Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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22 SEPT. 24, 2022 BLUE & GOLD ILLUSTRATED plunge. Notre Dame capped an impres- sive nine-play, 60-yard drive with the score. Feature Performer: Estime ran 6 times for 30 yards on the scoring drive. The Irish ran the same play to Estime four times in a row to cap the drive. Stats: Notre Dame outgained Cal 92-57 in total yards. Five of the Irish's seven first downs came on the ground. Notre Dame did not punt in the third quarter. Items: Isaiah Foskey and Jayson Ademilola were injured for the Irish at various points during a Cal touchdown drive ... Notre Dame stuck to the run and faced a third-and-5 from the Cal 29 when the quarter finished. FOURTH QUARTER NOTRE DAME 24, CALIFORNIA 17 Top Moment: A Hail Mary from Cal bounced around a few too many times for comfort from an Irish perspective before finally falling the ground with 0:00 on the clock; it took until the very last play of the game for Notre Dame to earn its first victory of the season. Feature Performer: Pyne com- pleted 3 passes in a row for 48 yards to give Notre Dame the lead with 9:16 left. He connected with Mayer from 6 yards out to give the Irish a lead they would not relinquish. Stats: Notre Dame outscored Cal 10-0 and outgained the Bears 87-55 in total yards. Cal went 0 of 5 on third down. Notre Dame recorded 4 of its 6 sacks in the fourth quarter. Items: Grupe tied the game at 17-17 with a 47-yard make with 14:48 left in the quarter … Foskey recorded an 8-yard sack on fourth down that gave Notre Dame the ball back with 6:30 left in the game … The Irish forced a Cal punt from the 2-yard line with less than three minutes left … The punt paid off for Cal; the Bears got the ball back with 1:03 left on their own 20- yard line … A targeting penalty on JD Bertrand and a replay review pre- vented a game-clinching interception and a game-sealing fumble return for a touchdown, respectively. ✦ In his first career start, junior quarterback Drew Pyne completed 17 of 23 passes for 150 yards with 2 touchdowns and no interceptions to lead the Irish past Cal. PHOTO BY CHAD WEAVER NOTRE DAME 24, CALIFORNIA 17 Sept. 17, 2022 ✦ Attendance: 77,622 Notre Dame Stadium ✦ South Bend 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Final California 0 10 7 0 17 Notre Dame 0 7 7 10 24 Cal ND SECOND QUARTER Cal Sturdivant 18-yard pass from Plummer (Longhetto kick) 14:27 7 0 Drive: 4 plays, 33 yards, 0:26 ND Tyree 21-yard pass from Pyne (Grupe kick) 8:54 7 7 Drive: 10 plays, 60 yards, 5:28 Cal Longhetto 34-yard field goal 4:11 10 7 Drive: 10 plays, 69 yards, 4:43 THIRD QUARTER ND Estime 1-yard run (Grupe kick) 9:14 10 14 Drive: 9 play, 60 yards, 4:00 Cal Plummer 1-yard run (Longhetto kick) 4:48 17 14 Drive: 10 plays, 75 yards, 4:26 FOURTH QUARTER ND Grupe 47-yard field goal 14:48 17 17 Drive: 10 plays, 46 yards, 5:00 ND Mayer 6-yard pass from Pyne (Grupe kick) 9:16 17 24 Drive: 7 plays, 66 yards, 3:46 Cal ND Total First Downs 18 17 Rushing 7 8 Passing 8 7 Penalty 3 2 Rushing Attempts 31 41 Yards Gained Rushing 165 162 Yards Lost Rushing 53 15 Net Yards Rushing 112 147 Net Yards Passing 184 150 Passes Attempted 37 23 Passes Completed 16 17 Had Intercepted 0 0 Percent Completion 43.2% 73.9% Yards Per Attempt 5.0 6.5 Yards Per Completion 11.5 8.8 Total Offensive Plays 68 64 Total Net Yards 296 297 Average Gain Per Play 4.4 4.6 Fumbles: No.-Lost 0-0 1-1 Penalties: No.-Yards 6-59 8-66 Punts: No.-Yards 6-297 7-319 Average Per Punt 49.5 45.6 Average Net Punt 42.5 40.4 Punt Returns: No.-Yards 2-16 4-22 Kickoff Returns: No.-Yards 1-23 2-34 Interception Returns: No.-Yards 0-0 0-0 Fumble Returns: No.-Yards 0-0 0-0 Miscellaneous Yards 0 0 Possession Time 26:58 33:02 Third-Down Conversions 4-15 3-12 Percentage 26.7% 25.0% Fourth-Down Conversions 1-3 0-0 Percentage 33.3% 0.0% Sacks By: No.-Yards 2-10 6-47