Notre Dame’s Streak over Navy Ends

Notre Dame lost to the Navy Midshipmen this past Saturday in triple overtime, breaking a streak of consecutive Fighting Irish victories that had lasted an NCAA record 43 games. The Irish failed to score a two point conversion on their final possession in overtime after keeping pace with the Midshipmen all game. The streak was probably more important to Navy than to Notre Dame, because when you are on the right side of the streak, there doesn’t appear t o be any problem. Of course, if the Midshipmen were going to break the streak, it might as well have come this year while the Irish are really struggling.

Of course, there’s tons of silver lining for Notre Dame fans in this game. For one, the Irihs offense finally got going. The 44-46 score might be a little deceiving because there were so many overtimes, but even by the end of the game the Irish had scored 28 points, and they weren’t off of interceptions, either. Evan Sharpley started at quarterback and was completely effective, throwing for 140 yards and two touchdowns on 17/27 completions and no interceptions. Notre Dame running backs combined for 235 yards. The Irish actually combined for more total yards than the Midshipmen.

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