CFP Showdown: Will Notre Dame’s Underdog Spirit Topple Ohio State’s Empire?
Ohio State won’t be an easy matchup for a Notre Dame offensive line that has a pressure-allowed rate of 36.3% – worse than the national average of 32.6%.
Question No. 2: Will the Irish’s one clear advantage still be one?
If there’s one area where the Fighting Irish have an on-paper advantage, it’s in the defensive interior.
Freeman’s team has had one of the best defensive tackle tandems in the country, with sixth-year senior Howard Cross and fifth-year senior Rylie Mills anchoring the line. Meanwhile, Ohio State is missing its starting center, Seth McLaughlin, and has shuffled around its lineup with him out.


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