A decade later, the celebration has been greatly exaggerated. Retellings claim Notre Dame fans stormed the field after the Irish upset No. 15 Utah back in 2010. That 28-3 victory was, after all, Notre Dame’s first win against an AP top-25 team in its last 12 tries. It came via the arm of a certain freshman quarterback and halted a skid in Brian Kelly’s first Irish season.
That was certainly enough to warrant a raucous rushing, right? Claiming such is only logical, right?
It’s not what happened. The part about the first-time starting quarterback was true, and it led to a four-game winning streak to cap Kelly’s debut.