r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Sep 14 '25

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Texas A&M Defeats Notre Dame 41-40

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Texas A&M 7 21 3 10 41
Notre Dame 14 10 7 9 40
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u/retropunk2 Ohio State Buckeyes • College Football Playoff Sep 14 '25

What a wild game to watch.

Texas A&M kept shooting themselves in the dick but Notre Dame would be like "Wait, give us the gun first."

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u/Kuntheman Paper Bag Sep 14 '25

Chris Ash and Mike Denbrock need to start wearing bags over their heads too. It could possibly help their playcalling

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

Fuck Chris Ash all my homies hate Chris Ash

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u/Perry_cox29 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Sep 14 '25

I’m just here to say fuck Chris Ash

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u/Ok-Cauliflower-1258 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 14 '25

He’s completely sabotaged that defense

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u/Bloody_Hangnail Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 14 '25

Coming into this season I believed wholeheartedly:

  1. We had one of the best defenses in the nation.

  2. We had an underrated defensive line (probably top 20 caliber).

  3. We had without a doubt the best secondary in the nation.

FUCK!!!!!

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u/CheckItWhileIWreckIt Michigan • Rutgers Sep 14 '25

Watching this man be ass at ND is supremely vindicating. Sorry guys, we tried to warn you the man is a football terrorist.

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u/snapetom Rutgers Scarlet Knights • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

All the people at my A&M watch party were sick and tired of me saying, "Relax. It's Chris Ash."

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

There's no such thing as a relaxed Texas A&M fan

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u/snail-the-sage Indiana • Oklahoma State Sep 14 '25

More like Chris Ass

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u/mr_0las Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Big East Sep 14 '25

I'm starting to hate Chris Ash

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

For real, he's on a warm seat right now.

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u/saltytradewinds Notre Dame • Oregon State Sep 14 '25

We're starting to hate him too.

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u/Frosty_McRib Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 14 '25

It reminds me of the BVG days with how continuously we looked confused and late getting set. The secondary is floating by on athleticism alone, they're lost out there.

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u/Bloody_Hangnail Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 14 '25

I gave him a mulligan last game. This was an embarrassment. The next four games had better be complete dominance or I want him gone.

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u/The_WanderingAggie Texas A&M Aggies • Texas Longhorns Sep 14 '25

The use of the Wildcat was.... interesting, but I really don't think you can blame the offense too much

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u/OnionFutureWolfGang Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 14 '25

Denbrock really liked the Riley Leonard QB power and is determined to find a way to keep it in the playbook without him. Tried it with Carr at Miami and then Love and Price this week.

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u/discipleofbill Notre Dame • Laurier Sep 14 '25

It would work if they took out Carr and put in someone who could block instead of playing what is essentially 10 vs 11.

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u/Actual-Bandicoot6531 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 20 '25

If he feels compelled to do that, why not use Minchey instead of Love at the wildcat?

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u/ozymandais13 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 14 '25

Workd like 2 of 11 times

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u/OnionFutureWolfGang Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 14 '25

If your offense scores 33 points you escape blame for any weird playcalling no matter how many times you tried to randomly run the wildcat.

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u/Makaroo Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

Is this revisionist?? The wildcat at least got yall one if not two critical first downs. We could not defend it

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u/discipleofbill Notre Dame • Laurier Sep 14 '25

We also got stuffed on 4th and 1 trying before it ever had any semblance of success. Probably 2 or 3 TFLs out of that look. You could hear the crowd audibly groan when we shifted to the formation. It really only worked on the last drive.

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u/Jkane007 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 14 '25

Ash should be shown the door immediately. Promote mickens.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

Why did freeman call at timeout??? He should have let the Aggies run the play.

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u/Frosty_McRib Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 14 '25

Honestly I thought that too. We had the momentum.

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u/stoic_amoeba Notre Dame • Tennessee Tech Sep 14 '25

Denbrock wasn't perfect. Not sure why he falls in love with a particular play week-to-week (bubble screen game 1, wildcat/direct RB snap game 2).

But Chris Ash was just...yikes...shades of BvG 2016. First time ND gave up 40+ in regulation since 2017!!! Inexcusable.

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u/Bloody_Hangnail Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 14 '25

The first few passes Reed threw, I honestly felt sorry for him. It looked like ND was going to dominate. Then we made him look like Patrick Mahomes.

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u/aurrutia214 Nebraska Cornhuskers Sep 14 '25

When I heard his name on the broadcast I thought “wait, THE Chris Ash? He’s employeed still? Must be a different one…”

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u/the_reddit_intern Illinois • Washington Sep 14 '25

HOLY FUCK. CHRIS ASH IS NOTRE DAMES DC.

AS AN ILLINUTGERS FAN THIS IS ABSOLUTE BLASPHEMY.

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u/DanFlashesCoupon Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

I know they came up clutch with it on their last drive but the amount of wasted wild cat plays would have killed me if I was an Irish fan

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u/thunderg0at7 Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

This is what got me. Like, every 3rd or 4th and short, just play down a blocker?

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u/gonk_gonk Alabama • Georgia Tech Sep 14 '25

A QB handing the ball off blocks the same number of people as a QB flanked out to the side. It does let them know the play call, though. Which ain't nothing.

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u/thunderg0at7 Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

If everyone knows what you're going to do, why not put a fullback or DT in as a hole blocker? You are running a power play, with none of the benefits.

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u/PenguinReaper Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

It was close. We almost Aggied all over the end of that drive.

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u/urban_meyers_cyst Ohio State Buckeyes • The Game Sep 14 '25

I'm only used to seeing so many penalties when watching the Texans.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

Wow fantastic take! lol

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u/Gone213 Michigan • North Dakota Sep 14 '25

Wow, the same strategy as the championship game, its paying off dividends.

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u/FourteenBuckets Oklahoma Sooners • Big 8 Sep 20 '25

College sports are like that sometimes, whoever loses the least gets the W