Gordon Monson: 'This much became clear in this game: Notre Dame really is a better, faster, more physical football team than BYU.'
BYU quarterback Jaren Hall , celebrates after wide receiver Kody Epps scored a touchdown against Notre Dame during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022, in Las Vegas. In the steel-cable-and-plastic shade of Saturday’s BYU-Notre Dame game, where the Cougars were disrespected as inferior and accused of being age-advantaged by a couple of Irish players in the run-up, the mission — see what we did there — to be achieved remained the same for BYU.
This much became clear in this game: Notre Dame really is a better, faster, more physical football team than BYU. Not that the Cougars are lousy, they fought back in this game honorably after falling substantially behind through a couple of quarters. But the Irish possessed the ball for more than 40 minutes, BYU for less than 20.
The first came with the Cougars down by five, moving the ball across the field, facing a critical third-and-7. Hall flipped a pass that would have kept the drive alive to an open Puka Nacua, supposedly the Cougars best receiver. It was a throw maybe your grandmother could have caught, but, instead, Nacua allowed the ball to fall to the turf.
Even though the Cougars narrowed the margin in the fourth quarter, by then the aforementioned statement made by one Notre Dame player beforehand — that the Irish had superior athletes in their program — had been confirmed.
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