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5 Things I Didn’t Like: Familiar Concerns on Defense Rear Heads for Notre Dame

While there was a lot of good to come out of Notre Dame’s 32-29 victory over Virginia Tech over the weekend, there was also a lot left for the Irish coaching staff to clean up over the bye week. Notre Dame faced an offense that had not had a whole lot of success for most of the year and allowed them to score 29 points and make critical conversions that nearly cost them the game. Luckily it didn’t and most of what we saw that was concerning are areas we’ve seen the Irish perform better recently.

Too many killer third downs allowed because of lack of contain

Earlier this season, Notre Dame was giving up third downs at an alarming rate.