Notre Dame Routs Iowa State: 5 Takeaways

I didn’t love everything early but he did do what my pre-game requests were in being able to isolate one of Claypool, Lenzy or Kmet and to exploit an Iowa State defense who didn’t have play-makers that could defend any of those three one-on-one.

We’ve been pretty open about our appreciation for Chase Claypool all season at Fighting Irish Wire and he went out in a blaze of glory, scoring the games first touchdown, recovering a fumble on special teams and racking up 146 receiving yards on the afternoon.

Had it not been for a very-questionable overturned call he would have had a second touchdown as well when the issue was still a bit in doubt.

How Clark Lea was able to take Kolar away and Iowa State’s offense was a lost cause because of it, the Cyclones didn’t have an answer for Claypool all day.

Claypool scored his 13th touchdown of the year and went over 1000 yards receiving on the season, putting him in very-rare air by Notre Dame standards.

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