Indiana vs. Notre Dame: Key Strategies for Playoff Success

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00:00So, how do you think Indiana will do against Notre Dame on a Friday night at Notre Dame

00:08Stadium in cold South Bend, Indiana, in the first round of the college football playoff?

00:14Well, one thing that has to happen, Scott, is they have to be more closer to, I shouldn't

00:20say, they should be closer to perfect.

00:23No one's perfect, right?

00:25People are going to make mistakes, but you can't make massive mistakes like they made

00:29against Ohio State.

00:30They did not get their butt kicked from scrimmage.

00:33They made two massive mistakes, a blocked punt and a punt return for touchdown that

00:38made it a one-sided Ohio State victory at the horseshoe.

00:42I think Ohio State would have won without those, but it wouldn't have been the lopsided

00:46game that it was.

00:48So they have to be closer to perfect, and they'll have to have better pass protection

00:52as well.

00:53That was a serious problem in that Ohio State game, their first big-time game.

00:59They really did not protect the quarterback well enough, and they weren't able to get

01:03any offense going as a result.

01:06They'll have to defend the run.

01:07Notre Dame is phenomenal in the run game.

01:10At least they were against the schedule they played.

01:14Indiana's going to have to prove they can stop the run.

01:17I think they can at least hang in there.

01:19The fact it's a road game is going to make it really difficult for them, but I think

01:23they can hang in there and make it a contest.

01:26Do you think the winner of that game can beat Georgia because they don't have a quarterback

01:31now?

01:32I am not sold at all on the kid, Stockton, that played, the Gunner kid.

01:39Everyone thought he did a good job.

01:42That pick late in the game, he should have lost the game.

01:44I don't think, Georgia has a quarterback.

01:46Well, I'll be honest with you, I wasn't sold on Carson Beck's 2024 season either.

01:52I thought that he was an issue for them all the way through the year.

01:55Now, he was, by that point in the season, you know what you got from him on most occasions,

02:00which frankly wasn't championship level.

02:03It may have been SEC championship level, it wasn't national championship level.

02:08So I don't think that his absence is the decisive factor for Georgia.

02:13They have to be better all the way around.

02:15I think both teams can beat Georgia, either Indiana or Notre Dame.

02:22Georgia's a fine football team, but they're not the powerhouse that they were the last

02:25couple of years.

02:26Who do you think, just off the top of your head, is going to win it all?

02:31I think if Ohio State can get its head in the game after the loss to Michigan, I always

02:37thought they were the best team.

02:38We'll see.

02:39Oh, God.

02:40Oh.

02:41Oh, they just ruined my day, this guy, DeCourcy.

02:45Everything was going great, I woke up in a good mood.

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