Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman’s motto is, “One play. One life. Choose hard.” His players certainly chose hard on Saturday night against Ohio State as they took their team’s own life one play at a time. It was like watching a proverbial football suicide as the Irish dropped interceptions, failed to convert on fourth-and-one attempts, missed a field goal, surrendered a third-and-19 conversion, gift-wrapped a 60-yard touchdown run, and finally allowed the game-winning score with only ten defenders on the field.
There were plenty of positives to mention, but as Freeman stated at Monday’s press conference, ‘no one cares to hear about those because of the outcome.