Notre Dame has a better football team than NC State. If you want to deny that, fine; if you want to just rage against losing tonight, that’s fine, you can do that and you should do that. It’s been a hell of a run for NC State. The Irish doused it with a bucket full of reality on Saturday afternoon.
State scored first, thanks to a blocked punt, to put the Irish behind 7-0. Notre Dame quickly responded with a game-tying touchdown, one that took less than 30 seconds. State answered in the form of a brilliant touchdown catch by Kelvin Harmon, but this, it turns out, was mere illusion—the Irish erased that deficit, and they would never trail again.