No. 22 UNC Wins Over Notre Dame 29-24

In last weekend’s college football match-up, No. 22 UNC beat unranked Notre Dame 29-24. The 4-1 UNC Tarheels played 4-1 Notre Dame Fight Irish at UNC. Both teams won the week before; UNC over No.22 Connecticut 38-12 and Notre Dame over unranked Stanford 28-21.

Notre Dame opened the scoring with Jimmy Clausen touchdown pass to Golden Tate. UNC later kicked a field goal to make it 7-3. Notre Dame kicked a field goal followed by a UNC field to make it 10-6 ND. Later in the second ND Jimmy Clausen, throw another touchdown to Michael Floyd. After another field goal by UNC, the score was 17-9 ND.

On the first play of the third quarter, Quan Sturdivant of UNC had a interception returned for a touchdown. Later in third, ND scored again, this time a rushing touchdown by James Aldridge. The score was 24-16 ND. Then, a Ryan Houston rushing TD, but a missed two-point conversion made it 24-22 ND. However, on the first play of fourth quarter, Cameron Sexton rushed in a TD. UNC got its first lead of the game 29-24. Late in fourth, ND got the ball back on their 18 with 1:47 to play. They got it to UNC 33 with 11 seconds to go, Jimmy Clausen found a wide receiver, but fumbled the ball and UNC recovered it. The play reviewed and after a lengthy review, the fumble was upheld and ran out the clock.

Jimmy Clausen threw for a career-best 383 yards. Sexton threw for 201 yards and a rushing TD. Quan Sturdivant had a key interception returned for a touchdown. UNC is now No. 18 and 5-1 and ND is 4-2. UNC plays Virginia and ND plays Washington. It was UNC’s first win over ND since 1960.