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Notre Dame Fighting Irish News: One change, one chase, one shot at the CFP

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Notre Dame makes a key defensive adjustment, eyes the playoff despite an early loss, and targets a Miami commit.

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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team has a new defensive coordinator leading its defense onto the field in 2025 and while Chris Ash has said he's not going to make drastic changes to the defense the players know, he is making tweaks here and there, especially on the defensive line.

Ash has said that he's going to tweak the defensive line so that there are no strong-side and no weak-side defensive ends.