— Three hours and change was the scheduled time for the Notre Dame football charter flight to
race home through the night following Saturday’s game in a place where it had never before played.
Everyone Irish, be it coaches, players, assistants, trainers, support staff, would need at least
— Three hours and change was the scheduled time for the Notre Dame football charter flight to
Whew. It was a lot. Right up until the end of a game that was not your typical neutral site of nothing.
So many swings of momentum, which can be as uneasy as drawing 16 - stay or hit? -
in blackjack across the way at Mandalay Bay. So many moments when you thought that Notre Dame has this
one by the neck and has it rather easily, only for everything to shift and realize that
maybe this one wasn’t going to be as easy as it looked like it would go.
16 Brigham Young (4-2). This one wasn’t assured until the closing minutes of the fourth quarter when the Irish defense,
gashed and gouged and on its collective heels for much of the second half, delivered when it had to deliver.
Faced with a fourth-and-1 defensive stand at their own 27 and 3:52 to play,