Notre Dame Overcomes Texas A&M in Key Matchup, 23-13

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00:00Let's go to the marquee matchup in primetime. The top 20 tilt

00:06in College Station between Texas A&M and Notre Dame. The

00:11fighting Irish win by double digits on the road in a low

00:15scoring affair. 23 to 13 over the Aggies winning outright as

00:21a two and a half point underdog. Coach Bowden, what

00:23did Marcus Freeman entering year number three show you last

00:27night with his Notre Dame school? Oh, a big hurdle. He

00:30he he overcame a big hurdle beating Texas A&M in College

00:34Station. That is a tough place to play. Uh Jimbo left their

00:38coach Elko a lot of good football players and he they

00:41were even favored uh against the top team Notre Dame but

00:43Notre Dame showed their stuff. Great defense. Almost put me to

00:47sleep after watching Miami, Florida because of the way the

00:49game was played but it was a great defensive game. Notre

00:53Dame showed their stuff by hanging there making the big

00:55plays at the end and the difference was the quarterbacks.

00:58It really was. Defenses were both very good but the

01:00differences were the quarterbacks. Wigman threw two

01:03interceptions in the fourth quarter had three. I think

01:05three incompletes in a row when they had a chance to get ahead

01:07or tied up and did not do what he could do. I think Notre Dame

01:11has proved they can play against anybody anywhere this

01:13year. It's gonna be exciting for them. I think Texas A&M has

01:16gotta answer that quarterback situation uh cuz you can't just

01:19win with defense in the SEC. You have to have a defense but

01:22you gotta be able to put points on the board. And that's where

01:24I wanna go to coach. Perception, right? The

01:27perception was that Texas A&M was the better team, right?

01:30Eight and a half win total potentially and being a dark

01:33horse contender in the SEC. Notre Dame was looked at as

01:36maybe a middle of the road team. Still not maybe with the

01:40elite teams like Georgia and Ohio State respectively. So, I

01:44I agree with that but from Texas A&M, do you feel this is a

01:48top twenty-five caliber team especially from an offensive

01:51perspective and watching Conor Wegman last night because I

01:54a lot of scouts think he's actually a first round

01:57selection in the NFL draft. Well, you know, I'm not sure

02:01yet. I haven't watched him a lot last year. I watched him

02:04last night and um and I'm not sure why. They have to be able

02:07to utilize him, throw the ball downfield. If you're gonna have

02:10a quarterback that's that talented, you gotta out, throw

02:12the ball downfield, give him chance to make big plays. So

02:15many times that a quarterback just dumps it off and throw

02:18short passes. It's not the quarterback. It's the play

02:20calling. They wanna keep it, keep it close, keep it close,

02:23win with defense. They've gotta open it up and if they're

02:25gonna win in the SEC, they gotta score points cuz I don't

02:28care how good your defense is. There's gonna be outstanding

02:31teams in the conference that are gonna score points. A

02:33really good front seven for Mike Elko who handles a lot of

02:37the defensive responsibilities. Colin Klein, former K State

02:41great at the quarterback spot, worked in the Little Apple in

02:44Manhattan under Chris Climb in the last few years as the

02:47offensive coordinator. His first game as the OC for A&M

02:50last night, a mixed bag to say the least.

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