UNDER THE DOME BY THE NUMBERS
marked the first football meeting between two universities ranked in both the top 20 in the U.S. News & World Report sur- vey "America's Best Col- leges" and in the top 20 of the weekly football polls. Notre Dame was ranked No. 17 in the latest U.S. News & World
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The Oct. 13 game between Notre Dame and Stanford
athletes, Notre Dame ranks first at 99 percent and Stanford is seventh at 94 percent.
backs Marc Edwards and Jamie Spencer, and tailbacks Autry Denson, Robert Farmer and Randy Kinder.
Oct. 6: seniors Theo Riddick and CIERRE WOOD, and sophomores George Atkinson III and Cam McDaniel. That's the first time that has occurred since a 48-21 victory at Boston College on Nov. 9, 1996, when five different backs scored: full-
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heading into the Oct. 13 game against Stanford. After Te'o earned National Defensive Player of the Week honors
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Where senior linebacker Manti Te'o was ranked by SI.com's Cory McCartney in the Heisman Trophy race
Different Notre Dame running backs who recorded rushing touchdowns against Miami
No. 17, respectively. Overall, they are tied for third among national research universities, each graduating 96 percent of their students. Among student-
at the time of the game, while Stanford was No. 6 and
Report survey and No. 7 in the Associated Press poll
