Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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STANFORD GAME NOTES HAPPY TRAILING Fighting Irish can now relate to the rest of col- lege football. For the first time all season, Notre Dame fell behind in a game. Until a second quarter touchdown by the Cardinal, the Irish had not trailed at all during their 6-0 start to the 2012 season. In its first real test of The No. 7-ranked playing with adversity, Notre Dame passed in impressive fashion. The Irish emerged from the halftime locker room trailing by a touchdown and twice erased score- RED ZONE EFFICIENCY (INSIDE 20-YARD LINE) Notre Dame 4 Stanford 4 Notre Dame Poss. TD FG Score 1 2 0 1 No 1 3 3rd-Down Conversions 4th-Down Conversions Avg. Field Position Time of Possession Stanford 3rd-Down Conversions 4th-Down Conversions Avg. Field Position Time of Possession BY DAN MURPHY board deficits to force overtime. "I told to them at halftime, I said: 'Listen, what did you think, we were going to go the whole year and not trail and do that the whole year?' You don't do that in college football, at any level," head coach Brian Kelly said. "I said, 'Stick with the plan. Here is what's going on out there. Continue to play.' "We found a way to Irish committed nine penalties, including five false starts, which broke the momentum of some possessions and started others on a bad note. Sophomore quarter- run the football, late, again, which tells me a lot about our physical preparation." Notre Dame never ap- peared to panic de- spite giving plenty of reasons for doubt to creep onto the home sideline during three quarters of football pocked by errors. The ND-32 STAN-37 STAN-30 STAN-34 STAN-25 1st Qtr. 2nd Qtr. 3rd Qtr. 4th Qtr. 7:47 0-3 0-0 ND-14 7:45 7:15 1-4 0-1 2-4 0-0 ND-26 4:39 10:21 1-3 0-0 0-3 0-0 ND-16 8:23 6:37 2-3 0-0 3-4 0-0 back Everett Golson had his most mistake- riddled game so far this season. He fumbled four times and lost three of them. But Kelly resisted the urge to go to his bull- pen before a head injury sacked Golson for the remainder of the game. The first-year starter rewarded his coach by regaining his poise in time to tie the game in the fourth quarter and at least start the march to- ward a last-minute scor- ing drive. "I was really proud of NOTRE DAME VS. STANFORD QUARTER-BY-QUARTER COMPARISON 1st Qtr. 2nd Qtr. 3rd Qtr. 4th Qtr. 7:13 2-5 0-0 ND-24 STAN-35 STAN-30 STAN-33 1st Half 2nd Half Final 15:32 2-7 0-0 3-7 0-0 28:34 5-14 0-0 ND-24 ND-24 13:02 16:58 3-6 0-0 31:26 6-15 0-1 him today," Kelly said. "He grew up. I know it 1st Half 2nd Half Final 14:28 3-9 0-1