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Notre Dame Fighting Irish (3-2) vs. Stanford Cardinal (3-1)
The Date and Time: Saturday, Oct. 9, 2004 at 1:30 p.m. EST.
The Site: Notre Dame Stadium (80,795/Natural Grass) in Notre Dame, Ind.
The Tickets: They're all sold -- with this being the 177th consecutive sellout at Notre Dame Stadium (the first 130 coming at the old 59,075 capacity). The Stanford game marks the 225th home sellout in the last 226 games (dating back to 1964). It also is the 167th sellout in the last 191 Irish games and the 31st in the last 32 games involving Notre Dame, dating back to the end of the 2001 season (only last year's game at Stanford was not a sellout).
The TV Plans: NBC national telecast with Tom Hammond (play-by-play), Pat Haden (analysis), Lewis Johnson (sideline), David Gibson (producer) and John Gonzalez (director).
The Radio Plans: For the 37th consecutive season, all Notre Dame football games are broadcast on more than 300 stations in all 50 states by Westwood One with Tony Roberts (play-by-play), former Irish running back Allen Pinkett (analysis), Larry Michael (pregame/halftime) and Al Smith (producer). A live broadcast from the Notre Dame student station, WVFI, also is available via the Notre Dame athletics web site at www.und.com. All Notre Dame football games may be heard in South Bend on U93-FM (92.9) with pre- and post-game analysis featuring Sean Stires, Shawn Lewallen, Jack Nolan, Mirko Jurkovic, Reggie Brooks and Vince DeDario. All Irish games also are carried live in the Chicago market on ESPN Radio 1000.
Real-Time Stats: Live in-game statistics, courtesy of College Sports Online's GameTracker, will be made available for the Stanford game, via the Notre Dame (www.und.com) and Stanford (www.gostanford.com) athletics web sites.
Web Sites: Notre Dame (www.und.com), Stanford (www.gostanford.com).
IRISH WRAP UP THREE-GAME HOMESTAND SATURDAY AGAINST STANFORD
Notre Dame (3-2) will be looking to bounce back from a loss to Purdue when it plays host to a resurgent 3-1 Stanford team Saturday at 1:30 p.m. (EST) at Notre Dame Stadium. The contest will be televised nationally by NBC, marking the 142nd consecutive Irish football game to be broadcast across the country by one of the four major networks (NBC, ABC, CBS or ESPN).
Notre Dame is coming off a 41-16 defeat at the hands of (then) 15th-ranked Purdue last Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium. Sophomore quarterback Brady Quinn had another impressive outing in the defeat, setting a Stadium record by passing for 432 yards while completing 26 of 46 tosses against the Boilermakers. Junior tight end Anthony Fasano also etched his name into the Notre Dame record books, setting a new Irish standard for receiving yards by a tight end with 155 yards on eight receptions. Fasano and junior wide receiver Rhema McKnight (seven catches for 113 yards) both surpassed 100 yards receiving to give Notre Dame two 100-yard receivers in the same game for the first time since 1977.
Stanford has been impressive thus far this season. The Cardinal come in with only a loss to top-ranked USC (31-28) marring an otherwise perfect ledger through four games. The Stanford offense enters this game averaging 33.8 points per game and has not been held under 27 points thus far this season. The Cardinal come to South Bend off a 27-13 victory over Washington.
Sophomore quarterback Trent Edwards ranks 39th in the NCAA in pass efficiency (131.65) and is 30th nationally in total offense (232 yards per game). Junior running back J.R. Lemon has rushed for 258 yards over the last two games, including a 162-yard outing last Saturday against Washington, Stanford's best performance by a running back in 10 years. Lemon is averaging 6.9 yards per carry this season.
Senior free safety Oshiomogho Atogwe is Stanford's top playmaker on defense. The team's leading tackler the last two seasons, Atogwe currently has 24 stops (second on the team) with one interception, two forced fumbles, one pass break-up and two tackles for loss.
NOTRE DAME-STANFORD SERIES NOTES
• Saturday's game marks the 19th meeting between Notre Dame and Stanford. The Irish lead the series 12-6, including a 7-2 advantage when playing host to the Cardinal at Notre Dame Stadium.
• The two teams have met every year since 1988, with the exception of the 1995 and 1996 seasons.
• This year's matchup will mark only the third time in the last 16 series meetings that neither Notre Dame nor Stanford is ranked at kickoff.
• After a five-game stretch from 1989-93 in which the visiting team won every game, the home team won each of the next seven games (1994-2002) before the Irish put a stop to that trend with a 57-7 victory last year at Stanford Stadium.
• Notre Dame has won six of the last nine games in the series by an average margin of 24.2 points per game. In the two matchups since Tyrone Willingham became the Irish head coach, Notre Dame has won by a combined score of 88-14.
• The Irish defense has played a pivotal role in the series, holding the Cardinal to an average of 18.7 points per game, including seven games where Stanford scored 14 points or less. Meanwhile, Notre Dame has averaged 30.2 points per game and has topped the 30-point mark nine times in the series (including six of the last nine meetings).
IF NOTRE DAME WINS ...
• Notre Dame will earn its 800th all-time victory, joining Michigan as the only two NCAA Division I-A schools ever to reach that milestone.
• The Irish will claim their third consecutive victory over Stanford, matching their longest winning streak in the series (1964, 1988-89).
• Notre Dame will pick up its fifth consecutive home win over Stanford and its eighth in 10 all-time meetings with the Cardinal at Notre Dame Stadium.
• The Irish will pick up their ninth home victory in the past 10 meetings with a Pac-10 Conference team since 1998 (only loss was to USC last season).
• Notre Dame will improve to 72-36-6 (.658) all-time against Pac-10 teams, including a 42-13-1 (.759) mark at Notre Dame Stadium.
• Irish head coach Tyrone Willingham will remain undefeated in three career games against Stanford, the school he coached for seven seasons.
• Notre Dame will retain possession of the Legends Trophy for the third consecutive year, and move to 2-1 this season in "trophy games" -- the Irish defeated Michigan State (Megaphone Trophy), but lost to Purdue (the Shillelagh Trophy).
IF STANFORD WINS ...
• Stanford will register just its third victory ever at Notre Dame Stadium and its first since Oct. 3, 1992, when the 19th-ranked Cardinal ousted the No. 7 Irish, 33-16.
• Stanford will be just the second Pac-10 Conference team to win at Notre Dame Stadium since 1998, a span of 10 games.
NOTRE DAME-STANFORD SERIES HISTORY
• Notre Dame leads the all-time series versus Stanford (12-6), including a 7-2 edge when the scene shifts to Notre Dame Stadium.
• Notre Dame and Stanford met for the first time in the 1925 Rose Bowl, with the famed Four Horsemen backfield leading Notre Dame to a 27-10 win and the school's first national championship that season.
• The series then included one game in the 1940s and two in the '60s. This year's game will represent the 15th meeting between the schools in the last 17 years (no games in '95 or '96).
• This year's contest marks only the third time in the last 16 series games that neither of the teams will have been ranked in the Associated Press poll. The 1999 matchup (a 40-37 Stanford win) and 2003 game (a 57-7 Irish victory) were the only other times since 1963 that both teams were unranked at kickoff.
• The winner of the Notre Dame-Stanford series receives the Legends Trophy, a combination of Irish crystal and California redwood. The trophy was presented for the first time in 1989 by the Notre Dame Club of the San Francisco Bay Area. Notre Dame has won eight of 13 games since the Legends Trophy was first introduced.
The Date and Time: Saturday, Oct. 9, 2004 at 1:30 p.m. EST.
The Site: Notre Dame Stadium (80,795/Natural Grass) in Notre Dame, Ind.
The Tickets: They're all sold -- with this being the 177th consecutive sellout at Notre Dame Stadium (the first 130 coming at the old 59,075 capacity). The Stanford game marks the 225th home sellout in the last 226 games (dating back to 1964). It also is the 167th sellout in the last 191 Irish games and the 31st in the last 32 games involving Notre Dame, dating back to the end of the 2001 season (only last year's game at Stanford was not a sellout).
The TV Plans: NBC national telecast with Tom Hammond (play-by-play), Pat Haden (analysis), Lewis Johnson (sideline), David Gibson (producer) and John Gonzalez (director).
The Radio Plans: For the 37th consecutive season, all Notre Dame football games are broadcast on more than 300 stations in all 50 states by Westwood One with Tony Roberts (play-by-play), former Irish running back Allen Pinkett (analysis), Larry Michael (pregame/halftime) and Al Smith (producer). A live broadcast from the Notre Dame student station, WVFI, also is available via the Notre Dame athletics web site at www.und.com. All Notre Dame football games may be heard in South Bend on U93-FM (92.9) with pre- and post-game analysis featuring Sean Stires, Shawn Lewallen, Jack Nolan, Mirko Jurkovic, Reggie Brooks and Vince DeDario. All Irish games also are carried live in the Chicago market on ESPN Radio 1000.
Real-Time Stats: Live in-game statistics, courtesy of College Sports Online's GameTracker, will be made available for the Stanford game, via the Notre Dame (www.und.com) and Stanford (www.gostanford.com) athletics web sites.
Web Sites: Notre Dame (www.und.com), Stanford (www.gostanford.com).
IRISH WRAP UP THREE-GAME HOMESTAND SATURDAY AGAINST STANFORD
Notre Dame (3-2) will be looking to bounce back from a loss to Purdue when it plays host to a resurgent 3-1 Stanford team Saturday at 1:30 p.m. (EST) at Notre Dame Stadium. The contest will be televised nationally by NBC, marking the 142nd consecutive Irish football game to be broadcast across the country by one of the four major networks (NBC, ABC, CBS or ESPN).
Notre Dame is coming off a 41-16 defeat at the hands of (then) 15th-ranked Purdue last Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium. Sophomore quarterback Brady Quinn had another impressive outing in the defeat, setting a Stadium record by passing for 432 yards while completing 26 of 46 tosses against the Boilermakers. Junior tight end Anthony Fasano also etched his name into the Notre Dame record books, setting a new Irish standard for receiving yards by a tight end with 155 yards on eight receptions. Fasano and junior wide receiver Rhema McKnight (seven catches for 113 yards) both surpassed 100 yards receiving to give Notre Dame two 100-yard receivers in the same game for the first time since 1977.
Stanford has been impressive thus far this season. The Cardinal come in with only a loss to top-ranked USC (31-28) marring an otherwise perfect ledger through four games. The Stanford offense enters this game averaging 33.8 points per game and has not been held under 27 points thus far this season. The Cardinal come to South Bend off a 27-13 victory over Washington.
Sophomore quarterback Trent Edwards ranks 39th in the NCAA in pass efficiency (131.65) and is 30th nationally in total offense (232 yards per game). Junior running back J.R. Lemon has rushed for 258 yards over the last two games, including a 162-yard outing last Saturday against Washington, Stanford's best performance by a running back in 10 years. Lemon is averaging 6.9 yards per carry this season.
Senior free safety Oshiomogho Atogwe is Stanford's top playmaker on defense. The team's leading tackler the last two seasons, Atogwe currently has 24 stops (second on the team) with one interception, two forced fumbles, one pass break-up and two tackles for loss.
NOTRE DAME-STANFORD SERIES NOTES
• Saturday's game marks the 19th meeting between Notre Dame and Stanford. The Irish lead the series 12-6, including a 7-2 advantage when playing host to the Cardinal at Notre Dame Stadium.
• The two teams have met every year since 1988, with the exception of the 1995 and 1996 seasons.
• This year's matchup will mark only the third time in the last 16 series meetings that neither Notre Dame nor Stanford is ranked at kickoff.
• After a five-game stretch from 1989-93 in which the visiting team won every game, the home team won each of the next seven games (1994-2002) before the Irish put a stop to that trend with a 57-7 victory last year at Stanford Stadium.
• Notre Dame has won six of the last nine games in the series by an average margin of 24.2 points per game. In the two matchups since Tyrone Willingham became the Irish head coach, Notre Dame has won by a combined score of 88-14.
• The Irish defense has played a pivotal role in the series, holding the Cardinal to an average of 18.7 points per game, including seven games where Stanford scored 14 points or less. Meanwhile, Notre Dame has averaged 30.2 points per game and has topped the 30-point mark nine times in the series (including six of the last nine meetings).
IF NOTRE DAME WINS ...
• Notre Dame will earn its 800th all-time victory, joining Michigan as the only two NCAA Division I-A schools ever to reach that milestone.
• The Irish will claim their third consecutive victory over Stanford, matching their longest winning streak in the series (1964, 1988-89).
• Notre Dame will pick up its fifth consecutive home win over Stanford and its eighth in 10 all-time meetings with the Cardinal at Notre Dame Stadium.
• The Irish will pick up their ninth home victory in the past 10 meetings with a Pac-10 Conference team since 1998 (only loss was to USC last season).
• Notre Dame will improve to 72-36-6 (.658) all-time against Pac-10 teams, including a 42-13-1 (.759) mark at Notre Dame Stadium.
• Irish head coach Tyrone Willingham will remain undefeated in three career games against Stanford, the school he coached for seven seasons.
• Notre Dame will retain possession of the Legends Trophy for the third consecutive year, and move to 2-1 this season in "trophy games" -- the Irish defeated Michigan State (Megaphone Trophy), but lost to Purdue (the Shillelagh Trophy).
IF STANFORD WINS ...
• Stanford will register just its third victory ever at Notre Dame Stadium and its first since Oct. 3, 1992, when the 19th-ranked Cardinal ousted the No. 7 Irish, 33-16.
• Stanford will be just the second Pac-10 Conference team to win at Notre Dame Stadium since 1998, a span of 10 games.
NOTRE DAME-STANFORD SERIES HISTORY
• Notre Dame leads the all-time series versus Stanford (12-6), including a 7-2 edge when the scene shifts to Notre Dame Stadium.
• Notre Dame and Stanford met for the first time in the 1925 Rose Bowl, with the famed Four Horsemen backfield leading Notre Dame to a 27-10 win and the school's first national championship that season.
• The series then included one game in the 1940s and two in the '60s. This year's game will represent the 15th meeting between the schools in the last 17 years (no games in '95 or '96).
• This year's contest marks only the third time in the last 16 series games that neither of the teams will have been ranked in the Associated Press poll. The 1999 matchup (a 40-37 Stanford win) and 2003 game (a 57-7 Irish victory) were the only other times since 1963 that both teams were unranked at kickoff.
• The winner of the Notre Dame-Stanford series receives the Legends Trophy, a combination of Irish crystal and California redwood. The trophy was presented for the first time in 1989 by the Notre Dame Club of the San Francisco Bay Area. Notre Dame has won eight of 13 games since the Legends Trophy was first introduced.
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