00:00Notre Dame, how good are they, Chris, in your eyes?
00:02I mean, look, Miami is a really good football team,
00:05but C.J. Carr, I thought, played pretty well,
00:08especially in the second half on being able to really kind of make those
00:12chains move for them, maybe more so much better in the first half,
00:15but how good is Notre Dame in your opinion?
00:17They're really, I mean, their defensive line absolutely whipped Miami's
00:21offensive line up front, and that was what surprised me the most in that game.
00:25I did not expect Miami's offensive line to be as good, obviously,
00:30as it was last year when you got CeCe and Markel Ball and other guys starting
00:33in the NFL right now, but I think a lot of people kind of got thrown off the scent
00:39because Notre Dame had a weird game at BYU and lost,
00:44and maybe the strength of schedule wasn't that great,
00:46but Carr is a top five, top ten quarterback type of guy.
00:51Maybe their weapons and running backs haven't been as great,
00:54but defensively they played really good.
00:56If you looked at all of the efficiency metrics and power ratings going into that game,
01:01they all had the Irish as a top three, top five type of team,
01:04and I think the fact that the committee came out and ranked Notre Dame 11th
01:09based on their season so far, that kind of had people curious as,
01:13oh my God, Notre Dame has to win this game to get in,
01:15but they are clearly one of the best teams in the country.
01:19They'll probably be ranked, I would think, in the top five come top four
01:23come college football playoff ranking time tonight when this comes out,
01:27but it's so weird.
01:30You mentioned C.J. Carr, and he's great.
01:32Just how kind of now he's kind of fallen into Heisman favoritism
01:36or a co-choice with Darian Mensah just because you see Jeremiah Smith,
01:41this quarterback, gets hurt.
01:42Now he's out for the year, and Malachi Tony gets hurt.
01:45So kind of by default now you've got C.J. Carr there leading the Heisman race.
