ARLINGTON, Texas — Notre Dame missed out on a big early game-turning play by the very nose of the football. When the third-ranked Irish needed just about everything to go perfect, their national championship drought instead stretched to three decades after another big post-season loss. And we generated virtually no big plays,” Kelly said. “It’s really surprising that knowing all year we stopped offences from being able to have those big plays, and to come out here in this situation and give up big plays was very heartbreaking,” said Coney, who had 16 tackles. “If we recover that ball, it’s a whole different ball game,” Claypool said.

Source: National Post December 30, 2018 01:07 UTC