A look at the final score and you might not think Saturday’s 45-24 Notre Dame win over Stanford and think they dominated for the entire afternoon.
Although domination eventually came on, for 27 minutes or so in the first half things were anything but for the Fighting Irish.
So who gets the reward of the game balls in today’s win that wraps up a 10-2 regular season?
Let’s check it out:
Offense:
I could go a couple different ways here with Chase Claypool scoring twice and providing the go-ahead touchdown or Tony Jones scoring and putting up 90 total yards but to me it was Ian Book that offensively was the biggest star.
Four touchdowns and no interceptions, his ground game wasn’t as strong today but it was just as lethal when it absolutely needed to be, his fourth down run for 26 yards to the Stanford three while still only leading 21-17 was a huge play by the quarterback who Brian Kelly had big-time praise for after the game (more on that, later).
Ian Book: 17/30, 255 yards, 4 TD, 0 INT, 29 rush yards
Defense and Special Teams…