Day after: Final thoughts on Notre Dame’s Blue & Gold game showing

The spring practices are over for Notre Dame as it ended with the annual Blue & Gold game on Saturday afternoon . The Irish had an entertaining game, one that had a score that was a bit misleading. Head coach Marcus Freeman made the game close at the end, giving transfer kicker Spencer Porath a chance to win it for the Blue team, and nailed the attempt for a 41-40 victory over the Gold team.

There were a few players who didn’t participate, but many did including CJ Carr. Let’s start off with what we saw from the second-year starter. CJ Carr’s performance won’t inspire many BRUTAL: In today's Press Conference after the Blue and Gold game Mike Denbrock had this to say: "CJ Carr is in a position now where he can steer the ship.

Sometimes he steers it in a ditch and sometimes he steers it on the straight and narrow. We're still working through all… pic. twitter.

com/oOkwvQloSe — CathVSConf☘️ (@CathVSConf) April 25, 2026 Remember, this is just the spring game and surely the coaching staff was going to work on things. Carr didn’t look as sharp as we would expect, as he missed more than a few easy attempts and had a tipped pass picked off. I think that had to do a lot with him dominating the open scrimmage last week and defensive coordinator Chris Ash taking that personally.