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Miami loss leaves Marcus Freeman with a long list of fixes, but Notre Dame’s QB isn’t one of them

Eric Hansenby: Eric Hansen09/01/25EHansenND
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Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman during the third quarter at Hard Rock Stadium Sunday night in Miami Gardens, Fla. Sam Navarro/Imagn Images

Marcus Freeman knows he’s pushed this Notre Dame football program beyond the point where silver linings resonate anymore. The stakes, the dreams, the blueprint, the administration at the fourth-year Irish football coach’s back are all bigger than that now. And perhaps what redshirt freshman quarterback CJ Carr did in his Notre Dame starting debut Sunday night in a 27-24 season-opening loss at soggy, sweltering and apparently underranked No. 10 Miami, will sync up with that sooner than seemingly anyone imagined.