Tag: Arizona State

Wow – who the hell expected that. ND goes down to Texas and beats a red hot ASU TEAM. Tommy Rees out-duels a red hot QB Taylor Kelly with some picture perfect passing and great receiving especially by TJ Jones who had an All American game. Ben Koyack (TE) gets his first touchdown. ND even had a good kick return by Jones, Niklas TD and 5th year line backer gets a pick 6 to seal the game.

Kyle Brindza 3 FG’S including a 53 yarder. Looks like 6 sacks by ND for minus 45 yards as Shembo (3) and Tuitt came alive. Constant harassment of the ASU QB won this game for the Irish in the 2nd half. The Notre Dame “D” finally came alive to slow down a warp speed offense that I thought would have had them exhausted by the 4th quarter.

The ND defense got a lot of help from the offense which had long drives, ate the clock, scored and kept ASU off the field. ND’s OL really did a terrific job pass blocking for Rees who actually completed some roll out passes. Cam McDaniel led rushers going 15 attempts for 82 yards.

Game Ball to the OL and McDaniel, if I was giving them out. While McDaniel may not have the break away speed he does read the holes much better than GAIII at this stage. Some sad news – ILB Grace went down with a fractured lower leg, just when he was starting to be a force in the middle. Senior WR Daniel Smith fractured his ankle. Both are finished for the year.

Some strange coaching at the end of the game almost snatched defeat from victory. Very strange and ASU almost got the onside kick. Don’t understand why Calabrese in for coverage when all ASU was going to pass, needed to pass and they scored in like 50 seconds.

Anyhow a good win and now they have 2 weeks off to forget everything they’ve learned so far this season. Here are the game highlights: