Turnovers Key to Irish Success in 2025

Notre Dame has been a pretty consistently very good to great defense for quite some time.  The facts will show that.  

Notre Dame finished 4th last season in scoring defense, allowing 15.5 yards per game.  

In 2023, they finished ranked No. 7 with 15.9 points per game.  

In 2022, Marcus Freeman’s first year as head coach, they weren’t quite a good, finishing ranked No. 38 and allowed 23 points per game in a 9-4 season.  

In 2021, they finished ranked No.