Current Notre Dame students are too young to remember the Bush Push. When Ohio State was on the precipice of Notre Dame’s end zone in the final seconds with the Irish holding a slim lead, the hope was that an equally heartbreaking ending could be avoided. Instead, there’s a new generation of pain for Irish fans to endure as a similar play unfolded to give the Buckeyes a 17-14 win.
As we have said all week on this site, a victory would have completely changed the narrative surrounding the Irish. With this loss, the talking point that they can’t beat the teams in the top tier of college football will remain in spite of the fact that they nearly pulled it off. To paraphrase a famous quote in “We Are Marshall”, folks only remember one thing, and it isn’t how a losing team played. Results are all that matter.
Here are some Irish fans licking their wounds on social media: