Notre Dame took care of Stanford in Week 14 and improved its record to 10-2. The win almost guaranteed a playoff spot for the Irish, given how the committee has viewed their head-to-head record with Miami. However, the game also carried a streak for Marcus Freeman that he wished never existed in the first place.

In their first 11 games of the season, the Irish failed to stop their opponents from scoring a touchdown. For a big part of the Stanford game, it looked like Notre Dame would end this streak. At the end of the 3rd quarter, the score read 42-6 with the Cardinal just managing two field goals.

But Stanford punched in two touchdowns in the final quarter. The first came early in the fourth when Elijah Brown hit Bryce Farrell on a 9-yard strike to cut it to 42–13 with a little over nin

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