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Notre Dame Football Analytics Driven Recaps: Virginia Tech Hokies

After a crushing loss against Michigan, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish returned home to face the Virginia Tech Hokies in their first game without any CFP aspirations. The Irish had a few uncharacteristic offensive turnovers and kept the Hokies in a game they had no business being in. However, despite all of the poor play in the second half, Ian Book led an incredible two minute drill giving the Irish a win and their most exciting finish in recent memory. As always, here is a link to a primer on the statistics that will be used in this article, and we will start with a particularly wild edition of the win probability chart.