I believe its safe to state that South Florida will go home to Tampa and burn the tape. Nevertheless, if theres a silver lining anywhere to be found, it would be running back Johnny Ford. He rattled a couple of great runs and looked like the sort of playmaker this group will require when it enters conference play.
No. 7 Notre Dame did not have almost as much trouble in its second video game of the season as it did its first, crushing South Florida 52-0. This video game was over rapidly. The Irish begun with the ball and marched down the field for the first of lots of touchdowns.
The Irish controlled the Bulls in all phases of the game and also took benefit of lots of mistakes. Lets take an appearance at the 3 biggest takeaways from an afternoon snoozer in South Bend.
1. The Irish offense looked a lot much better.
It wasnt that things were awful last week during the 27-13 win over Duke, but they werent crisp. Outside of Kyren Williams, the offense appeared like a system playing its very first game of the season after the strangest offseason of all time. That wasnt the case on Saturday.
After starting last weeks game with 3 consecutive three-and-outs, the Irish opened things up with a 25-yard gain on the first play from scrimmage and never ever recalled. Notre Dame began the day with four straight goal drives. The Irish didnt punt for the first time until late in the third quarter, which sought Ian Book had been pulled for third-string QB Drew Pyne.
Speaking of Book, his final passing line isnt going to gather much attention. He completed 12-of-19 passes for 143 lawns. While he didnt make any mistakes and there wasnt much of a need for him to toss typically, he did miss some tosses. And while he scored three touchdowns with his legs, odds are Brian Kelly and Tommy Rees will continue harping on the little things with him.
The Irish offense completed with 429 overall backyards, balancing 6.5 per play. The majority of the damage was done on the ground, where the team rushed for 281 yards and averaged 6.2 backyards per carry.
And, speaking of the Irish run game …
2. Theres a lot of depth at RB.
Recently Kyren Williams was the lead horse in the Irish hurrying attack, and it looked like Chris Tyree was going to be an outstanding complement to him in the run video game. This week, the Irish showed that they have a lot of choices to turn to.
While Williams hurried for 62 backyards on 10 brings, CBo Flemister led the group in hurrying. He completed with 127 lawns on 13 carries with a touchdown. Tyree had 65 hurrying backyards of his own on eight brings, and while he wasnt nearly as reliable, Jafar Armstrong got seven brings and a touchdown also.
And, as discussed previously, Book scored 3 rushing touchdowns although he hurried for just nine backyards, indicating the Irish had four various players score hurrying touchdowns on the day.
3. A lot went wrong for the Bulls.
As you d anticipate, when a group loses a game 52-0, it wasnt simply one thing that went wrong for the Bulls. Notre Dame only punted once in the video game, and that was with its third-string QB in the game.
And after that there were special groups, which was an absolute problem for the Bulls. USF punter Trent Schneider began his day with a 20-yard shank, and things only became worse from there. Later in the video game, a snap discussed his head, and while Schneider was able to get the start, it didnt go anywhere. Later on, another snap reviewed Schneiders head, and he as soon as again got to the ball and got a kick off. Sadly, this time he wasnt lucky sufficient to get more than a foot to the ball as the punt was blocked and recuperated in the end zone for a Notre Dame touchdown.
No. 7 Notre Dame did not have nearly as much trouble in its second video game of the season as it did its very first, squashing South Florida 52-0. Outside of Kyren Williams, the offense looked like an unit playing its very first video game of the season after the strangest offseason of all time. After beginning last weeks video game with 3 consecutive three-and-outs, the Irish opened things up with a 25-yard gain on the very first play from scrimmage and never looked back. Notre Dame just punted when in the video game, and that was with its third-string QB in the video game.
Later on in the game, a snap went over his head, and while Schneider was able to get the kick off, it didnt go anywhere.
