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OSUBasketballJunkie
Never Forget 31-0
Dispatch
NO. 2 NOTRE DAME 14 GEORGIA TECH 10
Defense helps Irish avoid upset
Notre Dame falls behind 10-0; Quinn, Walker ignite rally
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Paul Newberry
ASSOCIATED PRESS
RIC FELD ASSOCIATED PRESS Notre Dame’s Chinedum Ndukwe (18) separates Georgia Tech receiver Calvin Johnson from the ball.
ATLANTA — Notre Dame found itself in a defensive struggle, which didn’t happen very often last season.
The Fighting Irish knew how to handle it.
Brady Quinn and hometown favorite Darius Walker each ran for a touchdown last night as No. 2 Notre Dame, with its highest preseason ranking since 1994, rallied for a 14-10 victory over Georgia Tech.
The Fighting Irish fell behind 10-0 in the season opener and were on the verge of going scoreless in the first half for the first time in nearly two years. But Quinn ran it in from the 5 on a gutsy call by coach Charlie Weis with just 11 seconds remaining.
Then, taking advantage of a personal foul against the Yellow Jackets, Walker raced to the corner for a 13-yard touchdown with 6 1 /2 minutes to go in the third quarter.
The offense did a good job of holding onto the ball and the defense did the rest, limiting Georgia Tech to 259 yards.
"I give the game to the defense," Walker said. "They did a great job for us."
Quinn completed 23 of 38 passes for 246 yards and converted a fourth-and-1 sneak near midfield with 1:07 remaining that sealed the victory.
"We knew it would be a defensive fight in a hostile environment," Quinn, of Dublin, said. "I think this game would have been a lot more wide open if I had done a better job."
Georgia Tech’s star receiver, Calvin Johnson, came up with seven catches for 111 yards and his team’s lone TD.
Notre Dame scored the winning touchdown after a personal foul on Philip Wheeler kept the drive going.
On third-and-10 at the Georgia Tech 18, Quinn couldn’t find anyone open, so he took off running. He was heading out of bounds well short of the first down when Wheeler came up and delivered a helmet-to-helmet hit while the quarterback was still in bounds.
Quinn went flying and so did the penalty flag that gave Notre Dame first-and-goal. Georgia Tech coach Chan Gailey screamed at referee Dan Capron, who was nearly hit by a water bottle that came flying from the stands as he signaled the penalty. "It was a clean hit," Georgia Tech cornerback Kenny Scott said. "But that comes with the territory. These were Big Ten officials and we’re playing Notre Dame."
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Buckin Crazy
All-American
Anyone notice how many times they called ND the number 1 team in the country last night?
Also man, Quinn threw like 85% screen passes, a lot of passes he just lobbed up there and had Samarzja make great adjustments and great catches. Yet go to espns college page and they have an article that make it feel as if Brady Quinn is jesus and single handadly beat GT. It is sickning.
Also man, Quinn threw like 85% screen passes, a lot of passes he just lobbed up there and had Samarzja make great adjustments and great catches. Yet go to espns college page and they have an article that make it feel as if Brady Quinn is jesus and single handadly beat GT. It is sickning.
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ulukinatme
Old Skool
Wow...I think you need to look at the last decade of college football. Corso is 99% of the time anti-ND, Mark May is usually in the same boat with him. Its kinda shocking why they both had such a change of heart this season, but then again the season is early. I imagine when we play USC again, Corso will go with them.
Why so many sour Buck fans? Its not like you lost the Fiesta Bowl to ND, I'll never understand it. Nothing wrong with preferring one team to lose to another, but theres an awful lot of undeserved hate out there. I'll say no more.
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smith10ginn7
Junior
True but I thought they could have won that game. What was the offensive coordinator thinking when they had 1st and 10 at like the the 12 yard line in the 2nd quarter. They didn't throw the ball to Calvin Johnson once, and then they run to get to the into the middle of the field for a FG on 3rd down. That was too conservative, they could have started to run away with it if they took a 14-0 lead there. Anyway, I dont think Joe Pa will make mistake like that net week lol.
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crazybuckfan40
Head Coach
Notre Dame has a lot of holes on this team, which can be covered up at times with places where they are very good, but they have a tough road over the next couple weeks and I see them going down at least once and hopefully twice to PSU and scUM.
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lvbuckeye
Silver Surfer
if you heard him on College Gameday Final, you would have thought that the Irish won by 40 points, not the 4 that they did... consider yourselves lucky that the GT staff decided that it would be a good idea to NOT throw the ball to the best player on the field for the entire second half; otherwise you're looking at an 0-1 start...
i think that people get disgusted by all the love because it is clearly evident to anyone who actually knows about the game of football, that ND is pretty good, but no where near elite... it's just that the pendulum never swings back the other way... a prime example is that ND jumped 10 spots in the polls last year, when it was totally unwarranted, especially in the light of the fact that they made that jump based on beating up two HORRIBLE teams... the Irish didn't deserve to be on the same field as Ohio State last year, and it showed... you should be grateful for the 'mid major exception' which got Utah into a BCS game in '04 because that's what got you to the Fiesta in '05... Oregon was a MUCH more deserving team, as was Auburn...
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Good, don't...no one cares about ND ass-kissers around here anyway.
It's hilarious when ND people try to play themselves off as victims of the evil media...despite the fact they get more hype in one week when they are 3-4 and playing Army than any other team gets in an entire season.
You see undeserved hate...everyone else in the world see undeserved hype. Though hell, I guess you are moving up in the world...you didn't have to act like "almost beating" Georgia Tech is better than actually beating anyone else, I suppose.
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ulukinatme
Old Skool
Hey, a rep from your boards invited the posters at NDFans to come over here before the bowl game last year, and for the most part things have been pretty civil here. You'd think a little smattering of opposition would be good to spark healthy debate now and then. Theres plenty of long time posters like NDChief that have contributed to the board and still been very respectable.
We can't help theres all this hype, we didn't go to the media and say "Hey, we're going to be the greatest anyone's seen in the last decade, make sure everyone hears it 24/7." We had a decent season last year at 9-3 and thats it, and many fans feel that 9-3 isn't good enough for ND. Notre Dame hasn't had a team in 13 years, and being on TV every home game doesn't help hide that fact. Now that the team is playing better than any of those last 13 seasons, the media saw it and started it. A lot of the fans buy into it, but I won't be satisfied until we win the big one again.
As far as OSU/ND in the Fiesta Bowl, I'm not sure Oregon would have been a better opponent for the Buckeyes. They lost 45-13 against a USC team we took to the final seconds of the 4th quarter. While we gave up a nasty 650+ yards of offense, there was only 1 score difference between OSU and ND until the final minutes when Pittman's great TD run sealed the game. Of course, our defense wasn't in the same league as yours by any stretch of the imagination, but the score was closer than the offensive production showed. I imagine if we'd play again this year, we'd have a much more exciting game to watch.
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ulukinatme
Old Skool
Heres some shots of the helmet to helmet call on Quinn. You have to think, at game speed, the ref made a pretty good call:
http://www.uhnd.com/board/forum.cgi?message&383985
In the 3rd imagine, you see the contact and Quinn's head moves down and to the left. I'm not sure the forearm actually hits, but who cares, he definitly wasn't straight tackling him low. I'd like to see if anyone can reproduce the hit to Ball though, because we couldn't see it well on the replays.
http://www.uhnd.com/board/forum.cgi?message&383985
In the 3rd imagine, you see the contact and Quinn's head moves down and to the left. I'm not sure the forearm actually hits, but who cares, he definitly wasn't straight tackling him low. I'd like to see if anyone can reproduce the hit to Ball though, because we couldn't see it well on the replays.
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cincibuck
You kids stay off my lawn!
Where would you like to start on the history lesson?
Could it be that Notre Dame is the most hyped team in football?
Could it be all the Irish wannabees?
Could it be Heisman trophy decision like the one that crowned Paul Hornung from a very mediocre ND team?
Could it be the understanding that if OSU and Notre Dame were to go undefeated in the same year, ND would get the better bowl bid?
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Well gee, still wondering? Hey, I thought you said you weren't going to say anything else? Then again, ND fans have never been able to keep their mouths shut, even when they say they're going to...thanks for taking the bait and proving my point.
We don't have any problem with opposition, or opposing posters...we still have Washington State fans here we welcome back with open arms, and we played them several years ago. We have fans from NIU and Texas we hope stay. We're always glad to see Oklahoma State fans again. The problem we have is with people who come here to whine because everyone in the free world doesn't bow down to ND "almost beating" quality teams, as if that somehow makes them as good as teams who actually win bowl games and rivalry games. Someone thinks they didn't look good against Georgia Tech? It's Notre Dame bashing. Someone doesn't think they're worth all the media attention? It's jealousy. Someone thinks they're ranked too high? It's because we aren't as smart as those people from that bastion of academic supremacy. I'm sick and tired of Notre Dame fans who get their panties in a bunch because fans from other teams don't annoint them the greatest program of all-time, and the center of the college football universe, with a coach we'd all gladly trade our coach for in a second, because after all, with a month to prepare, he could beat the 85 Bears with a Class AAA HS team.
Clear enough now?
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