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I don't think that Notre Dame could have run the clock down, at least not until they had a fourth down.  Imagine they have second and goal from the one foot down (if the TD had been overturned), and they run the clock down to 5 seconds, and the defense stuffs them and they never get another play off.  My guess is that Notre Dame would have called time out immediately to stop the clock and then tried only as many runs as they had time outs (or on the final play of the game).  The only thing worse than scoring with too much time on the clock is not scoring because time ran out on you.  So, I think Kelly continues to use as little time as possible (remember, he called a time out after the fourth down conversion).

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I don't think that Notre Dame could have run the clock down, at least not until they had a fourth down.  Imagine they have second and goal from the one foot down (if the TD had been overturned), and they run the clock down to 5 seconds, and the defense stuffs them and they never get another play off.  My guess is that Notre Dame would have called time out immediately to stop the clock and then tried only as many runs as they had time outs (or on the final play of the game).  The only thing worse than scoring with too much time on the clock is not scoring because time ran out on you.  So, I think Kelly continues to use as little time as possible (remember, he called a time out after the fourth down conversion).

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