Notre Dame responded to their last-minute victory over Virginia Tech with their more complete performances of the year. They weren’t perfect, but they were better than we’ve seen them for much of the year last night on the road in Durham while posting a 38-7 win over Duke to improve to 7–2 on the season. We’ve seen the Irish score more points and have better individual defensive performances, but last night was the first time we’ve seen all three phases of the game play well against a Power 5 opponent.
Here are this week’s overreactions.
We are almost back to 2018 Ian Book, and that’s a very good thing
Ian Book is starting to look more like the quarterback we saw in 2018, who forced his way into the starting lineup and set a Notre Dame record for completion percentage in a single season.