Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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BLUEGOLDONLINE.COM OCT. 11, 2025 13 UNDER THE DOME "First off, [Notre Dame quarterback CJ Carr] can make every throw. He's extremely athletic, can run, can make every throw, but for a freshman, I'm ex- tremely impressed with his decision-making. I mean, he gives the ball exactly where it should be, on time, where it should go. He runs a pro-style offense that has a lot of shifts and motions and complications to it, and he operates it at a very, very high level. "He's obviously played in big-time games and played really, really well, so I'm very, very im- pressed with CJ. Like I said, he's going to be a first-round draft pick when he leaves college. I mean, that's not just my opinion, and he deserves that."— Boise State head coach Spencer Danielson "He would tell me, 'Ma, I don't feel emotion.' It was like he didn't feel happiness. He didn't feel grief. He didn't feel none of it. And I was like, 'Yeah, you do.' He was like, 'No, I don't.' Jeremiyah was perceived to be, at times, standoffish, a loner, not a team player. … We spoke with a pediatrician who had been seeing Jeremiyah since he was a baby. And he kind of leaned into that Jeremiyah could be on the [autism] spectrum, that he could be higher-functioning," — L'Tyona Love said of her son, Jeremiyah Love, on ESPN's College GameDay "There's a chance that, without getting even into one specific thing, that Notre Dame's offense is just an absolute wagon, because outside of the first half of the Miami game, that's what they've looked like. The last two weeks, 56 [points] two weeks in a row. "I don't think there's one specific challenge right now that you're dealing with when you play against Notre Dame. CJ Carr has been great, accu- rate, finding open guys. Jeremiyah Love sure looks like Jeremiyah Love again. Jadarian Price, one of the best No. 2 backs in the country. The receivers. The tight ends. If you're going to beat Notre Dame at this point, you have to beat them up front with the offensive line, because it's still not a very highly graded unit. They're working around it a little bit. "But how many teams in the country can do that at that level? At the level Miami did and still had to win on a buzzer beater. And Marcel Reed and A&M had to score 41 and the botched extra point and all of that. Who knows how high scoring that game could have been if it had gone to overtime instead?" — Pro Football Focus analyst Dalton Wasserman on Notre Dame's offense "They are left for dead right now, but Notre Dame is going to come all the way back and be 10-2. If they run the table, they would get in. The losses would be, remember, at Miami, which was a tie game in the final two minutes, and A&M — one play away from winning that game. … The committee is going to have more metrics, and in particular, not penalize teams for losses to really good opponents. "In this scenario that I'm painting, Notre Dame's losses would be to No. 2 Miami and No. 7 Texas A&M. So, their losses are not going to be held against them as much. Do they have great wins? No, they're not go- ing to have great wins, but they're going to be domi- nant, which they have in the last couple of weeks to get back to .500 at 2-2." — FOX Sports college football analyst Joel Klatt on Notre Dame's playoff chances "If they go 10-2 and continue to obliterate oppo- nents that aren't very good, will it sway the selec- tion committee? That's iffy. Strength of schedule is expected to be more heavily weighed than ever, and while Notre Dame has two very good losses so far (by a total of four points to undefeated Miami and Texas A&M), quality wins matter more. And oppor- tunities for those could be disappearing quickly. … "It would benefit Notre Dame's cause if undefeated Navy continues to excel in the American and Boise State wins the Mountain West — but having some valuable power-conference accolades would help more. The path to the playoff is likely as follows: fin- ish 10-2 and pummel everyone on the way; root for Miami and Texas A&M to remain strong; root for USC to rebound; root for losses to pile up in the Big Ten and SEC for potential contenders. Chaos and parity would be two-loss Notre Dame's best friends in any playoff scenario." — Sports Illustrated senior writer Pat Forde on Notre Dame's playoff chances PHOTO BY CHAD WEAVER Irish On Social Media THEY SAID IT THEY SAID IT "I am not a NFL Draft expert, and this is just his fourth game, but based on his accuracy, touch, athleticism and reading of defenses, it would not surprise me if Notre Dame's CJ CARR was the first overall pick in 2027." — Dan Wetzel of ESPN on X during Notre Dame's 56-13 win at Arkansas