Adam Rittenberg explains what Notre Dame's plan are for CJ Carr and the offense as they start their spring session. (0:53) The idea of returning production in college football is easy enough to understand: The more continuity and experience you return from last season, the more likely you are to improve. It's how things have always worked, but is that still true in 2026, with the transfer portal and extreme player movement dominating the sport? Yes. To a degree. It's still better to return a lot of your production than a little, even if last year's headliner bombed. Clemson led the nation in returning production heading into 2025, which furthered the idea that a potential rebirth was coming to Death Valley East. But a combination of injuries, tactical stagnation and disappointing development held back the Tigers, and they slipped from 10-4 and 22nd in SP+ to 7-6 and 34th. Most of the rest of the top 10, however, fared well.…