ND looked slow where they should have been fast and small where they shoulda been big.
Meh, that was mostly them in the 4th quarter, when their offense couldn't move the ball (due to vanilla kill the clock playcalling)...prior to that, they'd been controlling f$u for most of the previous 3 quarters.
They were largely able to run at will for the first 3/4s of the game and use their mismatch at TE to good effect too.
The nulls got more than a bit lucky on several blown calls (their first long TD run should have been called back for a pretty blatant hold) and midway through the 4th quarter, the refs blew a personal foul call for roughing the kicker that they only called "running into" (despite the guy clearly running into the planted leg) that would have given ND a first down.
Credit to f$u: the transfers have them better than the dumpster fire they've been the past few years and Milton will be an effective QB for them (assuming he stays the starter); but ND had built up an 18 point lead for a reason.
If anything, it shows you why playing super-conservative, vanilla offensive playcalling is just plain dumb in this era of college football and *especially* on the road.