Opening Possession Successful Again
15 plays, 81 yards, 8:44 off the clock and seven points.
11 plays, 75 yards, 4:52 off the clock and seven points.
12 plays, 61 yards, 5:34 off the clock and three points.
These are Notre Dame’s opening drives the last three games against Georgia Tech, Pitt and Florida State. Now the drive Saturday is a bit of an extreme but if this doesn’t speak to an offense doing the proverbial “take what’s there” then I don’t know what does.
Obviously points on the opening possession are the most important takeaway and that’s now three straight games the Irish have accomplished that but Saturday was another level of setting the tone early by dinking and dunking their way down field.
It speaks to having a game plan executing it against inferior opponents, now will the same be said against the nation’s number one team?
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