Really worried about this game all season. Had misgivings about what ND team would show up at Pitt – they were on the field and that’s about it. Coaches also took the night off.

So here comes a good BYU team that just hung 59 points on Idaho State as a tuneup to this game. So what you say “it’s Idaho State”, well guess what they hung 40 on Texas, 38 on Georgia State and 47 on Houston. If Diaco sits back in his bend/break defense and only rushes 3-4 we cannot win. If the db’s play 8 yards off the ball we will get eaten alive.

For Notre Dame to win this game they simply must run the ball and not put the whole game on Rees. It’s going to be cold and rain – not conducive to throwing the ball 30 times. So far ND has not been able to run – even against a weak Pitt team – I don’t see it happening here either. Wisconsin pounded the ball against BYU and they didn’t care if the box was loaded. Empty back set is a perfect set up to get Rees hammered, and continually running east/west won’t help things.

Senior day hasn’t meant much past years and I expect the same ho-hum this Saturday. We only beat them by 3 points last year with a far better team and BYU is better this year.

My only hope is that Tommy goes out in a blaze of glory.

BYU dual threat QB runs all over this depleted defense especially with Nix done for the year having had surgery. All year we have let QB’s look like Heisman candidates and in this game Taysom Hill shines.

BYU 30 Notre Dame 21