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Saw an interesting stat. Marcus Freeman’s Irish have now won 12 consecutive games by double digits. No ND coach has done that … since Rockne.

If you judge it with the hindsight of knowing what happened afterward, you’re right. But if you look at the decisions in isolation, Johnson’s was worse.

Arguably, Johnson’s decision to go for it on 4th down on their own 21 was worse.

That TD throw to Kmet was absolutely sick! Who does that?

Legal. Here’s the language of the rule: “2. The ball remains live if, at the snap, a place-kick holder with his knee(s) on the ground and with a teammate in kicking position rises and catches or recovers an errant snap and immediately returns his knee(s) to the ground and places the ball for a kick or again rises to advance, hand, kick or pass. NOTE: The ball becomes dead if the place-kick holder muffs the snap or ­fumbles and recovers after his knees have been off the ground, and he then ­touches the ground with other than hand or foot while in possession of the ball.”

Tippy Valley scores on a long pass on the last play of the quarter. Try failed. 6-6 at the end of a very snappy 1st period.

Knox takes the opening kickoff and scores after an 8:18 drive, all on the ground. 6-0 over Tippy Valley. 3:42 of the 1st,

I’ll be at Knox, as they take on Tippecanoe Valley. Renewing acquaintances with Coach Russ Radtke. We go back a looooong way.

Team A lines up for a 2 pt. try. A3 takes the handoff and fumbles. The ball is lying at rest on the 2 yd. line. B2 attempts to recover it, but muffs it and it goes into the end zone, where B6 falls on it. B2’s muff is a new force which was responsible for the ball being in B’s end zone where it was declared dead in B’s possession. Result is a safety. 1 pt. because it was during a try.

“Real” gold is the only …well, real shade of gold. The others are gold-ish.

I thought the uniforms were OK, except I am not a fan of player names on the back of the jersey. At Notre Dame, by tradition, the names only go on in the post season.

Beware the slippery slope.

Did you, by any chance, read the B1G’s excellent explanation of how the replay process got this right, or are you not interested in accuracy?

A 4 TD win over a B1G team on the road in the opener. I’ll take it. They say a team improves the most between weeks 1 & 2. We’ll see. Concerned about the injury to Tae Tae.

Agree to disagree. I contacted a friend who is a former replay official in the NFL and now works as a replay advisor to the Washington Commanders. Here’s what he told me: “I had a game several years ago on SNF and a prominent QB in a red jersey clocks the ball at the end of the game. It’s right as the GC is showing 0. I hold the crew. I look at it and the ball is hitting the ground with 1 second clearly showing on the Hawkeye system. On the TV it clearly shows 0 on the timing “bug” at the bottom of the TV viewers screen. I could see both when I did it and went with the official clock. I put 1 second on the GC and we had one last play. NY agreed in the moment and after. The prominent QB in a red jersey throws a Hail Mary incomplete so nobody cared. Here’s what I know. Obviously one of the clocks last night was inaccurate-only by indiscernible hundredths of a second. And nobody would ever notice (or care) until it’s this tight. I have found over the years that the clocks on the TV viewers screen tend to be the inaccurate ones. The process of broadcasting a clock….. sending that image to the truck and then electronically superimposed it on the broadcast takes a micro second and usually makes the TV clock slow….even though that’s the opposite of what happened last night and to me a few years ago on SNF. More commonly, the clock you see all game in the scoring and timing “bug” at the bottom of the TV screen it purely synthetic and will always run slow. End of the day the clock on replay monitors is the one that is going to be used and always has been used. It is the one that is set side by side on the RO monitor. If someone way smarter than me can figure out how to truly synchronize all of the clocks that are viewed by multiple sources and inputs at a football game please knock yourself out. Officials would be happy to take this controversy source out of play.”