Notre Dame finally gave up a touchdown on Saturday night, but it wasn’t nearly enough for the Stanford cardinal to make it a game, and the Irish chopped the trees down, 45-14.
For all intents and purposes, the game was over before halftime. Notre Dame’s defense was suffocating for most of the game, and Stanford barely cracked 46 yards after two quarters.
Notre Dame started the scoring with a 16 yard touchdown pass from Jack coan to a much faster looking Braden Lenzy to cap a 5 play 75 yard drive. On Notre Dame’s next possession, tight end George Takacs finally found the endzone for the first time in a couple of years to put the Irish up 14-0 less than a minute into the second quarter.