Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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22 OCT. 4, 2025 BLUE & GOLD ILLUSTRATED Stats: Notre Dame outgained Arkan- sas 160 to 119 in total yards … The Irish averaged 10 yards per play to the Razor- backs' 7.4 … The Irish possessed the ball for 7:53 while the Razorbacks had it for 7:07 … Notre Dame had 8 first downs to Arkansas' 4. Items: Arkansas settled for a field goal on the first drive of the game after a costly dropped ball on third down … Notre Dame had four plays of 14 yards or more on its first drive, which ended with a 1-yard touchdown for Love … The Irish had gains of 18, 20 and 22 yards on their second touchdown drive, which came after the defense forced a three-and-out. SECOND QUARTER NOTRE DAME 42, ARKANSAS 13 Top Moment: In a span of 23 sec- onds and four actual snaps, Notre Dame scored 14 points in the final minute of the first half. Love ran in a 3-yard touchdown. Redshirt sophomore safety Adon Shuler forced a fumble that the Irish recovered. Then redshirt junior running back Jadarian Price scored on a screen pass that he took 35 yards into the end zone. At that point, the game was effectively over. Feature Performer: Notre Dame red- shirt freshman quarterback CJ Carr com- pleted 11-of-16 passes for 201 yards with 3 touchdowns and even had a 14-yard first- down carry in the second quarter. Stats: Notre Dame outgained Arkan- sas 260 to 88 in total yards … The Irish averaged 10.4 yards per play to the Ra- zorbacks' 5.2 … The Irish possessed the ball for 7:46 while the Razorbacks had it for 7:14 … Notre Dame had 13 first downs to Arkansas' 3. Items: Arkansas cut its deficit to 14-10 early in the frame with a 1-yard rushing touchdown from a 344-pound offensive lineman, JacQawn McRoy … Redshirt senior Will Pauling scored his first touchdown of the season on a 23- yard catch … Love scored on a perfectly set up 34-yard screen. THIRD QUARTER NOTRE DAME 49, ARKANSAS 13 Top Moment: Price scored his sec- ond touchdown of the afternoon from 16 yards out, giving him and Love a combined total of six touchdowns for the second consecutive game. Feature Performer: Junior wide re- ceiver Jordan Faison had 4 catches for 50 yards in the third quarter. He also com- pleted a 40-yard pass on a fake punt, which was reeled in by redshirt senior receiver Malachi Fields on Notre Dame's first possession of the second half. Stats: Notre Dame outgained Arkan- sas 117 to 65 in total yards … The Irish averaged 6.2 yards per play to the Ra- zorbacks' 5.0 … The Irish possessed the ball for 9:42 while the Razorbacks had it for 5:18 … Notre Dame had 7 first downs to Arkansas' 2. Items: Notre Dame got a fourth- down stop in the red zone, the key stop coming on via a pass broken up in the end zone on third down by freshman corner Mark Zackery IV … Arkansas wide receiver Jaylen Brown had to be carted off with a significant lower leg injury on the same play as Zackery's PBU. FOURTH QUARTER NOTRE DAME 56, ARKANSAS 13 Top Moment: Notre Dame sopho- more running back Aneyas Williams scored on a 17-yard carry with 9:01 re- maining in the game. Feature Performers: Reserve run- ning backs Gi'Bran Payne, Nolan James Jr. and Williams combined for 69 rush- ing yards and a touchdown on 9 carries. Stats: Notre Dame outgained Ar- kansas 104 to 93 in total yards … The Irish averaged 8.6 yards per play to the Razorbacks' 5.8 … The Razorbacks pos- sessed the ball for 7:34 while the Irish had it for 7:26 … Arkansas had 6 first downs to Notre Dame's 5. Items: Redshirt sophomore quar- terback Kenny Minchey completed a 37-yard pass to walk-on freshman wide receiver Matt Jeffery … Redshirt sopho- more safety Luke Talich came away with his second career interception in the end zone … Notre Dame possessed the ball for the final 5:19 to run the clock to 0:00. ✦ Junior running back Jadarian Price had 13 carries for 86 yards and 1 score, plus added 1 catch for a 35-yard touchdown. PHOTO BY CHAD WEAVER