For once, a regular-season matchup between two of the top teams in the country lived up to the hype and then some. No. 4 Notre Dame outlasted No. 1 Clemson 47-40 in a double-overtime thriller on Saturday night in South Bend, Indiana. In doing so, the Fighting Irish handed the Tigers their first regular-season loss since 2017, ending the nation's longest regular-season winning streak.
Notre Dame led throughout nearly the entire game before having to come back in the final seconds to force overtime. Clemson didn't take its first lead of the game until 3:33 remained in the fourth quarter. The Tigers went 74 yards in 12 plays, sucking up a large portion of the fourth quarter before running back Travis Etienne, whom the Irish defense had kept bottled up all night, found the end zone from 3 yards out.
Notre Dame took its first lead of the game on only the second play of the night. That's when RB Kyren Williams broke free for a 65-yard touchdown. The Irish then had a chance to go up two touchdowns when facing a fourth-and-1 from the Clemson 2-yard line. However, a false start backed them up 5 yards, and they settled for a field goal to make it 10-0.
Clemson responded with a touchdown of its own to shrink the advantage to 10-7, but then after its defense held the Irish to another field goal, Etienne bobbled a toss in the backfield. Notre Dame's Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah was all too happy to pluck it out of the air and return it for a touchdown to make it 20-10 Irish. The Tigers turned the ball over on their next possession, and Owusu-Koromoah stripping Amari Rodgers of the ball. The Clemson defense held Notre Dame to another field goal, however.
And those missed opportunities nearly cost the Irish their chance at the upset. Clemson erased the 10-point deficit in the third quarter. Then with a chance to retake the lead late in the third, QB Ian Book fumbled in the red zone, and Clemson jumped on top of the ball in the end zone.
Clemson was finally able to take the lead with 3:33 left, and then after a couple of possessions, Notre Dame found itself with the ball at its 0-yard line and 1:48 to go. Book led the team down the field thanks in large part to a 53-yard connection with Avery Davis to set up a first-and-goal. A few plays later, Book connected with Davis for the game-tying touchdown.
In the first overtime, both teams traded touchdowns, but the Irish broke serve in the second. After Williams scored his third touchdown of the night to give Notre Dame a 47-40 lead, the Irish defense twice sacked Clemson QB D.J. Uiagalelei twice to set up two long plays that the freshman was unable to complete to end the game as Notre Dame knocked off the No. 1 team in South Bend for the first time since 1993 when it beat Florida State.
This despite Uiagalelei completing 29 of 44 passes for 439 yards and two touchdowns plus a rushing score in OT on the evening. Those 439 yards were the most ever by a quarterback against Notre Dame.
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