Notre Dame def. Maryland , 45-21

• karen lotz

  

  Great drive. I like the fast tempo offense.
• Hamp89

  Damn are we going to miss #3 next year.
• Hamp89

  karen lotz;969962 wrote:Great drive. I like the fast tempo offense.

  
  Me too. Cierre looked exhausted. Lol
• karen lotz

  

  Could have done without the Ty Willingham reference.
• grodt

  

  Lo Wood will never have an easier touchdown in his life.
  
  Great game all around for the Irish so far.
• karen lotz

  

  Good for Lo. Had a rough play against SC and is gonna have to play big next year.
• WebFire

  If the gold color on ND's pants and jersey matched the helmets, they would have one of the best alt uni's in college football.
• killer_ewok

  

  Cierre laid somebody out.
• karen lotz

  

  Cierre just decleated dude on that TD. Eifert.
• karen lotz

  

  killer_ewok;970128 wrote:Cierre laid somebody out.

  
  Get out of my mind
• grodt

  

  What a block by Wood.
• killer_ewok

  

  Lotz-LOL
  
  45-21 win for the Irish.
  
  SHOULD be 8-3 after the BC game next week. Then......@ Stanford.
• Hamp89

  Good looking win. This team is really starting to come together and developing some confidence and swagger. It's slowly building that attitude BK is looking for.
• Tobias Fünke

  

  Notre Dame sucks, didn't you know?
• Crimson streak

  

  After tonight I'm really feeling good about that Stanford game. Oregon really exposed them. Maybe just maybe be able to sneak into a bcs bowl
• sherm03

  

  Great win tonight. I hope ND beats the living shit out of BC next week. And then have a ton of confidence going into the Stanford game.
• athlete37

  

  If Stanford thought it had trouble stopping McNeil/Woods or Thomas/James, wait till it sees Gray/Wood/Floyd/Eifert
• vball10set

  athlete37;970389 wrote:If Stanford thought it had trouble stopping McNeil/Woods or Thomas/James, wait till it sees Gray/Wood/Floyd/Eifert

  excellent win for the Irish last night, and their running game looked very good, but comparing Thomas/James to Gray/Wood? hmmmm
• Hamp89

  vball10set;970452 wrote:excellent win for the Irish last night, and their running game looked very good, but comparing Thomas/James to Gray/Wood? hmmmm

  
  Agreed the rb's probably aren't comparable, but he was throwing the combo of Floyd and Eifert along with Wood and Gray. When ND is "on", they have a very tough set of skilled players to defend. Eifert has quietly become one of the better TE's in the country.
  
  Maryland wasn't a tough opponent, but in the past games like this are one's that ND always played down to and even found a way to lose way too often. It's nice to see them play with confidence and bury the inferior opponents (Purdue, Air Force, Navy, and Maryland). It's a huge step in the right direction. Instilling a winning confidence has been BK's biggest hurdle with this team and you can tell it is building.
• vball10set

  Hamp89;970514 wrote:Agreed the rb's probably aren't comparable, but he was throwing the combo of Floyd and Eifert along with Wood and Gray. When ND is "on", they have a very tough set of skilled players to defend. Eifert has quietly become one of the better TE's in the country.
  
  Maryland wasn't a tough opponent, but in the past games like this are one's that ND always played down to and even found a way to lose way too often. It's nice to see them play with confidence and bury the inferior opponents (Purdue, Air Force, Navy, and Maryland). It's a huge step in the right direction. Instilling a winning confidence has been BK's biggest hurdle with this team and you can tell it is building.

  good post, and you're right---BK has these kids believing they should, and can, win these games, and Floyd will definitely be the X factor in their game against Stanford...btw, is that game in SB?
• sherm03

  

  It's @ Stanford.
• Hamp89

  With the win, ND breaks in at #25 in the coaches poll this week and #24 in AP.
• Tobias Fünke

  

  vball10set;970452 wrote:excellent win for the Irish last night, and their running game looked very good, but comparing Thomas/James to Gray/Wood? hmmmm

  Gray and Wood will both be playing in the NFL, in my opinion. They are one of the best RB duos in the country.
• athlete37

  

  Wood- 907 yards at 5.6 yards per carry and 9 TD's. Gray- 730 yards at 7.1 ypc and 11 TD's. Both should be top 3-4 round draft picks and if you're trying to stop both at a change of pace it's going to be tough. I watched the game with a recent OSU lineman who said if Tressel was coaching ND they'd win the National Championship this year.... Yes I compared them to Oregon...
• athlete37

  

  Nice work Tobias, I didn't see your post til after I sent mine