Notre Dame safety Alohi Gilman made 18 tackles in a 30-3 loss to Clemson Mike Berardino, IndyStar
ARLINGTON, Texas – Even as a phalanx of college football pundits, along with much of the amateur Twitterverse, mocked third-ranked Notre Dame for its latest postseason beatdown on the national stage, the Irish themselves were amazingly defiant.
A few plays here or they, they kept saying after Saturday’s 30-3 loss to No. 2 Clemson in the Cotton Bowl semifinal, and things might have been different.
Maybe if Julian Love hadn’t missed the second quarter due to a head injury that plunged him into temporary concussion protocol.