Notre Dame’s Close Match With Penn State: Game Review

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00:00But now let's move on to the Notre Dame fighting Irish, a team that I finally got behind

00:05first time all season

00:07In that game against Penn State and my gosh, this was an exciting game very dull in the first half

00:12But the second half things came alive

00:15so to speak

00:16A really hard fought game. I thought some really big plays by Riley Leonard down the stretch as well

00:23So, you know my takeaway from this is that if Penn State played Notre Dame 10 times

00:28We may see this thing go five and five or six and four

00:31It seemed like they were really evenly matched and we'll get to the odds makers moving forward

00:36But I feel like Notre Dame is going to have to bring a little bit more

00:39Against Ohio State if they want to beat them

00:42They can't have a first half like they did against Penn State where the Nittany Lions controlled the game on the ground

00:48with Nick Singleton and Katron Allen

00:50Got away from it a little bit to start the second half and that ended up costing them

00:53But I really thought this game turned when Notre Dame came out of the second half had a seven play 75 yard drive

01:00That was a statement tie game

01:02And I wasn't even sure if Riley Leonard was going to come out of the tunnel after the hit he took

01:06Steve Angeli had a big possession for them

01:09They've got that charmed feel to them where their defense special teams have showed up for every game

01:15And the offense is just grinding out the victories

01:18They did throw the ball down the field better than I thought they would against Penn State even with Abdul Carter doing what he did

01:23so

01:24I think the Irish are going to compete in this game against Ohio State. They've seen it the last two years

01:29They're not going to be overwhelmed by the talent. I don't think they can win

01:34But I do think they're going to show up and compete. I mean, it was a 17-14 game last year