It wasn’t always pretty or easy, but Notre Dame heads into their bye week at 5-1 having gone a respectable 2-1 through the hardest three game stretch of the schedule. The Irish certainly have a fair number of questions to answer before they play USC on October 23rd, and we’ll try to answer as many of those here as we can. For more information on the statistics we use, please follow this link to our analytics primer.
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Brian Kelly and Tommy Rees chose to go with Jack Coan under center to begin the game, and early in the game he showed all the potential downsides of his play.