What a beat down. Notre Dame finally, finally showed up on offense and Everett Golson finally, finally showed why he should be the ND Quarterback. He directed a very balanced attack against what appeared to be an up and coming, high scoring Miami team and what a pleasure it was to see.

Golson was 17 0f 22 for 186 passing yards distributing the ball to just about every receiver who played and best of all NO interceptions. We also finally got a real look at the offense Kelly wants to run and by run I mean Golson. No doubt he brings another dimension to this offense as he was able to escape sacks by nimbly sprinting out of bad situations.

And, boy did the running game take off. Riddick was his usual productive self but Wood and Atkinson stole the show. Wood went 18 carries for 118 yards and 2 TD’s, only to be outshone by Atkinson who went 10 carries 123 yards with a beautiful 55 yard TD run. Atkinson, blazing speed and seems to run upright–he reminds me of Eric Dickerson of SMU & NFL fame.

Notre Dame had 587 total yards and even Cam McDaniel got in on the fun with 55 yards and the game’s final touchdown.

The defense was in it’s usual shutdown mode helped out by numerous pass drops by Miami’s Phillip Dorsett who dropped 2 beautiful passes that should have been early TD’s. What surprised me the most was the ND defense inability to get pressure on the Miami QB Stephen Morris who had a lot of time and had a number of pinpoint passes dropped. I think Miami will do just fine with the rest of their schedule based on this QB.

As usual Manti Te’o was all over the place, laying punishing hits all over the field but the best hit I saw was Ben Councell OLB laying into a guy on the sideline.

Notre Dame had a 13 to 3 lead at the half and relentlessly crushed Miami in the 2nd half just running the ball and eating the clock. The last drive of the game was McDaniel running behind subs on the OL for the final score. I think ND had 34 first downs to Miami’s 13–total domination.

AP Poll move Notre Dame up to #7 which I think is just about right for now.

So Notre Dame is 5-0 but can’t rest on it’s laurels with Stanford coming up this Saturday. Stanford won an OT shoot out over Arizona. But they look beatable as opposed to the last few years.

Big Game and ESPN Game Day will be at ND this coming weekend.

Final note Charlie got crushed by Kansas State.

Here is a highlight video of the game: