The Notre Dame football team throttled Stanford on Saturday. Notre Dame won its 10th game in a row, following the 49-20 victory. One of the Fighting Irish's touchdowns came on an incredible fake punt .

Notre Dame faked a punt and scored on an 84-yard play by Luke Talich. Expand Tweet

Notre Dame made its final case to the College Football Playoff committee that it deserves a bid, following that victory. The Fighting Irish play as an independent in football, and won't appear in a conference title game.

Fighting Irish head coach Marcus Freeman said postgame that his team deserves a berth .

“I know you have the conference champions and the group of five highest-ranked team, but you talk about who are the best teams now. Not Week 1, now, and it’s hard to argue we aren’t one of those

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