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Notre Dame Game Ball Awards for Camping Bowl Victory

He played like a man whose hair was on fire and dominated all afternoon, a great momentum builder for a 2020 season where his and team expectations will be sky-high.

Notre Dame steamrolled Iowa State 33-9 on Saturday, wrapping up an 11-2 campaign that saw them win reach that win total for a second year in a row for the first time since the 1988-89 seasons.

It may not have been the bowl game Notre Dame players, coaches or fans wanted but it was what they were handed and they dominated Iowa State for really the entirety of the games sixty minutes.

With the 33-9 win there were plenty of great performances to be seen but here are who won our game ball awards at Fighting Irish Wire for their play in each phase of the game.

Special Teams:

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Notre Dame Records Update Post Camping World Bowl Victory

Following their outstanding performances in Notre Dame’s Camping World Bowl victory over the Iowa State Cyclones, here’s where a pair of standouts land in the Notre Dame record books at the conclusion of the 2019 season.

Following their outstanding performances in Notre Dame’s Camping World Bowl victory over the Iowa State Cyclones, here’s where a pair of standouts land in the Notre Dame record books at the conclusion of the 2019 season.

Quarterback Ian Book

Camping World Bowl Numbers = 20/28, 247 passing yards, 1 TD, 7 rushes, 30 yards

Career Passing Yards

  1. Brady Quinn = 11,762
  2. Jimmy Clausen = 8,148
  3. Tommy Rees = 7,670
  4. Ron Powlus = 7,602
  5. Steve Beuerlein = 6,527
  6. Ian Book = 6,118
  7. Rick Mirer = 5,997 (passed by Book during the game)

With one more season, Book seems poised to land comfortable at #2 behind Brady Quinn

Career Passing Touchdowns

  1. Brady Quinn = 95
  2. Tommy Rees = 61
  3. Jimmy Clausen = 60
  4. Ian Book = 58
  5. Ron Powlus = 52

Like passing yards, Book looks like he’ll finish #2 here with one more year.

Single Season Passing Yards

  1. Brady Quinn = 3,919 (2005)
  2. Jimmy Clausen =3,722 (2009)
  3. Everett Golson = 3,445 (2014)
  4. Brady Quinn = 3,426 (2006)
  5. Tommy Rees = 3,257 (2013)
  6. Ian Book = 3,196 (2019)
  7. Jimmy Clausen = 3,172 (2008, passed by Book during the game)

Single Season Passing Touchdowns

  1. Brady Quinn = 37 (2006)
  2. Ian Book = 35 (2019)
  3. Brady Quinn = 32 (2005)

Career Total Offense

  1. Brady Quinn = 11,944
  2. Jimmy Clausen = 7,793
  3. Tommy Rees = 7,543
  4. Ron Powlus = 7,479
  5. Ian Book = 7,334

Single Season Total Offense

  1. Brady Quinn = 4,009 (2005)
  2. Ian Book = 3,763 (2019)
  3. Everett Golson = 3,728 (2014)

Wide Receiver Chase Claypool

Camping World Bowl Numbers = 7 catches, 146 yards, 1 TD

Career Receptions

  1. Michael Floyd = 271
  2. TJ Jones = 181
  3. Jeff Samardzija = 179
  4. Rhema McKnight = 179
  5. Tom Gatewood, Golden Tate = 157
  6. Chase Claypool = 155

Career Receiving Touchdowns

  1. Michael Floyd = 37
  2. Will Fuller = 30
  3. Jeff Samardzija = 27
  4. Golden Tate = 26
  5. Derrick Mayes, Rhema McKnight = 22
  6. Chase Claypool = 20
  7. Tom Gatewood, TJ Jones = 19 (passed by Claypool during game)

Single Season Receiving Touchdowns

  1. Will Fuller (2014), Golden Tate (2009), Rhema McKnight (2006), Jeff Samardzija (2005) = 15
  2. Will Fuller (2015), Chase Claypool (2019) = 14

Although players like Braden Lenzy and Lawrence Keys will continue to develop and could provide excitement on the perimeter for the Irish offense, Claypool will be sorely missed.

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.

There was concern about if Notre Dame would be interested in playing Saturday, how much their heads were in preparing for the Camping World Bowl and attention was only drawn to that this week as Brian Kelly called out his team publicly multiple times for not being focused.

Maybe it was a motivational technique or maybe it was just a lion playing coy, but that in no way, shape or form wound up being how things played out Saturday as Notre Dame steam-rolled Iowa State – to win the Camping World Bowl.

The Fighting Irish finish the year 11-2 have a chance to perhaps finish the year around the top 12, not that any ranking short of one really matters much.

Here are my five takeaways from Saturday’s blowout win.

1:  Clark Lea Owned Matt Campbell

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Claypool’s Monster Half Leads Notre Dame to 20-6 Intermission Lead

Notre Dame scored two plays later and takes a 20-6 lead to the locker room at halftime in large part to their star wide receiver who also had a first quarter fumble recovery on special teams.

Through thirty minutes of the Camping World Bowl it’s obvious the best player on the field today has been none other than Chase Claypool who has pulled in four receptions for 112 yards and a touchdown.  It’s worth noting I have no idea how replay officials took away what should have been his second touchdown reception of the half as well, but I digress.

Leading 3-0 in the first quarter and facing a third-and-12, Ian Book found Claypool in the right side of the end zone to score the game’s first touchdown.

Claypool has been fantastic all year and made huge plays in key spots to extend game-deciding drives time and time again.

After Notre Dame stopped Iowa State on a fourth and one late in the first half, Book immediately went to his favorite weapon, Mr. Claypool himself and connected for what anyone watching thought was his second touchdown of the game, but officials overturned the touchdown call and marked him down inside the one yard line.

Notre Dame scored two plays later and takes a 20-6 lead to the locker room at halftime in large part to their star wide receiver who also had a first quarter fumble recovery on special teams.

You’ve got one more half of Chase Claypool ever in a Notre Dame uniform.  Enjoy it and FINISH!

Watch: Two Forced Fumbles Mean Fast Start for Notre Dame

An uninspired opening drive by the Irish meant for a quick punt where Alohi Gilman did what Alohi Gilman likes to do, make an instant impact ripping a ball free and forcing a fumble that senior Chase Claypool recovered in his final game at Notre Dame.

Notre Dame elected to receive the opening kickoff in the Camping World Bowl and in the “about time” category Braden Lenzy was back deep returning the kick, something he took back to twenty yard line.

An uninspired opening drive by the Irish meant for a quick punt where Alohi Gilman did what Alohi Gilman likes to do, make an instant impact ripping a ball free and forcing a fumble that senior Chase Claypool recovered in his final game at Notre Dame.

Ian Book would escape pressure on a fourth down and help get Notre Dame into field goal range to take the early 3-0 lead.

On Iowa State’s first offensive series of the day Brock Purdy had the Cyclones driving before rolling to his left and being greeted by Jeremiah Owusu-Karamoah who we can start the 2020 hype machine about.

That drive would end with Ian Book finding Chase Claypool who made an outstanding catch in the end zone to make it a 10-0 Notre Dame lead that they finished the first quarter holding.

Look: Notre Dame Shows Off Camping World Bowl Uniforms

What we don’t see is if the commitment to green in the gloves and cleats will be made like in last year’s Cotton Bowl or if it’ll be the look we’ve seen the

Does Notre Dame show up and play to their potential today or do they sleepwalk through the Camping World Bowl against Iowa State?

If it’s at all like I feel this morning it will be a slow start to put it nicely. Regardless, they’ll look good doing it as they’ll be in their road uniforms and since it’s a postseason game, names will be on the back.

What we don’t see is if the commitment to green in the gloves and cleats will be made like in last year’s Cotton Bowl or if it’ll be the look we’ve seen the Irish have in road games all season.

For what it’s worth (nothing, actually) Notre Dame has not won a bowl game while wearing white since the 2010 Sun Bowl as they beat Miami 33-17 in a game the Irish dominated, leading 30-3 entering the fourth quarter.

Alright, enough about fashion. Let’s put the ball in the air already and get to kickoff.

Camping World Bowl: 5 Keys to a Notre Dame Victory

If given the opportunity Notre Dame has to step on throats and not let up because the second they do the Cyclones will, get this, come storming back.

No. 14 Notre Dame wraps up their 2019 campaign Saturday as they take on 7-5 Iowa State for the first time in program history in the annual Camping World Bowl in Orlando, Florida.

There isn’t a ton at stake for Notre Dame besides pride and it being the final time we’ll see the likes of Chase Claypool and others in a Fighting Irish uniform, you hope to see them go out after a win.

What does Notre Dame have to do in order to secure that win however against an upstart Iowa State program who is led by one of the best and brightest young coaches in all of college football?

Step 1:  Start FAST

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Notre Dame Football: Plays of the Year – Number 6

He might not be the fastest receiver in the 2020 NFL Draft but his ball skills are as good as anybody else’s.  Enjoy your final game with Claypool in a Notre Dame uniform on Saturday because come 2020 he will be missed in blue and gold.

#83Nation.

As we near the end of the 2019 calendar year its a good time to look back at everything that went on in 2019 both personally and for our favorite sports teams.  We’re counting down the 10 best plays of Notre Dame’s 10-2 regular season.

We will unveil the plays  now through Friday – feel free to leave comments in our forum if you agree or disagree or are just looking for some general Notre Dame or college football conversation.

Here’s what we have so far:
No. 10 – Cole Kmet Gives Notre Dame the Lead at Georgia
No. 9 – Kyle Hamilton Announces His Arrival
No. 8 – Finally, A Perfected Executed Screen Pass
No. 7 – Special Teams Shift Momentum

Which brings us to number six:

Chase Claypool didn’t enter Notre Dame with the star hype that some receivers in fairly recent memory did like Will Fuller or Michael Floyd, but he’ll leave with an impressive list of accomplishments and being a downright nasty target for Ian Book over the last two seasons.

Claypool started his senior campaign fine, but far from special.  In 2019 he had four touchdown receptions through the teams first eight games which isn’t bad, but hardly impressive compared to his final month of the regular season.

After multiple clutch catches by him helped lead to a comeback win over Virginia Tech to start November, he soared scoring eight times over his final four regular season games.

I wish I could take one catch and say that it was Chase Claypool’s biggest moment but I simply can’t.  For that reason I award the sixth best play of the season to my favorite two Chase Claypool touchdown receptions this season:

The first for me was actually his fourth on a November afternoon against Navy.  He simply goes up over the Navy defender, gets both hands on the ball and is able to keep his foot in-bounds all while maintaining possession.  It seemed like a lot to type but he makes it all look incredibly easy during his fourth score that day.

The other Claypool catch that especially stood out to me was his 41 yard go-ahead touchdown reception against Stanford the final weekend of November.  Claypool again out-works the defenders, leaps and makes the acrobatic catch all while maintaining possession and giving Notre Dame their first lead of the day, one they would never look back from.

He might not be the fastest receiver in the 2020 NFL Draft but his ball skills are as good as anybody else’s.  Enjoy your final game with Claypool in a Notre Dame uniform on Saturday because come 2020 he will be missed in blue and gold.

#83Nation.

Notre Dame Football: Plays of the Year – Number 8

Three blockers to take on three defenders all while it’s an incredibly easy throw for Ian Book to make to Tony Jones.  It may not have been as important as Book’s touchdown pass to Jones in the regular season finale at USC in 2018 but the execution is perfect on a type of play Notre Dame hasn’t executed well with any regularity for quite some time.

As we near the end of the 2019 calendar year its a good time to look back at everything that went on in 2019 both personally and for our favorite sports teams.  We’re counting down the 10 best plays of Notre Dame’s 10-2 regular season.

We will unveil the plays twice a day from now through Friday and feel free to leave comments in our forum if you agree or disagree or are just looking for some general Notre Dame or college football conversation.

Here’s what we have so far:
No. 10 – Cole Kmet Gives Notre Dame the Lead at Georgia
No. 9 – Kyle Hamilton Announces His Arrival

Which brings us to number eight:

Watching Notre Dame’s offense in recent years has left a lot to be desired in terms of the screen game.  How can you tell?  Just by reading that you already remember the most-successful and best looking screen pass of the 2019 season if you watched each Notre Dame game.

It’s something that has lacked execution for years and did for large chunks of this year.

But it was something that was finally executed perfectly in the final game of the regular season and got Notre Dame on the board for their first score of the day at Stanford.

Tony Jones, Jr. gets the love for capping the drive but the execution of this play is flat-out perfect.

Three blockers to take on three defenders all while it’s an incredibly easy throw for Ian Book to make to Tony Jones.  It may not have been as important as Book’s touchdown pass to Jones in the regular season finale at USC in 2018 but the execution is perfect on a type of play Notre Dame hasn’t executed well with any regularity for quite some time.

Stay tuned as we have seven more plays to count down before kickoff on Saturday.

Notre Dame Football: Top Plays of the Year – Number 10

Previous to 2019 Cole Kmet was a pretty strong rumor and the idea of him was great to Notre Dame fans but the actual output left plenty wondering what he’d do as the main tight end entering the season.

As we near the end of the 2019 calendar year its a good time to look back at everything that went on in 2019 both personally and for our favorite sports teams.  We’ll be doing that in the coming days here at Fighting Irish Wire over the next few days as we continue to get ready for the Camping World Bowl versus Iowa State on Saturday, December 28.

In the days leading up to the bowl game we will be counting down the top-10 plays of the 2019 Notre Dame football regular season.  They could have happened on offense, defense or special teams but they had to have happened in a game and not in practice so please go easy on us when we fail to have 10 Kyle Hamilton plays on the list.

We will unveil the plays twice a day from now through Friday and feel free to leave comments in our forum if you agree or disagree or are just looking for some general Notre Dame or college football conversation.

I don’t want to keep you waiting any longer so here is the first play on that list:

Previous to 2019 Cole Kmet was a pretty strong rumor and the idea of him was great to Notre Dame fans but the actual output left plenty wondering what he’d do as the main tight end entering the season.

His year couldn’t have gotten off to much worse of a start as he broke his collarbone early in fall camp and missed the first two games of the season.

When he did finally take the field in game-action, well ahead of when most expected him to be ready to play I should add, he didn’t take long to be a dominating force.

That is why our number 10 play of the year for 2019’s regular season is:

Cole Kmet’s go-ahead touchdown at Georgia

Notre Dame was unable to hold on for victory in that contest but Kmet showed he was worth every word of hype that night, finishing with nine receptions for 108 yards and that touchdown on the night.

He would finish the regular season with five more touchdown receptions and a total of 41 catches for 482 yards.

He said previously he’d be returning to school for the baseball season this spring and his senior year of football but until he’s actual playing on the diamond I will be a bit worried about that just because others have caught up with what we told you two months ago – that he’d be under strong consideration to be a first round draft pick.

Stay tuned to FIW throughout the week as we’ll continue to countdown the top 10 plays of the regular season.  Number nine will be out early this evening.

Thanks as always for reading and as always – Go Irish!