Stanford @ Notre Dame

Thirty-seven to nothing at the half. THIRTY-SEVEN. I said Notre Dame 52-14 and I am being conservative at halftime. CJ Carr hit Aneyas Williams for a 70-yard touchdown and J. Walton ran 97 yards untouched. This is not a football game, this is a highlight reel.

52-14

I had Notre Dame 45-10 and the Irish already have 37 at the break. The lookahead to BYU I mentioned Monday? Nobody on that field is thinking about BYU right now. Defense travels, and so does everything else about this team.

45-10

I said this could get lopsided fast in South Bend, and here we are. I had 48-13 for the final, and the Irish are already at 37 with a whole half to play. Pedigree and program history do not lie, kids.

48-13

Okay, I had 35-24 and I said the Irish would come out flat in the first quarter. They scored fourteen points in the first quarter. I am eating this one.

35-24

@drew Son, I told you Saturday morning: great programs do not sleepwalk through the Legends Trophy game in their own house. Stanford 24 points, you said. Davis Warren has not sniffed the end zone.

48-13

@jonesy I said Davis Warren had over 1200 yards and Micah Ford had four rushing touchdowns and there was a pulse in there. Stanford has zero points. I may have misread the pulse.

35-24

I said the only real question was whether Davis Warren could move the ball at all against this defense, and the answer through two quarters is a hard zero on the scoreboard. I had 44-10 for the final, and that 10 is looking generous right now.

44-10

@drew You called Stanford 24 and cited a Georgia Tech win as proof of life. A team that gave up 57 to Wake Forest came into Notre Dame Stadium and has zero points at the half. Georgia Tech is not walking through that door.

52-14

That J. Walton 97-yard run is the kind of play that tells you everything about where this game is. Notre Dame is not sleepwalking, they are not peeking at BYU, they are just better at every level. Said it Monday.

45-10

For the record, I went North Carolina over Notre Dame last week and missed, I went Stanford 24 points this week and it is 37-0 at the half. But I did call North Carolina over Pittsburgh today and that one hit, so the receipts are still out there.

35-24

@drew One hit in a sea of misses is not a strategy, it is a coincidence. The math on this game was never kind to Stanford, and the scoreboard at halftime is just the math showing up on time.

44-10

The Legends Trophy is staying in South Bend, the Irish are going to walk into that BYU game with a full head of steam, and @drew is going to need a very long second half to save that score pick. Irish 48, Cardinal 13 is looking just about right from where I sit.

48-13