No. 16 Notre Dame finishes up their regular season at Stanford today in a game that should feature plenty of rain, wind and a sloppy track. As we discussed earlier this week, Stanford has been a house of horrors for the last decade with Notre Dame losing each of their last five games there.
Enough with the negative ends, how about we get ready for game day and a chance at another ten-win regular season with something positive that’s happened against Stanford instead?
Or, even better than that – how about two classic finishes against Stanford?
We all remember the 2012 season. 5-0 and No. 7 Notre Dame was hosting No. 17 Stanford in a match-up the Irish had lost the last three meetings between.
Trailing late the Irish rallied to send things to overtime where an all-time finish awaited:
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Two years later the Irish were off to another hot start, sitting at 4-0 and No. 9 when No. 14 Stanford returned to South Bend.
Although 2014 didn’t end with a 12-0 regular season like two years previous did so this one gets more forgotten about in Irish lore, but for one afternoon Ben Koyack was a legend.
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Here’s to hoping today’s game ends that five game losing streak out there, but doesn’t require any last second heroics, either!