Notre Dame Football: Hot and Cold Takes for Virginia Tech

How’d we do last week?

As mentioned last week, I will feature the Most Interesting, Most Wildly Inaccurate, and Most Accurate Takes for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish from the previous week. Here we go!

***Fortunately***, there were no college football games played last weekend so all takes were irrelevant.

And now onto the takes for this weeks matchup between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Virginia Tech Hokies

Cold Take

Chase Claypool has more catches, yards, and touchdowns of any game so far this season.

The Maple Bandit will be back in a huge way this weekend. He expressed in a tweet his unwavering confidence in quarterback, Ian Book, with a Teddy Roosevelt “Man in the Arena” quote.

If this doesn’t scream I am going to take souls this weekend, I don’t know what does. Claypool has been pretty incredible this year, but this week he blows the doors off of VT. Book will looks to get him to double digit catches before the 4th quarter. Look for this man to be playing with his hair and syrup on fire. #maplebandit #maplebandit

Hot Take

The Defense has 6+ Sacks

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Virginia Tech’s quarterback Hendon Hooker is a definitely a dual threat. He has relied on his legs, but has been efficient with his arm as well after filling in for the turnover prone Ryan Willis. However, he had a pretty bad looking knee injury (only a hyper extension) against North Carolina a couple of weeks ago. Despite his apparent recovery, he will not be a full speed, and our defense will be. They will be hungry after giving more than 30 points for the first time under Clark Lea. They have something to prove against a dual threat quarterback who is hobbled, and thus more of a single threat. I think the entire defense plays heated all day, even if the Irish offense doesn’t come out firing.

Your Takes: Please leave your takes below (hot, cold medium-any temp). I will feature the Top Takes next week. GO IRISH!