Notre Dame football “wrapped” up its spring practices on Saturday, as the Blue team defeated the Gold team 76-31.

It was a high scoring contest, but with adjusted rules that favored the offense, it was a fairly easy victory for that side of the ball. The Irish did the right thing and held out some players with nagging injuries, and even better news was that head coach Marcus Freeman told the media that there were no significant injuries to anyone on Saturday.

While this wasn’t really the Notre Dame team that we will see in the fall, it was great to see some of the younger players stand out. Find out below my final five thoughts on the Blue-Gold game.

If this was a one game decision, it was pretty clear that CJ Carr would be the starter against Miami in the opener. I’ve seen plenty of people on social claiming that he’s won the job, but it’s not as easy as that. Carr threw the only interception of the three competitors, but still looked very good. Kenny Minchey showed his very strong arm off, along with some very good running ability. Steve Angeli started off slow, but finished strong, but that didn’t instill a lot of confidence in anyone that the most experienced of the group is winning the job.

Freeman said in his post-game that he’d like it to be a two-man race in the fall, but that doesn’t look like it will be the case. It wouldn’t surprise me at all to see at least two of them playing against the Hurricanes, as none of them have really separated from the pack but still have a few practices left to make that jump.