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✦ NEWS & NOTES urday would make it the first time ever they would exit Notre Dame Stadium with an 11-0 record. There have been only three foot- ball teams in the school's history to reach 11-0: the 1973 and 1988 national champs, and the 1989 unit that that finished 12-1 and No. 2. • Wake Forest has lost 31 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES • A victory by the Irish this Sat- straight against top-five teams — most recently 52-0 to then-No. 5 Florida State Sept. 15. It is 0-18 against the Associated Press top three and 0-7 versus the No. 3 team. Its lone victory ever over a top-10 team came on Oct. 26, 1946, when Peahead Walker led the Demon Deacons to a 19-6 win over No. 4 Tennessee. Wake Forest is 1-51 all time against top-10 teams and 1-32 against top-five teams. • The lone common opponent between the two schools this year has been Boston College in back-to-back weeks. Wake Forest defeated the Eagles 28-14 Nov. 3, and the Irish followed with a 21-6 victory at BC. • Senior All-American tight end Tyler Eifert needs five catches to break three-time All-American Ken MacAfee's 35-year Notre Dame record for most career receptions by a tight end. MacAfee had 128 from 1974-77 for 1,759 yards. Eifert has 124 for 1,625 yards. • Notre Dame is 8-1 under third-year head coach Brian Kelly in his nine career games Wake Forest has lost 31 straight against top-five teams, with the most recent such defeat for redshirt junior linebacker Mike Olson and the Demon Deacons being a 52-0 setback to then- No. 5 Florida State Sept. 15. PHOTO COURTESY WAKE FOREST played in November. What makes that notable is the Irish were 1-8 during the same month in predecessor Charlie Weis' last two seasons in 2008 (1-4) and 2009 (0-4). • Three years after finishing 63rd nationally in scoring defense with an average of 25.92 points allowed per game, Notre Dame is tied for No. 1 this week with Alabama with an 11.1 mark. Since the NCAA first started officially keeping stats in 1946, the lone Fighting Irish No. 1 finish in scoring defense was by the 1946 national champs (2.7 points allowed per game). • Wake Forest president Nathan Hatch was a faculty member at Notre Dame starting in 1975 and was the school's provost from 1996-2005. ✦ PAGE 14