Notre Dame upsets Clemson 47-40: 5 instant takeaways

Notre Dame ended Clemson’s 36 game regular season winning streak Saturday. Here are your instant takeaways from the instant classic.

You get the hype with so many games but so rarely do they live up to the hype.

Saturday night that was anything but the case as No. 4 Notre Dame finally completed the task and won one of these huge showdowns against a top-tier foe.

Insetad of going the way of 2014 Florida State, 2015 Clemson, 2015 Stanford and 2017 and 2019 Georgia, this one went to the Irish and leaves them the only remaining unbeated team in the ACC.

We’ll get into so much more in the coming hours, days and weeks but let’s quickly recap that all-timer.

And let’s start by praising Ian Book.