Virginia quarterback Brennan Armstrong’s 3,557 passing yards this season rank him second in all of FBS college football. He has also helped lead Virginia to average 545.2 yards of offense per game this season, the most of any FBS program.
Notre Dame travels to Virginia on Saturday night as defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman and the Irish will be tasked with trying to contain one of the best offenses college football has to offer. What makes that perhaps even a bit more difficult to game plan for is the fact Notre Dame doesn’t know if it’ll be Armstrong who starts for Virginia.
Nor does anyone on Virginia, at least according to Cavaliers head coach Bronco Mendenhall who was asked this week about the status of starting quarterback Brennan Armstrong.
“No, I don’t have an update on Brennan. Man, I’m planning on him being our quarterback. Yeah, I probably won’t have an update until the ball is kicked off and we all look out there and see who our quarterback is.” – Bronco Mendenhall
Mendenhall was then asked if it was by choice that he hasn’t revealed any information or if he actually doesn’t know if Armstrong will be able to give it a go.
“It means just collectively where I don’t really plan to address it because I don’t think it’ll help you, me, or anyone else in terms of preparation. It helps our football team best to let Brennan heal, recover, and our team get ready to play.” – Bronco Mendenhall
By the sounds of it I would think Armstrong, who suffered a rib injury two weeks ago in a loss at BYU, at least tries to give it a go.
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