Texas-Notre Dame Football: Defensive Postmortem

Matt Cashore-USA TODAY SportsIn the preseason TTF preview, we cautioned that the Longhorn fanbase trusting blindly that this staff would just sort out the defense despite significant attrition to the NFL, a horrific LB depth chart and a lack of speed over the top might be shocked at the results after the first half of the season. Despite our warning, even I was shocked at how poorly we played.

I know we're all caught up in speculation about the direction of the new offense, but we also have a defense. And that defense had its ass thoroughly kicked on Saturday. Credit a very good Notre Dame offense with more team speed than I've seen from the Irish in two decades, a senior laden OL and a…