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were both ranked in the AP top 10, with the Oct. 27 game at No. 8 Oklahoma the most recent. Entering the showdown in Norman, Okla., Notre Dame had an overall record of 50-34-5 (.590) in such contests — 22-11-1 (.662) at home, 15-14-2 (.516) on the road and 13-9-2 (.583) on neutral fields.
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Games since 1936 — the year the AP poll began — that Notre Dame has played in which it and the opponent
contest. That was the most by the Irish over a three-game span since 2003 when they amassed 804 yards on the ground versus Navy, BYU and Stanford. Julius Jones totaled 600 of those yards (74.6 percent).
Yards rushing by Notre Dame versus Miami, Stanford and BYU from Oct. 6-20, an average of 265.3 yards per
against Brigham Young with se- nior Theo Riddick (143) and Wood (114). The only other season it hap- pened twice was 1996, with Autry Denson and Robert Farmer doing it both times.
III (123 yards) and senior CIERRE WOOD (118), and the second
a three-week period. The first this season was against Miami by sophomore George Atkinson
has had two 100-yard rushers in the same game — the first re- corded one occurring in 1954 — with two of them coming this year over
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