SOUTH BEND – A preview of Notre Dame’s 10th season and the atlantic coast conference’s inaugural victory (27-13) Duke . . .
• A never-before-written line: Notre Dame is tied for first place at the convention after Saturday’s victory. The Irish play this season as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Sophomore Safety Kyle Hamilton made seven tackles, the second highest number on the team, before returning in the third quarter with an obvious leg/left ankle injury. If there is one player that the defender cannot lose, if this team cannot lose, it is the No. 14. No Hamilton fits everything in the back of the Irish defense, not for the better.
Second-year Irishman Kyren Williams demonstrated why he got the ball-carrying position at fall camp. Williams ran for 112 yards on 19 hauls with two touchdowns. Williams ran for 26 yards on four hauls last season.
• No Notre Dame player missed Saturday’s game due to positive coronavirus control or imaginable viral symptoms. NBC reported that Irish coach Brian Kelly learned at nine a. m. saturday morning that his entire squad, with the exception of injured players in the past, was authorized to compete.
– Blink and you would have missed Notre Dame’s first offensive possessions under new coordinator and former quarterback Tommy Rees. Under Rees, 28, the Irishman played 3 games and won (-1) the first time. The Irishman finished 3 and retired at the time. with six yards won. Another 3 and out followed the third play with nine total plays for five yards. Many expected more. And better. Better behind than ever.
The Irish 13 games before getting their first try and ended up with 439 total yards.
Maybe there’s something for rookie Chris Tyree and his “electric” reputation won preseason camp. The first time Tyree touched the ball, he kicked it 38 yards back. There’s an extra explosion there. So what if you have a five-foot index nine 1/2 and 17 nine pounds?He can play. Now, three games inside, Tyree was in the backfield.
Much has been done in pre-season about how Irish defenders can fly to football and play. At first, the organization seemed slow and dubious as they rotated through the two depths in various positions. Just halfway through the first period, the Irish Blue Devils did a lot of what they were looking for with a total of 124 yards combined in the first two series. It’s hard for the Irish to face off early.
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Joe Wilkins Jr. , the first Irish catcher to catch a pass on Saturday. He had 3 for 38 yards on the final drive before halftime. These were the first 3 receptions of his career. season, Wilkins rarely, if ever, does he speak of someone to look at.
I love having the fact about this: one of the symptoms of the game call transmitted through the Irish band line is the NBA Cleveland Cavaliers.
Big fan of the look of the Kyren Williams /Daelin Hayes half t-shirt. It’s the old school of Notre Dame, like in the ’80s and early ’90s. Screams, too, arrogance. But please. Now, if Williams can keep his helmet, he escaped three times at the beginning of the quarter of a moment, adding after his touchdown.
Before Williams’ 26-yard landing in the middle of the third quarter, Ireland’s longest race was that of the Array . . . pointer Jam Bramblett, who deceived 14 yards in a fake Irish territory in the first half.
Duke’s offense was much larger, and comfortable, in the first three practices than in the four quarters last year against Notre Dame. That night in Durham, North Carolina, the Blue Devils gained only 197 yards in a 38-7 loss. by 2020, Duke was already 142 and 246 in halftime.
Classic News Dump Alert: Notre Dame announced at the end of the first quarter that Kelly had signed a contract extension until 2024, which has been going on for months. Couldn’t they throw that data bone into the media in June, July or August?
The official participation of Saturday 10,097 people. Apparently, it is the third smallest crowd in the history of Notre Dame Stadium. The current capacity of the stadium is 77,622 with a maximum expected population for the pandemic of 15,520 people.
On Saturday, one of three school football games played in the Midwest; the next closest to the one played at South Bend, 431 miles away, in Ames, Iowa, where iowa state number 25 lost to Louisiana-Lafayette. Pittsburgh (East) and Louisville (South): Closer to the Notre Dame, Pittsburgh campus is 680 km from South Bend and Louisville, where Notre Dame opened in 2019, it is 428 km away.
What is Duke’s opening of Notre Dame’s main sports?In 2014, the Notre Dame men’s basketball team opened its ACC association with a home game also opposed to Duke. Remembered as Pat Connaughton’s overturning in Jabari Parker’s game, the Irish won that one, 79-77.