I woke up this morning and began flipping channels only to come to ESPN-U. I thought I was still in a haze when it said the 2014 Music City Bowl between Notre Dame and LSU was being shown.
If you’re a Notre Dame fan you remember the Irish pulling off the win to finish a 2014 season that began with so much positivity until one bad call in Tallahassee sent things spiraling out of control the second half of the season.
It did end on a high note however as the Irish earned their first win over an SEC team since beating Tennessee in 2005.
Do you remember how ridiculous that game was, though?
A young man named Leonard Fournette announcing his arrival by returning a kickoff 100 yards for a socre and setting the record for longest run in Music City Bowl history, an 89 yard touchdown run. He’d finish with 264 total yards.
Notre Dame went back and forth between Everett Golson and Malik Zaire at quarterback as the two combined to throw for 186 yards and a touchdown while Zaire also helped play the ball-possession game in carrying 22 times for 96 yards.
Notre Dame ran the ball 51 times on the day, an almost exact 2:1 ratio as they attempted 26 passes.
CJ Prosise began his transformation to running back that afternoon as he had three carries (also had three carries all year coming in) for 75 yards, including a 50 yard scoring run. A pretty nice first step for what wound up being a special 2015 for him.
LSU quarterback Anthony Jennings completed a then game-record 75 yard touchdown pass to wide receiver John Diarse. Jennings other 13 pass attempts on the afternoon totaled just 76 more yards. Joe Burrow was still a senior at Athens High School on this day.
And most importantly it all ended with Kyle Brindza hitting a 32 yard field goal as time expired to give Notre Dame (+8.5) the upset victory.
That was five years ago today, relive some of those fun memories by watching the highlights below:
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