What to keep an eye on as Notre Dame gets the 2024 football season officially underway on Wednesday.
The long winter after the College Football Playoff concluded, the spring of the transfer portal mixed with some practice, and the summer months have come and gone.Notre Dame football officially gets underway on Wednesday, July 31. A day that used to be reserved for the Major League Baseball trade deadline now has Notre Dame football fans toasting to "Happy New Year" in their own little ways.
There are five things I'm looking forward to seeing and tracking over the next month before Notre Dame squares off at Texas A&M on Aug. 31 to kick-off the 2024 college football season in prime time.Riley Leonard enters camp as the starting quarterback and that's not really up for debate.God-forbid something happens to Leonard this year, Notre Dame will be in a tough spot to make the College Football Playoff let alone make any noise upon getting there.
This position battle won't guarantee anything beyond 2024 but will help set the tone when the expectation hopefully changes from "win a game or two in the CFP" to "win the whole stinking thing".There has been nothing more dramatic surrounding this Notre Dame football outfit since 2023 concluded.Following it were incoming graduate transfers that should increase the productivity of the position as well as fresh health for a few standouts from the last couple seasons.
One thing is almost certain - this unit will have a tougher test in practice all fall than it likely will on any Saturday as Notre Dame offers perhaps the nation's best secondary.For years now Notre Dame has had a defensive unit that has one seemingly great linebacker but a significant gap between said player and the rest of the group.Jack Kiser returns as the grizzled vet, ready for one last go at Notre Dame.
Charles Jagusah appears healthier than last fall and set to man left tackle. Who replaces Fisher on the right side? Veteran Tosh Baker or sophomore Aamil Wagner?
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