On the morning of Notre Dame’s instant-classic against Clemson, NBC producer Rob Hyland ended his crew’s pregame Microsoft Teams meeting with rehearsals of two unexpected scenarios: overtime and an Irish win.
Late that night, both scenarios came true.
“I think some of the people in the truck thought I was crazy,” Hyland said. “But you plan for it, and hopefully someday you get a game that lives up to your expectations. That one certainly did.”
When Hyland discusses this unusual season, he starts there, with 10,000 fans piling onto the field after a game that had been circled on his calendar for years.