The Big Picture
Notre Dame football closed out Week 11 of the 2026-27 season with a 41-7 win over Boston College.
The Irish shutout the Eagles 31-0 in the first half, with seven of those points coming in the first quarter and the remaining 24 being put up in the second quarter. The teams tied 7-7 in the third quarter and Notre Dame went 3-0 to close out things in the fourth quarter.
The second quarter continues to be the most prolific scoring period. Notre Dame is averaging 9.6 points scored in first quarters, 14.1
points in second quarters, 7.4 points in third quarters and 8.4 points in fourth quarters.
Notre Dame had a +34 point differential in the Boston College game and their average point differential through Week 11 sits at +25.7. The team is scoring an average of 39.5 points per game.
The Offensive Stats
The Irish offense put up 500 yards of total offense against the Eagles, their second highest production so far this season. The #1 slot is occupied by the 598-yard game against Stanford in Week 6. Notre Dame’s offense is averaging 445 yards of total offense per game.
The team recorded 224 passing yards against Boston College and are averaging 259 passing yards per game through Week 11. Irish passers completed 21 of their 32 collective pass attempts for a 65.6% completion rate.
Notre Dame tallied up 276 yards on the ground against Boston College and are averaging 185 rushing yards per game up to this point. It was their second-best rushing game, in terms of overall production. They put up 361 rushing yards against Stanford in Week 6. The Irish hit that production on 40 attempts and earned 6.9 yards per carry on average.
The Quarterbacks
CJ Carr took the bulk of Notre Dame’s quarterback stats against Boston College. He completed 20 of his 28 pass attempts for a 71.4% completion rate. He recorded 217 passing yards, threw two touchdown passes and had one interception.
Through Week 11, Carr has a 67.9% completion rate on 290 pass attempts, 2,385 passing yards, 23 touchdowns, two interceptions and three sacks.
Freshman quarterback Noah Grubbs completed one of his three pass attempts for seven yards.
The Rushers
Freshman running back Jonaz Walton had another monster rushing game in Week 11.
- Walton tallied up 141 yards on the ground, accounting for 51% of the team’s collective rushing yards. He led the group with 15 carries, averaged 9.4 yards earned per carry and claimed on the team’s two rushing touchdowns. It was Walton’s second best rushing game and third 100+ yard game this season. He put up 181 yards against Stanford in Week 6 and 120 yards against North Carolina in Week 5.
- Nolan James Jr. finished the game with 73 rushing yards on 14 carries. He averaged 5.2 yards earned per rush attempt and had one rushing touchdown.
- Junior running back Kedren Young logged 34 rushing yards on five carries.
The Receivers
Junior wide receiver Micah Gilbert led the team’s group of ball catchers in production against Boston College.
- Gilbert finished the game with 86 yards on five catches and one of the team’s two receiving touchdowns. He’s now sitting at 38 catches, 614 yards and six touchdowns on the season.
- Wide receiver Jaden Greathouse was on the lower end in terms of catches but #2 in production. The senior recorded 46 yards on two catches.
- Jordan Faison tallied up 41 yards on five receptions and also claimed a touchdown catch. The senior wide receiver has 49 catches, 615 yards and six touchdowns through Week 11.
The Defensive Stats
The Irish defense held the Eagles to the second lowest production, in terms of total offense, by opponents in 2026-27.
Boston College put up 136 yards of total offense, and opponents are earning an average of 240 yards per game. Rice has had the lowest production, 126 yards in Week 2. Boston College had one of the worst passing showings by opponents to this point in the season. They put up 51 yards through the air, compared with Rice’s 64 passing yards and Navy’s 33 passing yards. Excluding Navy and BYU, teams are averaging 198 passing yards per game against the Irish.
The Notre Dame offense held Boston College’s offense to 85 rushing yards in Week 11. Prior to Week 7, no team had earned more than 67 yards on the ground against the Irish. BYU. Put up 121 rushing yards, Navy had 212 rushing yards, and Miami (FL) logged 101 yards on the ground. The Eagle’s production sits right at the season average mark, 86 rushing yards allowed per game.
Notre Dame defensive players walked away from Week 11 with four sacks, five tackles for loss and four pass deflections. The defense also had one interception and one recovered fumble that also got converted into a touchdown.
- Senior linebacker Jaylen Sneed closed out things with one tackle for loss. Sneed also knabbed a touchdown on a fumble recovery late in the second quarter.
- Sophomore safety Ethan Long pulled down an interception early in the third quarter.
- Senior safety Luke Talich had one sack and one tackle for loss.
- Freshman defensive lineman Rodney Dunham recorded one sack and one tackle for loss.
- Senior defensive lineman Boubacar Traore tallied up one sack and one tackle for loss.
- Senior defensive lineman Elijah Hughes walked away from the game with 0.5 sacks and 0.5 tackles for loss.
- Junior defensive lineman Byrce Young recorded 0.5 sacks and 0.5 tackles for loss.
- Senior cornerback Christian Gray had two pass deflections.
- Sophomore cornerback Dallas Golden finished the game with two pass deflections.
The Flow Stats
Notre Dame’s offense had eleven full drives and turned six of them into points.
Closing Thoughts
The Irish put on another dominating performance and are 9-1 heading into their last two regular season matchups. I don’t think anyone had major questions about this week’s final outcome. It’s reassuring to see this level of stat consistency across the offense, defense and special teams this late into the season and coming directly off a marquee win.
On to SMU next weekend
