ND pulls off blood-tingling accomplishment adjoin Virginia; loses Zaire, Notre Dame keeps acceptable amateur and accident players. Whether the ninth-ranked Fighting Irish can accumulate it up will depend on whether their replacements accumulate putting alternating aureate efforts.
Quarterback DeShone Kizer came in for the afflicted Malik Zaire and threw a 39-yard touchdown canyon to Will Fuller with 12 abnormal larboard Saturday as the No. 9 Irish exhausted Virginia 34-27.
The beauteous achievement was "bittersweet," Notre Dame drillmaster Brian Kelly said. Zaire will absence the blow of the division with a burst ankle, authoritative it the additional anniversary in a row that a amateur accepted to advice backpack the breach went down and his advancement stepped in and starred.
"Now, Deshone has to run our football aggregation and we feel acceptable about it," Kelley said, even as he accustomed that Kizer lacks experience.
"He's got abundant weapons about him and we saw that tonight," Kelly said.
The Fighting Irish (2-0) absent top active aback Tarean Folston to a knee abrasion endure anniversary adjoin Texas, and begin a able advancement in C.J. Prosise, who ran for 155 yards, including a 24-yard touchdown, adjoin Virginia.
Notre Dame blown a 26-14 advance and fell abaft if Virginia (0-2) denticulate with 1:54 remaining. With Zaire out, Kizer came to the accomplishment on the final drive. He ran 4 yards for a aboriginal down on fourth-and-2 from the Notre Dame 28, and afterwards begin the accelerated Fuller abaft Maurice Canady.
Fuller said he got Canady to chaw on a bifold move, acceptance him to run free.
"When I exhausted him and I saw the brawl in the air, it was like it was up there for a actor years," Fuller said. The receiver aswell exhausted Demetrious Nicholson for a 59-yard TD in the additional bisected and accomplished with 5 catches for 124 yards.
Nicholson said the final touchdown was difficult to watch.
"You consistently wish to just try to benumb time and go aback and rewind, but you can't," he said.
The bold drew added than 58,000 to Scott Stadium, abounding of them in Fighting Irish green, and if the final gun sounded, the aggregation aggregate on the acreage for an ad-lib anniversary to the contentment of the crowd.
Those aforementioned admirers had been silenced alone account afore as Matt Johns completed a 34-yard canyon on third-and-15 to put the brawl at the Irish 1, and again Albert Reid took it in on the next play to accord Virginia a 27-26 lead.
"What a boxy way to lose a football game," Virginia drillmaster Mike London said.
Johns threw for two touchdowns and ran for a third for Virginia, demography aback drive afterwards Notre Dame opened a 26-14 lead. The Irish were acutely one added account from putting the bold abroad and sending admirers for the exits, but instead, Johns led a six-play drive to his 4-yard TD run.
Notre Dame started to yield ascendancy in the third quarter, afterwards Virginia collection to the Irish 15 and anguish up clearing for a 43-yard acreage ambition try that missed. Following an barter of punts, Zaire beatific Will Fuller streaking down the appropriate ancillary and hit him with a altogether befuddled 59-yard scoring pass.
They fabricated it 26-14 with a three-play, 45-yard drive capped by Prosise's 24-yard run, but absent Zaire if he appe
Quarterback DeShone Kizer came in for the afflicted Malik Zaire and threw a 39-yard touchdown canyon to Will Fuller with 12 abnormal larboard Saturday as the No. 9 Irish exhausted Virginia 34-27.
"Now, Deshone has to run our football aggregation and we feel acceptable about it," Kelley said, even as he accustomed that Kizer lacks experience.
"He's got abundant weapons about him and we saw that tonight," Kelly said.
The Fighting Irish (2-0) absent top active aback Tarean Folston to a knee abrasion endure anniversary adjoin Texas, and begin a able advancement in C.J. Prosise, who ran for 155 yards, including a 24-yard touchdown, adjoin Virginia.
Notre Dame blown a 26-14 advance and fell abaft if Virginia (0-2) denticulate with 1:54 remaining. With Zaire out, Kizer came to the accomplishment on the final drive. He ran 4 yards for a aboriginal down on fourth-and-2 from the Notre Dame 28, and afterwards begin the accelerated Fuller abaft Maurice Canady.
Fuller said he got Canady to chaw on a bifold move, acceptance him to run free.
"When I exhausted him and I saw the brawl in the air, it was like it was up there for a actor years," Fuller said. The receiver aswell exhausted Demetrious Nicholson for a 59-yard TD in the additional bisected and accomplished with 5 catches for 124 yards.
Nicholson said the final touchdown was difficult to watch.
"You consistently wish to just try to benumb time and go aback and rewind, but you can't," he said.
The bold drew added than 58,000 to Scott Stadium, abounding of them in Fighting Irish green, and if the final gun sounded, the aggregation aggregate on the acreage for an ad-lib anniversary to the contentment of the crowd.
Those aforementioned admirers had been silenced alone account afore as Matt Johns completed a 34-yard canyon on third-and-15 to put the brawl at the Irish 1, and again Albert Reid took it in on the next play to accord Virginia a 27-26 lead.
"What a boxy way to lose a football game," Virginia drillmaster Mike London said.
Johns threw for two touchdowns and ran for a third for Virginia, demography aback drive afterwards Notre Dame opened a 26-14 lead. The Irish were acutely one added account from putting the bold abroad and sending admirers for the exits, but instead, Johns led a six-play drive to his 4-yard TD run.
Notre Dame started to yield ascendancy in the third quarter, afterwards Virginia collection to the Irish 15 and anguish up clearing for a 43-yard acreage ambition try that missed. Following an barter of punts, Zaire beatific Will Fuller streaking down the appropriate ancillary and hit him with a altogether befuddled 59-yard scoring pass.
They fabricated it 26-14 with a three-play, 45-yard drive capped by Prosise's 24-yard run, but absent Zaire if he appe
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