Perspective did not change much for Marcus Freeman even after a 70-7 demolition of Syracuse . The Notre Dame football team's head coach downplayed the historic blowout, stressing that his job is to keep the Irish locked into the same mindset every week, whether the score is 70-7 or 10-7.

As he told reporters, per Tyler Horka of On3 Sports, the goal is to celebrate wins, then immediately turn the page and search for corrections, because “it’s never going to be perfect” no matter how gaudy the margin looks.

That pursuit of consistency just got more complicated. Bruce Feldman of The Athletic reported on X that linebacker Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa, Notre Dame’s fourth-leading tackler, will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury.

Losing a young tone-setter in the middle of the defe

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