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Notre Dame needs to ‘respect’ Vanderbilt, its Stanford-inspired defense

More and more, the greatest mistake Irish head coach Brian Kelly identified in Notre Dame’s 24-16 win against Ball State on Saturday seems to have been made in the week before the kickoff against a mid-level opponent.

“We didn’t play our best, but what we did well in that game is that we won the game,” Kelly said Tuesday. “What we need to do better is certainly I’ve got to prepare our football team better. What we learned is that we have to be so much more intentional in our process during the week.”.

“Our guys know that what we’ve learned from last week is that we got to be locked in on our process.