Jeremiyah Love scores 3 TDs, No. 6 Notre Dame hands No. 18 Army 1st loss with romp at Yankee Stadium

By BRIAN MAHONEY

Notre Dame’s tribute crippled to its “Four Horsemen” turned into a beauteous bully one-man amusement by Jeremiyah Love.

Love scored 3 touchdowns, tying a schoolhouse grounds with his 11th consecutive crippled with a rushing TD, and the No. 6 Fighting Irish ended No. 18 Army’s 13-game winning streak with a 49-14 triumph connected Saturday nighttime astatine Yankee Stadium.

The sophomore had TD runs of 68 and 14 yards, finishing with 130 yards connected 7 carries, and leaped implicit a defender astatine the extremity line to decorativeness a 6-yard scoring walk from Riley Leonard.

“It’s astir similar he’s anticipating what the defence is going to bash and erstwhile helium breaks done that 2nd level, I don’t spot galore radical that tin drawback him,” Notre Dame manager Marcus Freeman said of Love, who had a 76-yard TD tally past play against Virginia.

Leonard threw for 2 TDs and Jadarian Price ran for 2 scores for the Irish (10-1), who won their ninth consecutive to amended their College Football Playoff chances. Notre Dame was No. 6 successful those rankings this week and looks each spot similar a nationalist rubric contender, allowing 14 oregon less points successful six consecutive games.

“Everybody connected our discourtesy is simply a dog,” Love said. “Coach Freeman calls america ‘savages’ and that’s truly what we are. We’re conscionable continuing to turn each azygous week and get better.”

Army backmost Bryson Daily ran for 139 yards and some touchdowns, giving him 23 connected the crushed this season. The nonaccomplishment by the Black Knights (9-1) near No. 1 Oregon arsenic the lone unbeaten squad successful FBS. Army came successful starring the federation with 334.9 yards rushing per crippled but managed lone 207 against Notre Dame.

“We couldn’t enactment connected the tract and props to them,” Daily said. “They’re a large team.”

Notre Dame bushed Army for the 16th consecutive clip successful the archetypal matchup wherever some teams were ranked since 1958, the Black Knights’ past victory. This gathering was scheduled to grant the 100th day of Notre Dame’s 1924 triumph successful New York astatine the Polo Grounds, erstwhile Grantland Rice began his communicative astir the exploits of Harry Stuhldreher, Jim Crowley, Don Miller and Elmer Layden with 1 of the astir celebrated openings successful history, writing: “Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again.”

That punctuation lined the partition supra Monument Park successful the stadium’s outfield, down the extremity portion wherever Notre Dame took a 14-0 pb connected TD passes by Leonard connected its archetypal 2 possessions. Army chopped it to 14-7 connected Daily’s 4-yard tally aboriginal successful the 2nd quarter, but the Irish went up by 2 TDs again connected Love’s 14-yard tally that tied Wayne Bullock’s grounds of 11 consecutive games with a rushing TD successful 1973-74.

Army manager Jeff Monken said playing the Irish astatine Yankee Stadium was a large acquisition for his players, though wished they could person made it much competitive.

“I mean, each signifier they outclassed us,” Monken said.

Notre Dame scored touchdowns connected 4 of its six drives successful the archetypal half, past added different 10 seconds into the 2nd fractional erstwhile Love went 68 yards connected the archetypal play to marque it 35-7.

THE TAKEAWAY

Army: Saturday’s crippled was a high-profile meeting, but the Black Knights’ 2 astir important games remain. Army volition look No. 20 Tulane successful the American Athletic Conference title crippled connected Dec. 6, and past has its yearly matchup with Navy connected Dec. 14.

Notre Dame: With plentifulness of playmakers connected discourtesy and 1 of the nation’s champion defenses, the Irish haven’t had thing resembling a adjacent crippled successful 2 months.

POLL IMPLICATIONS

With the squad close supra them falling earlier Saturday erstwhile No. 5 Indiana mislaid 38-15 to second-ranked Ohio State, the Irish could beryllium a top-five squad successful the adjacent AP poll. Army hopes to enactment supra Tulane successful the College Football Playoff rankings (the Black Knights astatine No. 19 are 1 spot ahead) successful lawsuit they are needed arsenic a tiebreaker to find who is the big squad successful the AAC title game.

UP NEXT

Army: Hosts UTSA adjacent Saturday.

Notre Dame: Visits Southern California adjacent Saturday.