The Notre Dame Fighting Irish have had their fair share of issues coming off of a big game during the Marcus Freeman era, but Saturday against the Boston College Eagles — it wasn’t one of those games. The Irish offense rolled to 500 yards and the Irish defense was suffocating all day long and allowed less than 150 yards to the Eagles for a 41-7 win over Boston College.
Notre Dame started the game by scoring touchdowns on three of its first four drives. The first was a 26 yard strike from CJ Carr to Micah
Gilbert on the first drive. Then, the Irish running game took over and Notre Dame scored rushing touchdowns with bulldozing run from 10 yards out by Nolan James, and then a 1 yard pounding by Jonaz Walton to put Notre Dame up 21-0.
Following the Walton Touchdown, the Notre Dame defense took over quickly as Boubacar Traore got the strip sack on Mason McKenzie, and Jaylen Sneed finally fell on the ball in the end zone for an Irish touchdown to make it 28-0 late in the 1st half.
The Irish tacked on another 3 points right before halftime thanks to a Spencer Porath field goal. The drive was due to the Notre Dame’s stop on 4th down to get the ball back. Notre Dame went into halftime up 31-0 and in control of everything.
Notre Dame’s second half was a mixture of mistakes and trying too hard. CJ Carr threw his first interception in 191 attempts on the first drive of the third quarter thanks to a tip on the line, and BC turned that mistake into a touchdown drive.
The Irish quickly answered on the next drive, and Jordan Faison came down with a one foot down catch in the end zone that would make the Miami Hurricanes weep.
Notre Dame kept CJ Carr in the game well into the 4th quarter, but they were either trying too hard and were only able to tack on another field goal after the Faison touchdown.
More to come on OFD.
