Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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22 OCT. 14, 2023 BLUE & GOLD ILLUSTRATED Dame 148-53. Notre Dame averaged 1.4 rushing yards per carry on 7 attempts. Items: The quarter opened with a forced fumble against Thrash by gradu- ate student cornerback Cam Hart, who also recovered it … Louisville junior kicker Brock Travelstead made a 44- yard field goal of his own … Louisville's touchdown drive was two plays; Jordan scored after a 19-yard run from junior wide receiver Ahmari Huggins-Bruce … The Irish converted 1 of 4 third downs. FOURTH QUARTER LOUISVILLE 33, NOTRE DAME 20 Top moment: Jordan struck again, in largely the same fashion. This time to the left side, Jordan ran off tackle, found a hole and blew by Notre Dame graduate safety DJ Brown for a 21-yard touch- down. That put Louisville up 24-13. Feature performer: Junior defensive back Devin Neal intercepted Hartman twice. The first one was the play after Travelstead extended the Cards' lead to 27-14 with a 45-yard field goal, on a throw intended for Evans. Stats: Hartman completed 7 of 16 throws for 83 yards. Louisville averaged 2.9 yards per play. Items: A facemask penalty on gradu- ate student linebacker Marist Liufau ex- tended the drive on which Jordan scored … Travelstead made 3 field goals on 3 consecutive Louisville possessions … Notre Dame went for it on fourth-and-11 with 9:49 left, and Hartman threw an in- complete pass. … Evans scored a 6-yard touchdown with 1:38 to go. ✦ ND LOU FIRST QUARTER LOU Thrash 9-yard pass from Plummer (Travelstead kick) 6:05 0 7 Drive: 12 plays, 70 yards, 7:06 SECOND QUARTER ND Faison 36-yard pass from Hartman (Shrader kick) 6:58 7 7 Drive: 11 plays, 88 yards, 5:45 THIRD QUARTER ND Shrader 53-yard field goal 13:18 10 7 Drive: 4 plays, 4 yards, 1:35 LOU Travelstead 44-yard field goal 8:24 10 10 Drive: 9 plays, 48 yards, 4:54 LOU Jordan 45-yard run (Travelstead kick) 5:45 10 17 Drive: 2 plays, 64 yards, 0:43 ND Shrader 54-yard field goal 1:06 13 17 Drive: 7 plays, 27 yards, 4:39 FOURTH QUARTER LOU Jordan 21-yard run (Travelstead kick) 11:12 13 24 Drive: 11 plays, 75 yards, 4:54 LOU Travelstead 45-yard field goal 7:31 13 27 Drive: 4 plays, 7 yards, 2:18 LOU Travelstead 32-yard field goal 5:02 13 30 Drive: 4 plays, -4 yards, 2:18 LOU Travelstead 35-yard field goal 3:12 13 33 Drive: 4 plays, 8 yards, 0:22 ND Evans 6-yard pass from Hartman (Shrader kick) 1:35 20 33 Drive: 7 plays, 75 yards, 1:37 ND LOU Total First Downs 17 17 Rushing 5 10 Passing 10 6 Penalty 2 1 Rushing Attempts 28 40 Yards Gained Rushing 92 207 Yards Lost Rushing 48 22 Net Yards Rushing 44 185 Net Yards Passing 254 145 Passes Attempted 38 24 Passes Completed 22 17 Had Intercepted 3 0 Percent Completion 57.9% 70.8% Yards Per Attempt 6.7 6.0 Yards Per Completion 11.5 8.5 Total Offensive Plays 66 64 Total Net Yards 298 330 Average Gain Per Play 4.5 5.2 Fumbles: No.-Lost 2-2 2-1 Penalties: No.-Yards 3-35 6-35 Punts: No.-Yards 4-170 4-179 Average Per Punt 42.5 44.8 Average Net Punt 37.2 39.8 Punt Returns: No.-Yards 0-0 3-21 Kickoff Returns: No.-Yards 3-72 0-0 Interception Returns: No.-Yards 0-0 3-38 Fumble Returns: No.-Yards 0-0 0-0 Miscellaneous Yards 0 0 Possession Time 28:36 31:24 Third-Down Conversions 3-13 5-14 Percentage 23.1% 35.7% Fourth-Down Conversions 0-2 0-0 Percentage 0.0% 0.0% Sacks By: No.-Yards 2-15 5-37 LOUISVILLE 33, NOTRE DAME 20 Oct. 7, 2023 ✦ Attendance: 59,081 L&N Stadium ✦ Louisville, Ky. 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Final Notre Dame 0 7 6 7 20 Louisville 7 0 10 16 33 The Irish defense had trouble containing Louisville running Jawhar Jordan, who finished with 143 yards rushing and 2 touchdowns. PHOTO BY CHAD WEAVER