Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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Under the Dome 1 By The Numbers Since 1968, Notre Dame has won only once in its last six games on Nov. 30 (the date of this year's Stanford game), a 48-42 decision at Hawaii in 1991. Among the infamous losses were 58-7 at Miami in 1985 and 55-24 at USC in 1974. On the plus side, the Irish did win two national titles on that day: 7-0 versus Army in 1929 and 26-6 against USC in 1946. 3 Teams that entered the weekend of Nov. 23 having defeated three teams in the top 25 of the BCS standings: Alabama, Stanford and Notre Dame. The Crimson Tide had vanquished Texas A&M, LSU and Ole Miss, while Stanford had beaten Oregon, UCLA and Arizona State. Meanwhile, Notre Dame had handed 9-1 Michigan State its lone defeat (17-13), beat 8-2 Arizona State (37-34) and became the lone opponent to get the better of 8-3 USC (14-10) since Ed Orgeron took over as interim coach and produced a 6-1 record. 8 Semifinalists named Nov. 18 for the John Mackey Award, presented annually to the nation's top tight end, with Notre Dame junior Troy Niklas among them. He is the fifth different Fighting Irish tight end to achieve that distinction since 2005, joining Anthony Fasano, John Carlson, Kyle Rudolph and the 2012 winner, Tyler Eifert. Staying with the eight theme, Niklas's five touchdowns and classmate Ben Koyack's three entering the BYU game were a singleseason Notre Dame record by tight ends, breaking the previous standard of seven in 1977 set by Ken MacAfee (six) and Kevin Hart (one), and matched by Derek Brown (four) and Irv Smith (three) in 1991. Tight end wasn't "officially" recognized as a separate position from end at Notre Dame until the late 1960s. 48-0 Record at home in November under head coach Mike Brey during his 14 seasons at Notre Dame — until it ended Nov. 17 with an 83-70 loss to the Indiana State Sycamores. It snapped a 51-game winning streak overall at home in November, dating back to 1998. In 128 previous home games through seven seasons, Notre Dame's .930 winning percentage overall (119-9) was second only to Kansas' .961. 54 Players in Notre Dame's men's basketball history to reach 1,000 career points, with senior point guard Eric Atkins the most recent during an 83-70 loss to Indiana State Nov. 17. Earlier this season, Atkins became the first three-time captain in the program's history.