ESPN's mesmerized "Pope of College Football," Beano Cook, immediately predicts Powlus will win not
one but two Heisman Trophy awards.
Meanwhile, Notre Dame head coach Lou Holtz is distressed about having to rely on the pass too much
while rushing for only 161 yards.
"My worst fears were realized because we can't run the ball … at all," Holtz said. "If we can't do that,
we're not going to be successful."
5 Years Ago: Sept. 5, 2009
No. 23 Notre Dame opens head coach Charlie Weis' fifth season with a sterling 35-0 victory over Nevada,
an "upset special" team headlined by junior quarterback Colin Kaepernick and its vaunted Pistol offense.
Irish junior signal-caller Jimmy Clausen completes 15 of 18 passes for 315 yards with touchdown passes
of 24, 70 and 88 yards to sophomore Michael Floyd, and 19 yards to sophomore tight end Kyle Rudolph.
Clausen's 17.5 yards per attempt breaks his single-game school record of 15.42 set nine months earlier
during a 49-21 rout of Hawaii in the Hawaii Bowl. Floyd's 47.25 yards per his four catches also sets a
single-game Notre Dame record (minimum of four receptions).
It also was the fifth consecutive Notre Dame home game in which the Irish did not commit a turnover.
— Lou Somogyi
UNDER THE DOME
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