Consider the echoes woken. Consider the lesson from N.C. State learned.
Notre Dame and coach Brian Kelly learned the hard way in a loss to N.C. State last year: You have to run to win.
No. 9 Notre Dame did just that in a 35-14 win over No. 14 N.C. State on Saturday in a game that will propel the Fighting Irish into the College Football Playoff conversation.
Running back Josh Adams ran for 202 yards and a touchdown to set Notre Dame (7-1) up for a postseason run in November.
For N.C. State (6-2), it’s the end of a six-game winning streak and a step back after spending the better part of the last two months climbing up in the national polls.