Against Tennessee, who finished the 2005 season 7th in the nation in total defense ... Quinn threw for 295 yards, completed 60% of his passes, and had 3 TD's and 0 Int's.
Against USC, Quinn threw for 264 yards ... passed for 1 TD ... and ran for 1 TD.
At Michigan, he completed 63.3% of his passes and threw 2 TD's with 0 Int's.
Against Ohio St., he threw for 286 yards and completed 64.4% of his passes with no turnovers despite heavy pressure and 5 sacks. Samardzija also dropped a 50 yard bomb early in the game, which would have put Quinn at 336 yards passing. Hardly terrible vs. a defense that had nearly half it's starters taken in the 1st 3 rounds of the NFL draft.
Notre Dame lost 3 games last year ... and Quinn certainly wasn't the problem. In the Ohio St. and Michigan St. games, ND's 97th ranked pass defense was largely to blame. And in the USC game, it was again that 97th ranked pass defense that gave up the big play ... in addition to the infamous Bush push.