• last week
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00:00Because I had to play Notre Dame highlights today, there just wasn't a way it wasn't going to happen.
00:05Irish win 27-24, why don't we pick it up.
00:08Irish down 24-17 with just under 5 minutes to go in the 4th quarter.
00:14And take us home from there on ESPN.
00:16Under 5 minutes to go, 2nd down and 8. Penn State leads by a touchdown.
00:22Leonard throws wide open!
00:25Jayden Greathouse avoided Jalen Reed and scores!
00:3154 yards!
00:33There's Barker.
00:35As long as 49.
00:37Aller hit as he throws!
00:39And it is intercepted!
00:43Christian Gray picks it off!
00:46Graduate student from Salisbury, North Carolina.
00:50To give Notre Dame the lead in the final seconds.
00:5541-yard attempt.
00:59Snap and hold are good.
01:01The kick is good!
01:04He's still Irish!
01:09I brought back so many memories of my childhood, I gotta tell ya.
01:13I was there with the Holts.
01:15I was there with Dan Devine.
01:16I was there with Joe Montana.
01:18I've seen a thousand games at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, one of the greatest places.
01:23An institution in sports.
01:25Not just college football.
01:27An institution in sports.
01:30An institution in sports.
01:32So proud of this team after last night.
01:35Just a tremendous job by them.
01:37Did you see Capital One guy there?
01:39What's in your wallet?
01:40Did you see him?
01:41Well, that was the same guy.
01:43That's the guy that's in that commercial with Jeter and the astronaut that's been pumping everywhere.
01:50That's the same dude last night that was hanging around on the dais with the Orange Bowl trophy.
01:56The guy is everywhere.
01:57It's amazing.
01:58Here is Marcus Freeman.
02:00Of course, halftime is where it was the key.
02:03They were down 10-3.
02:04Just got a big three points for Manjeli.
02:07And Freeman said, we knew we needed to change at halftime.
02:10We got it done.
02:11We have to be able to run the ball.
02:12We have to stop the run.
02:13That's not changing.
02:14We said that going into the game, and we're saying that at halftime.
02:16And we had to make some adjustments, which we did.
02:19We tried to calm some things down.
02:21And you know what?
02:23The running attack, the rushing attack, truly helped us open some things in the passing game in that second half.
02:28And you know what?
02:29Riley just executed.
02:30The wideouts executed.
02:31The O-line did their job.
02:32Titans played well.
02:33And you know, you find a way to win it in a game-winning field goal.
02:36So it was going to be a battle.
02:39And we didn't have great production the first half, and it was a seven-point game.
02:44And I told them, we get the ball the first series of the second half.
02:48And we just got to go out and execute on this play.
02:51But I wanted them to understand we did not play to our standard in the first half,
02:55and credit to Penn State for what they did on both sides of the ball.
02:58But it was a seven-point game.
03:00It didn't feel like that going into the locker room, but it was a seven-point game.
03:04And our guys went out there and performed that second half.
03:07That was the key.
03:08The thing, you and I talked about it already, is that it was only a one-score game.
03:12I thought the field goal, I thought what Angeli did was incredible.
03:15And they were getting physically dominated in the first 30 minutes of that football game,
03:20without a doubt.
03:22And, I mean, I was like, they are in trouble.
03:24At one point I wrote you toast.
03:26They're in trouble.
03:27They are getting pushed around.
03:30But what they did to adjust, and remember, we haven't even talked about the fact
03:34they lost two of their starting offensive linemen in the first half.
03:38And those guys were finished.
03:41And I thought that was something that you had to overcome big time.
03:45That they put in, they plugged two holes with backups that did their jobs.
03:50I heard them say the one tackle, oh, he's only done 68 snaps the whole season.
03:56But he was a senior.
03:57He has been in football games.
03:59So he went out and did a hell of a job.
04:01I thought they did all the adjustments they needed to make it a game in the second half.
04:05I thought the key to the game for me was the first drive of the second half
04:08that they went down and scored, and made it 10-all,
04:11and turned it into a 0-0 game again.

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