The Play that keeps us from Glendale

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Fourth quarter of the Michigan game, trailing 40-21 we had the ball with about eight minutes left around the Michigan 30. Brady Quinn drops back and is blindsided by Lamar Woodley. He picks up the ball, breaks tackles, and rumbles all the way to the end zone. Michigan 47. Notre Dame 21.

If that play didn't happen we most likely score on a defense that looked porous in the second half, making the score a semi-respectable 40-28. Now, after a big win over SC this weekend, people could legitimately vote us above UM and we'd have a very good chance at the championship. Now, though, the only way I could posibly see us making it is with a big win over SC this weekend, Fla St over Fla, and LSU over Ark. These ALL need to happen in one weekend (still unlikely we pass UM) or else we won't get enough "redistributed votes" (the kind that put Ark over us) and we will finish at highest #3.

Go Irish, Beat Trojans.... but here's to wishing that play never happened.
 
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If you are playing the what-if game, you might as well just start with that first INT in the Michigan game that was tipped by Carlson.
 
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can't look at the past. no one talks about the horrible arkansas loss to usc. IF we beat usc by 2+ td's we have a viable shot.
 
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dankus said:
If you are playing the what-if game, you might as well just start with that first INT in the Michigan game that was tipped by Carlson.
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Yeah...that play was a fluke... Getting hammered by Lamar Woodley...that just gets you in a group with a LOT of people. He's good.

But Carlson losing the ball off of his fingertips and it getting intercepted...that was very unusual.
 
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ND'10 said:
Fourth quarter of the Michigan game, trailing 40-21 we had the ball with about eight minutes left around the Michigan 30. Brady Quinn drops back and is blindsided by Lamar Woodley. He picks up the ball, breaks tackles, and rumbles all the way to the end zone. Michigan 47. Notre Dame 21.

If that play didn't happen we most likely score on a defense that looked porous in the second half, making the score a semi-respectable 40-28. ...
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If the game happened anything like that description Quinn would be the Heisman leader today.

Around the 8 minute mark of the 4th Q, Quinn hit McKnight down the left sideline. Rhema looked upfield toward the endzone instead of looking the ball into his hands. Incompletion.
McKnight held on to the next pass for a 14 yd gain. Then Walker caught a short dumpoff. On 2nd and 8 Quinn was flushed out of the pocked, rolled right and threw left across the grain into double coverage for his THIRD INT of the game.

The Woodley TD came with less than 4 minutes in the game. 1st and 10 at the UM 40, Quinn dropped back 7 yds, no pressure, Quinn picks up his right arm to throw and the ball slips out of hand. It ends up on the 46 at the hash mark about a yard to Quinn's left behind Harris, Santucci, and a couple of UM defenders. Quinn pounces on the ball and rolls to his left on his back as he does the ball squirts free. Woodley who was about 5 yds from Quinn when he lost his grip on the ball, THE FIRST TIME, scoops up the loose ball and rumbles down the sideline. Carlson who was kept in to block with Young, chases Woodley down, he first makes a swipe at him then dives at him around the 5 yd line getting his hands on Woodley's hips but is unable to hold on and bring him down to prevent the score.

The Play that keeps us from Glendale
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ND had 5 turnovers in the game, 4 by Quinn (3 INTs and the fumble). He only got charged with one fumble on the play despite losing it twice, both unforced. Woodley never laid a hand on him much less blindsided him. That play cost him the Heisman.

There were many key plays on offense and on defense the ND didn't make but UM did. The 5 turnovers, NOT that one play nor any one play, are keeping us from Glendale (providing we don't repeat that kind of performance next Saturday).
 
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To be honest, I'm hoping we get the big east champion in a BCS bowl game. I dont think we have a shot against michigan or ohio st.
 
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dankus said:
If you are playing the what-if game, you might as well just start with that first INT in the Michigan game that was tipped by Carlson.
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beat me to it... that one hurts as much as the late one... equally bad plays that shouldn't have happened
 
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The entire game was an ass whipping. No one play caused them to lose and to lose by a wide margin.

If that INT for a touchdown killed their spirits, they don't deserve a title shot in the first place.
 
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jiggafini19 said:
The entire game was an ass whipping. No one play caused them to lose and to lose by a wide margin.
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The score was an asswhipping but without the 5 turnovers the game would have been like the OSU - UM game.
 
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TENNESSEE-IRISH said:
that one sucked
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five turnovers cost us the game. Plus three extra drives in Notre Dame territory, and spotting them 14 points (returns off turnovers). That game was extremely, extremely painful and demoralizing. ND would've had a good chance to win without those turnovers. This is a team that doesn't turn it over that much, so to watch it happen was shocking. I think we erase that if we can find a way to beat SC by 2 TD's on their homefield. Then again, they'll just say USC is overrated and young on both sides of the ball. This ND bias is real. It's a shame. I've never seen it like this before or on this level. Arkansas beats a horrible Miss. St by 2 TD's and they jump us in the human polls. That's the same team that got drilled 50-14 by SC. I don't care how tough the conference appears to be. It must not be that tough. The potential conference champion took a 36 point L.
 
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