Notre Dame's Disruptive Pass Defense Will Carry Over Into 2026
By Trevor Trowbridge••Roundtable.io
After overcoming early philosophical hurdles, Chris Ash’s unit prioritized disruption over yardage. With elite playmakers returning, the Irish’s ball-hawking secondary is primed to dominate the aerial game.
Notre Dame's pass defense, and really the defense as a whole, started off the 2025 season under a lot of scrutiny, and rightfully so. The first year of the Chris Ash era on defense was not off to a h…