Quick Hits: Brian Kelly’s Navy Week press conference

“We’ve got a few ideas on what to do, but he’s going to adjust really quickly to us”. It also kept Clemson in the mix for the four-team playoff. The analyst trio of Barrett Sallee, Adam Kramer and Michael Felder did as well.

Watson and the offense weren’t the stars of that victory by any stretch. Notre Dame’s blocking was poor and the Clemson defense double-teamed the three wide receivers resulting in a failed conversion.

On Friday, the day before Clemson beat Notre Dame, College GameDay host Rece Davis was asked about the Tigers’ chips on their shoulders that week. The Irish, though, possess too much talent-and too much barking from Brian Kelly-to sleepwalk through a Navy game.

Mids have turned teams over this year and that’s a huge key for any defense.

“I felt like my D-coordinator was going to sleep at night anxious about [Fuller’s] speed”, Alexander said, per David M. Hale of ESPN.com. “I don’t know“, he replied honestly.

The Tigers were favored by three points in the final point spread, per Vegas Insider, but ESPN’s College GameDay analysts Lee Corso, Desmond Howard and David Pollack picked Notre Dame to win.

“Oh yeah”, Lawson said, per Hale.

“I think it helps both of us”, he said. Going into the game the other night, Notre Dame has “the greatest offensive line in America, ‘ and we’re going to have a hard time getting a first down with our offensive line”.

Keeping playoff possibilities alive isn’t the only concern.

He is sixth in the conference in receptions per game at 5.2, and is now tied for eighth in the ACC in total receiving yards, as he sits with 300 yards through the first five games of the season.

So just because Notre Dame stifled Georgia Tech’s triple option scheme on September 19, don’t expect that it will be just as simple versus the 4-0 Midshipmen, annually among the top 3 nationally in rushing output.

The Tigers stayed ideal and moved into the top 10 by holding off No. 15 Notre Dame’s late rally in the instant classic played in a soaking rainstorm. “We’ll flex those muscles”.

Georgia Tech tried to get it out on the edge a little more. The week after that, Clemson travels to a Miami team that has one of the nation’s best big-play backs in Joseph Yearby. He holds the single-season (31) and career (73) rushing touchdown marks for a quarterback.

“We hit the ground running [on Monday]”.

One of the biggest mysteries of the 2015 Clemson football season thus far has been the status of senior defensive tackle D.J. Reader, who “decided to step away from football for a while” in August but has yet to return to the team.

Notre Dame already faced, and succeeded against, a triple option offense this year. If it hadn’t been for the stop on the two-point conversion, the matchup was destined for overtime. “Two times at Notre Dame Stadium, there’s a lot of people in this world that can’t say they’ve been able to do that”. There’s plenty to correct in the first three quarters as well. Kelly cited previous strong performances against the Midshipman, coupled with a good evening against Clemson as the reasons for that decision. Kelly summed up the team captains role which is “have to continue to work towards their goals and what their mission is for this football team”.

Nevertheless, just because it looked easy against Georgia Tech doesn’t mean it will automatically be the case versus Navy.