Notre Dame football: Book catches coach on all-time leaderboard

With his first quarter touchdown pass to Ben Skowronek, Ian Book tied his current position coach and play-caller on an all-time list.

In his third season as Notre Dame’s starting quarterback Ian Book has struggled to really get things going in the passing game like we’d hope he would, but he’s still been moving up the all-time charts at Notre Dame as he’s started to pass some of the most legendary quarterbacks in various categories.

In the first possession of Saturday’s game at Pitt it was his current coach and offensive play-caller that he passed on the all-time list of career touchdown passes at Notre Dame.

Book connected with graduate-transfer Ben Skowronek for a 34 yard touchdown pass that gave Notre Dame a 7-0 lead early and moved the Irish signal caller out of a tie with Jimmy Clausen and into a tie with Tommy Rees for the second most touchdown passes in program history with 61.

With his next touchdown pass Book will move into sole possession of second place all-time in the Notre Dame record book, but he’ll need a miracle to catch Brady Quinn, who threw 95 touchdown passes for the Irish between 2003 and 2006.