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Because Notre Dame has Saturday off, the pace of this week’s practices will be slightly different from those during a normal game week, offensive line coach Mike Denbrock said.

“The No. 1 goal is let’s get healthy. No. 2, get a jump start on next week’s opponent,” Denbrock said. “We’ll spoon-feed them little by little as this week goes along.”

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Quarterback Brady Quinn said this week affords the Irish extra time to develop their knowledge about the No. 11 Volunteers (6-1).

“I’m going to watch as much film as possible,” Quinn said.

What has he seen of Tennessee thus far?

“They have a lot of team speed,” he said. “They fly around.”

– Next: Nov. 6 at Tennessee, 2:30 p.m., WBBM-Ch. 2.