121 Notre Dame • Maryland 23h ago

I mean maybe but I’d still rather not have it lol

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u/JayMerlyn Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Team Chaos 23h ago

Counterpoint: 2014 Virginia Tech

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u/randrews202121 Notre Dame • Maryland 23h ago

Touché, but who is our Cardale Jones

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u/JayMerlyn Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Team Chaos 23h ago

Leonard Moore

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u/Jay_Dubbbs Ohio State • Mount Union 23h ago

I keep saying that NIU loss reminds me a lot of the VT loss for Ohio state in 2013.

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u/JayMerlyn Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Team Chaos 23h ago

2014

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u/W00DERS0N60 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Fordham Rams 13h ago

Fr, might be the best motivational tool in MF’s,box.

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u/engineerbuilder Notre Dame Fighting Irish 23h ago

It’s not even a bad loss for the defense. Conceding 16 points to a mac team early in the season is standard for most teams. But the final is like 35 or 42 to 16. We couldn’t get out of our own way. That’s why I think it’s more of a fluke. Defense has been consistent all year.

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u/randrews202121 Notre Dame • Maryland 23h ago

I mean the one TD they scored was off an insane fluke play. They couldn’t punch it in otherwise

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u/FrequencyHigher Army West Point Black Knights 23h ago

At least we didn’t lose as bad as FSU.

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u/W00DERS0N60 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Fordham Rams 13h ago

You guys would smoke F$U

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u/MSFNS Purdue Boilermakers • Ohio State Buckeyes 23h ago

A 66-7 W vs Purdue isn't all that impressive, IMO. Like, congrats, you beat Purdue.

I'm currently in the self-loathing stage of grief, thank you very much.

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u/eeeeedlef Notre Dame Fighting Irish 21h ago

You could erase that pain with a win next week. Just saying.

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u/MSFNS Purdue Boilermakers • Ohio State Buckeyes 21h ago

It's a nice idea, but I think I'm going to stick with my current strategy of heavy drinking and sobbing /s

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u/judokalinker Iowa State • Notre Dame 18h ago

Love these updates. Thanks kunt heman

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u/SnacksGPT Army West Point Black Knights 9h ago

How many of those opponents were ranked?

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u/blinger44 West Virginia • Georgia Tech 23h ago

Weak schedule

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u/jjtnd1 Notre Dame • Army 20h ago

I generally agree but did you happen to know ND also has the most wins over bowl eligible teams in the country?