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✦ News & notes Miscellaneous Notes • Sophomore defensive end Sheldon Day, who sat out the Michigan State game with a sprained ankle, went through all the conditioning drills on Monday and was expected to practice with the team on Tuesday. "He's going to be gradual as the week progresses," head coach Brian Kelly said. "We're going to see more and more from him." • Freshman Rashad Kinlaw (5‑11, 182) and senior walk-on Will Cronin (5-11, 180) will split time as the scout team quarterback this week while preparing for Oklahoma. "He's not as big as [6-6, 252-pound] Blake Bell. Sorry," Kelly said. The players best fitting the physical dimensions of Bell are junior outside linebackers Ishaq Williams (6-5, 261) Sophomore defensive end Sheldon Day, who missed last and Ben Councell (6-4, 254), and ju- Saturday's game against Michigan State due to a sprained nior tight end Ben Koyack (6-5, 261). ankle, returned to practice this week. photo by bill panzica • The battle against Oklahoma will be a "Green Out" game, led by the Leprechaun Legion and the Kelly Cares Foundation handing out upwards of 40,000 green pompons. Everyone will be encouraged to don green. Well, almost everyone. "We will not be wearing green jerseys," Kelly said. • Notre Dame has not committed a turnover in either of its two home games this season and improved to 12-0 under Kelly in such games — 3‑0 in both 2010 and 2011, 4‑0 last season and 2-0 so far this season. Only once has it had consecutive games under Kelly without a turnover: 2011 at Purdue in a 38-10 win followed by a 59-33 defeat of Air Force at home. • A victory against Oklahoma would make it 11 straight home wins for the Fighting Irish. That would be the third longest winning streak in Notre Dame Stadium's 84-year history. No. 1 is the 28 straight from Nov. 21, 1942 until it ended on Oct. 7, 1950. No. 2 is the 19 in a row from Sept. 19, 1987 until it was snapped on Oct. 6, 1990. • Alabama owns the most Associated Press national titles (first awarded in 1936) with nine, while Notre Dame and Oklahoma are second and third with eight and seven, respectively. • Oklahoma (101) and Notre Dame (98) rank first and second in NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision history in weekly No. 1 rankings. • Notre Dame's amazing .900 winning percentage against Oklahoma (9-1) is the best of any Sooner opponent with at least 10 all-time meetings. The Irish also have a seven-game winning streak in the series from 1957-2012. • Oklahoma's lone victory in the series was 40-0 in 1956 — to this day the worst defeat ever suffered by the Irish in Notre Dame Stadium. 7225 Heritage Square Drive, Granger, IN 574-272-2292 | SohoJapaneseBistro.com Japanese Bistro / Tapan Grill / Sushi Bar Minutes From Notre Dame ✦ Page 13