How would that match up with NDs schedule?

by Mark, Friday, July 24, 2026, 13:50 (20 hours, 20 minutes ago) @ Jay
edited by Mark, Friday, July 24, 2026, 14:09

In other words, is that something you do at the start of the season to ensure success until the wide receiver room gets more established? Then versus lesser teams or teams ND is blowing out … you have a chance to work on developing other personnel groupings.

The goal would obviously be that Carr is able to run a wide variety of personnel packages successfully by the tournament/ later half of the season.

I just dont see a defense that obviously can bottle ND’s offense up until maybe Miami … and that’s 8 weeks in to the season. That’s a lot of time to validate what works vs weaker programs. For example, right now the prediction markets have ND as a -20 point favorite over Wisconsin predicting something like 42-21 outcome. The only close game before Miami is BYU, which sets up as a potential trap game being that its a road game. However, even then ND is expected to win something like 31-20. And that’s ND’s lowest scoring game before Miami.

That’s plenty of time for ND & Denbrock to develop ND’s WR group.