(Confused? Check out the first Five Factors review from Texas or Bill Connelly's Five Factors - the most important stats that determine who wins a college football game)
The only garbage possession not counted was the last Wake Forest possession - this is a subjective decision, but was the only real inflection point where style of play and personnel really changed.
Explosiveness
| Plays | Yards | YPP | |
| Notre Dame | 49 | 282 | 5. |