Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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UNDER THE DOME were Dartmouth, Washington University of St. Louis, Vanderbilt, Rice and Pomana College. No. 1 was the California Institute of Technology (1,545), followed by the University of Chicago (1,515) and a three-way tie among Ivy League members Princeton, Harvard and Yale (1,505). Rounding out the top 10 were MIT (1,500), Columbia (1,485), Harvey Mudd College (1,480), Stanford (1,475) and Northwestern (1,470). 13.251 Million viewers and a 7.9 household rating for the Notre Dame-Florida State ABC Saturday Night Football telecast Oct. 18. It was the largest audience for a college football game in the month of October across all networks since such records first were kept in 1991. It also was the most-viewed college football game of the 2014 season and largest audience for a regular- season game on an ESPN platform since Nov. 24, 2012 — when No. 1 Notre Dame's 22-13 victory at USC reached 16,059,000 viewers. 15 Semifinalists named for the high school and college football But- kus Award, presented annually to the nation's top linebacker. Notre Dame verbal commit Josh Barajas of Merrillville, Ind., made the cut for the high school ranks, while Irish sophomore JAYLON S M I T H — the 2012 high school recipient — was one of only two members from his class to make the list in college. The other was UCLA's Myles Jack. PHOTO BY BILL PANZICA