Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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20 SEPT. 27, 2025 BLUE & GOLD ILLUSTRATED BY JACK SOBLE AND TYLER JAMES J eremiyah Love put his hands up as Jadarian Price crossed the goal line for his fourth touchdown against Purdue. His pearly white grin was visible from the press box. Love did most of the work on that third-quarter drive, at which point he was jumping over and spinning past Boil- ermaker defenders just because he could. The two combined for 373 all-purpose yards and 6 touchdowns in Week 4, mak- ing a fairly airtight case to be the best backfield tandem in college football. Notre Dame Stadium received three doses of lightning on this Saturday afternoon. One came in the form of a weather delay lasting one hour and 54 minutes. The others were Love and Price, whom Purdue's defense couldn't stop whatsoever. Every time the Boilermakers looked like they would make the weather-ex- tended matchup a game — scoring 23 first-half points in another alarming performance for the Irish defense — Love and Price wouldn't let them. No. 24 Notre Dame (1-2) beat Pur- due (2-2) 56-30, improving to 1-2 and picking up its first win since the Orange Bowl Jan. 9. Much like last week's 41-40 loss to Texas A&M, Mike Denbrock's of- fense was the star of the show. "Funny little behind-the-scenes thing," Price said. "So, me and Jeremi- yah together, we scored 4 [touchdowns] last week, and we're like, 'Okay, we gotta top it this week. We gotta score 6.' And we did that." The Fighting Irish offense kicked into high gear on its first play, catching the Boilermakers by surprise. With Purdue loading up to stop the run, redshirt freshman quarterback CJ Carr ran play action and saw redshirt senior wide receiver Malachi Fields running a deep post with a step on his defender. Carr RUN THE DANG BALL Jeremiyah Love and Jadarian Price go ballistic as Notre Dame handles Purdue, 56-30 Redshirt junior running back Jadarian Price scored 4 touchdowns and amassed 216 all-pur- pose yards on just 11 touches. PHOTO BY MICHAEL MILLER