[Farm93]

Sadly the game went almost exactly as I would have guessed.  Notre Dame did not score 27. Stanford did not lose by 9.5 or 10 or 12.

I was thankful to see that Notre Dame could not move the ball against the Stanford D.  The Stanford D is the best D Notre Dame has faced by a big, big, big margin.  And although the Stanford O-Line is better than any that Notre Dame has played, I did suspect that Notre Dame would ultimately be able to stop Stanford's run game.

Then I would like to think Nunes could rise to the occasion, but that would have been such a big improvement in his play.  He was facing a big hostile crowd, national TV, rain, multiple time zones of travel, semi-cold weather and more.  Nunes pretty much played to expectations IMO.

Stanford was the best team Notre Dame has faced to date, but Stanford was not quite good enough to beat Notre Dame in South Bend.  Oh well.

The good news is that there really is only one team left on Stanford's schedule that is better than Notre Dame.  So if the O can move the ball a little bit against the Pac-12 Ds all should be fine.  Not BCS-bowl fine, but Alamo, Holiday, Sun bowl fine.

Almost does not matter.  It was an OOC game against a very good team.  An upset win would have been sweet, but not essential.

Hard to move beyond this game, and yet so easy because of the opponent coming up on October 20th.

[Farm93]

Sadly the game went almost exactly as I would have guessed.  Notre Dame did not score 27. Stanford did not lose by 9.5 or 10 or 12.

I was thankful to see that Notre Dame could not move the ball against the Stanford D.  The Stanford D is the best D Notre Dame has faced by a big, big, big margin.  And although the Stanford O-Line is better than any that Notre Dame has played, I did suspect that Notre Dame would ultimately be able to stop Stanford's run game.

Then I would like to think Nunes could rise to the occasion, but that would have been such a big improvement in his play.  He was facing a big hostile crowd, national TV, rain, multiple time zones of travel, semi-cold weather and more.  Nunes pretty much played to expectations IMO.

Stanford was the best team Notre Dame has faced to date, but Stanford was not quite good enough to beat Notre Dame in South Bend.  Oh well.

The good news is that there really is only one team left on Stanford's schedule that is better than Notre Dame.  So if the O can move the ball a little bit against the Pac-12 Ds all should be fine.  Not BCS-bowl fine, but Alamo, Holiday, Sun bowl fine.

Almost does not matter.  It was an OOC game against a very good team.  An upset win would have been sweet, but not essential.

Hard to move beyond this game, and yet so easy because of the opponent coming up on October 20th.