“I was in the middle of meetings, and I broke out in tears and ran out”, Holmes said. Neither team played in a bowl game, which added to the magnitude of the Game of the Century.
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“I think it means a lot especially to me, my grandpa being part of that game”, Riley said.
When No. 12 Michigan State takes on No. 18 Notre Dame in South Bend on Saturday, it will mark 50 years since “The Game of the Century” -a bruising contest between No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 Michigan State that ended in a controversial 10-10 tie.
To that point, it’s a Michigan State team making a transtition at QB. Here’s what we learned from the big win. “We take it from here, start to develop an identity”.
The controversial finish stems from Notre Dame trying only one pass – O’Brien was sacked by Smith – and Irish coach Ara Parseghian allowing the clock to run out.
Tonight’s game will be under the lights of Notre Dame Stadium for the first of two primetime home games for Notre Dame this year.
Barrett played like the true Heisman contender in a showdown of stiffarm hopefuls, hitting 14-of-20 passes for 152 yards and four touchdowns and no interceptions while rushing 17 times for 74 yards.
The Fighting Irish fought back to make it a game with 21 unanswered points to end the game. And even Saturday, the higher-ranked Spartans – a top-10 team in the coaches poll – were the underdogs at Notre Dame Stadium.
Notre Dame and Michigan State crossed paths plenty of times on the recruiting trail in the 2016 class. We’ve got to put them in better position to make plays.
Gerald Holmes ran for 100 yards and two touchdowns, including a 73-yard score, saying he was inspired by the death of his grandmother.
Grandfather Jim played for the Fighting Irish from 1954-56 while their uncle Jim was a defensive back in 1976-77. That being said, he’s still dealing with a young wide receiving corps.
“It’s tough, you know, that wave starts to roll on you, just like it started rolling on them in the third quarter, and it’s tough to stop”, Dantonio said.
Who does Notre Dame play today?
“That wave starts to roll on you”, Dantonio said. “We got them into a good third-down situation and then we don’t do a very good job on two-vertical and give them an easy completion”. “We’ll have to turn this around quickly to play two matches tomorrow, but the focus will continue to be on what we do and tightening up some things that we’d like to see executed a bit better”.
In the aftermath, Kizer claimed responsibility for Notre Dame’s scoring drought between its first touchdown with 3:07 left in the first quarter and its second, a 15-yard pass to Equanimeous St. Kizer took the snap out of the shotgun formation and cut toward the left pylon. Eight members of the current freshman class committed to Notre Dame at some point following visits for one of the two night games past year against Texas and USC.
Notre Dame’s defense would get the ball back for Kizer and company as the Irish would not surrender to the Spartans.
Given new life, the Spartans’ offense scored on the next play. “We have a 24-hour rule, so we will figure out what we did wrong against Michigan State and go from there”.
Corley had four catches for 88 yards, while Shelton had eight grabs for 80 yards and a score.
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O’Connor gathered the offense before the final possession, before that final key first-down pass to Corley, and said he told his teammates that after more than three hours of grueling work, it was closing time.
