You "empty the bench", to give backup players some game experience

It's all about getting everyone in the game. Not good optics for ND....but, hey, I didn't watch the game, so I can't say it was intentional running up of the score.

Eight different players scored the ten touchdowns, which is rather remarkable.

Is a little piece of shit too. I love watching his face whenever they get beaten. Smug little prick he is.

His call. His substitutions. The players all want a taste and it's the coach that has to strategize restraint.

Making the playoffs is the only goal of these big dollar Division 1 schools. Each post season game is millions of dollars. And status in what passes for "recruiting" in the new college football (all sports) format. I'm not making excuses for ND. I'm a diehard Hurricanes fan and we beat beat ND and have the same record. They think they're blessed by the almighty and deserve special consideration. 🙌

…and I was irritated they ran up the score. If they did.

But I don’t know, and no one has shown, that ND left its starters in the game to the end.

Did ND leave its starters in the game? Or, is Syracuse - second to the last in the ACC - a team that has lost its last SEVEN games, just not that good a team against a team that is NATIONALLY ranked at #9?

Could it be that even with ND putting in the “B Team,” Syracuse was going down? That it was inevitable?

NB: I have no love for ND. My alma mater played them often when I was in college. Still root against them.