Chris "Belt To" Ash - Defensive Coordinator

[T-Boone]

it is better defense.

 

[irishff1014]

It’s an ok defense good is yet to be determined

 

[NDPhilly]

Boise allegedly has a solid offense. Can’t really expect more from them imo. Good half.

 

[mrmcgrail]

Yeah and their long scoring drive was with Moore on the bench

 

[T-Boone]

Yeah and their long scoring drive was with Moore on the bench

Yep. They had one okay pass (which wasnt on the DBs) on that drive. It was mainly that penalty which should have been a sack which is frustrating.

 

[PolishDomer]

He still sucks

 

[Irish2155]

So bad

 

[Dale]

With Smith going down, they still haven’t played a single half of football with Moore - Gray - Smith - Johnson - Shuler

 

[Jimmy3Putt]

Good enough to get Cack bricked up!

 

[T-Boone]

Can't complain about that performance. Very good.

 

[Bane]

20 points over the last 8 quarters will do. Defense has settled in hopefully. Offense made mistakes early and needed to lean on the defense a bit and the defense answered the bell. Complimentary football, that is what you want.

 

[MacIrish75]

 

[Meatloaf]

He whole assed it today- credit where credit is due

 

[NDPhilly]

Very very good performance. Madsen, an experienced QB, was in hell all game. Run defense wasn’t perfect but was solid and didn’t allow any explosives.

Most importantly HAVOC. SO MUCH HAVOC. FINALLY.

Notre Dame 28-7 Boise State (Oct 4, 2025) Game Stats - ESPN

Complete team stats and game leaders for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. Boise State Broncos NCAAF game from October 4, 2025 on ESPN.

www.espn.com

 

[IrishLax]

From the files of I SHIT YOU NOT:

Curious about Boise State's defense, I decided to look up a quality advanced, opponent-adjusted, garbage time-adjusted, overall defensive efficiency metric (DFEI.) Let me know if anything jumps out at you.

Rk	Team
1	Ohio State
2	Texas
3	Penn State
4	Texas Tech
5	Oklahoma
6	Oregon
7	Georgia
8	Iowa
9	Alabama
10	Notre Dame
11	Texas A&M
25	Miami
37	Pittsburgh
54	Boise State
62	USC
72	NC State
73	Navy
74	Syracuse
86	Boston College
90	Arkansas
91	Stanford
101	Purdue

2025 DFEI Ratings — BCF Toys

They bake in last year's stats heavily for the first few weeks and then normalize as they get deeper into the season. That's why ND is in the 50s in SP+ for defense but ranked highly in FEI right now. They don't fully punt on last year's stats until like week 8 or so.

 

[SportsingHard]

They bake in last year's stats heavily for the first few weeks and then normalize as they get deeper into the season. That's why ND is in the 50s in SP+ for defense but ranked highly in FEI right now. They don't fully punt on last year's stats until like week 8 or so.

I don't have anything against your input. Just wanted to give you a complete absurd "BOO!!" like you gave me. What the fuck were you even booing? Me sharing an odd statistic?

 

[IrishLax]

Very very good performance. Madsen, an experienced QB, was in hell all game. Run defense wasn’t perfect but was solid and didn’t allow any explosives.

Most importantly HAVOC. SO MUCH HAVOC. FINALLY.

Notre Dame 28-7 Boise State (Oct 4, 2025) Game Stats - ESPN

Complete team stats and game leaders for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. Boise State Broncos NCAAF game from October 4, 2025 on ESPN.

www.espn.com

By far the best game of the season. Won up front, sticky coverage, created lots of negative plays. This game will grade out very, very highly.

 

[Sea Turtle]

Hopefully the defense continues to improve and Ash can build something here.

 

[IrishLax]

I don't have anything against your input. Just wanted to give you a complete absurd "BOO!!" like you gave me. What the fuck were you even booing? Me sharing an odd statistic?

I meant to boo the post where you were being a dick to Dale, my bad I'll change it.

 

[Dale]

I meant to boo the post where you were being a dick to Dale, my bad I'll change it.

He really doesn’t like getting hit with a boo I’ve learned

 

[NDVirginia19]

Chris Ash - you’re quite not gangsta yet. But maybe you’re at least average

 

[MacIrish75]

Please change thread to:

Chris Ash - Stonks

 

[Katzenboyer]

Happy with today. Finally felt like we were causing more havoc. And it was nice seeing the Boise backs run into a brick wall right at the LOS a couple times.

 

[Old Man Mike]

Defense looked high energy and full of fight almost every play. PRIDE has arisen. Good marks for that.

 

[IRISHDODGER]

Can't complain about that performance. Very good.

Agreed but hate that Smith went out w/ soft tissue issue again

 

[PutuporShutup]

Kudos to the dline. This is the first game I thought they played hard and tried to win 1-1. To me it’s looked like they’ve been trying to contain and fit first four games.

Also, not sure how obvious it needs to be that Bowen and ausberry should be 2nd string

Moore is a game changer having him back

Safeties played well

Gray is the brother clear weakness. He’s just too slow for corner

 

[FightingIrishLover7]

Whoever PSU DC is he sucks ash

 

[IrishLax]

 

[Irish Norseman]

We won’t know whether he’s figured it out until after USC. That offense is legit and will put up points. We will need turnovers and play really well on the money downs to force punts and FGs.

 

[StPaul_Irish]

Whoever PSU DC is he sucks ash

You saying we dodge a bullet?