And when you upset teams like Notre Dame, everybody shares in the joy, from formerly forgotten upperclassmen, to budding frosh and soph stars, to the redshirts on the bench and the recruits in the bleachers.
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While many Spartan fans are wishing that Notre Dame would have won to make the week 3 matchup in South Bend more appealing to the selection committee the Longhorns delivered more than just a victory. “So when they are called upon, they’re ready to play”. He can be heard Monday through Friday from 4:40-5:20 p.m. on The Sports Animal radio network, including FM-98.1. The Buckeyes then ran the table and made the playoff with one loss. The postgame celebration felt like a throwback to 2009, the last time they were nationally relevant.
Swoopes ran for a touchdown in the second quarter, then pounded Notre Dame with two more in overtime. The Longhorns went from being unranked in the preseason poll to No. 11 this week, marking their first appearance in the AP poll under head coach Charlie Strong. Kelly has not gotten further word on their status with the office of community standards. So we’ll critically evaluate.
“Once we do that and get a chance to sit as a staff and talk about it, we’ll have a better sense”. After the game, Strong said what the screaming throng felt: “Our fans really needed that”. This could change by next week, and the way the off-season can totally change everything with players graduating or going to the National Football League and recruiting, it will definitely be a different story next year when the Longhorns are either not as fun, or, more likely, even better. The termites have been nibbling at the Notre Dame defensive coordinator in his first two years, but now they’re in a feeding frenzy after Sunday’s 50-47 double-overtime loss to Texas.
As for the offense, Kelly held off on naming a starting quarterback for Saturday’s game against Nevada.
“The message to the team (Monday) was about closing and finishing”.
“It’s good to see Texas play the way they did”, said TCU coach Gary Patterson. “But, clearly, win or lose player safety should be at the front of this game and we don’t believe that that was the case in this instance”. “And defensively, obviously, we couldn’t come up with a stop”, he said Tuesday.
“Again, I like their effort, I like their fight”. Junior quarterback Zack Greenlee transferred from Fresno State, and before that he was an Elite 11 finalist during his senior year of high school. You don’t see pro teams play two quarterbacks in a game by design, and win.
Kelly would not single out any guilty individuals by name.
“It was just an impressive win and I was just so happy for the players”.
Now it’s true they burned him by returning a missed field goal 109 yards for a touchdown a la Auburn vs. Alabama a couple of years back, but that just adds to the allure the Houston team should have when it comes to voting on them as a conference member.
Notre Dame: Wide receiver Torii Hunter Jr. was knocked out of the game in the third quarter on a ferocious hit from DeShon Elliott in the end zone that broke up an Irish touchdown.
“Swoopes da’ man, bro”, guard Kent Perkins told me before I could say a word to him after the game.
Can the Irish bounce back, emotionally? They had no confidence in their offense to come back from any deficit, and it was evident by the body language on the field and the sideline. “You’ve got to take this game, correct the mistakes, move on to the next one, and we can’t have the same ones”.
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“It creates questions about the credibility of the refs and how well they’re doing their jobs”, he said.
