The countdown is on!
Exactly 14 weeks from now, just 98 days (we hope) Notre Dame will return to the football field for Season 133 when the Irish take on Navy in a Week Zero affair. Will the game be played as scheduled? I’m guessing not in Ireland but perhaps with the way the news has gone this week we’ll see it get underway on time.
Each day from now until Notre Dame kicks off the year we’ll count down the days with the number and why it’s significant in the history of Notre Dame football.
Yesterday, Nick Setta’s nearly-perfect career PAT conversion percentage got us through Friday.
Today we get into the weekend back on offense, with the longest run in Notre Dame history.
It was November of 2015 and Notre Dame was sitting fourth overall in the country, looking to take another step towards their first-ever College Football Playoff appearance. Leading Wake Forest 14-0 early in the second quarter the Irish had the ball backed up nearly to their own goal line.
98: Josh Adams sets the record for the longest run in the history of Notre Dame football.
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Notre Dame would win easy that afternoon, 28-7 as Adams would finish with 141 rushing yards. Just three years later Dexter Williams would nearly match the mark, taking a run 97 yards to the house at Virginia Tech in 2015.
That 2015 Notre Dame squad would eventually fall on the last play of the regular season at Stanford to miss out on their first CFP appearance.