Notre Dame Football Highlights: Irish Defense Forces Wave of Turnovers, Rout Rice 52-0

Notre Dame’s defense set the tone early and never le-t Rice up, forcing a string of turnovers in a lopsided win highlighted by Boubacar Traore’s fumble-return touchdown on the opening series. The Irish kept piling on from there, with Steve Angeli—pardon, Carr—finding Jordan Faison twice, Micah Gilbert deep, and Cooper Flanagan in the end zone as Notre Dame built separation fast. The highlights were packed with backfield disruption and short fields. Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa showed up repeatedly against the run, Bryce Young was in on multiple negative plays, and Rice’s option looks never really got going. On offense, Carr was efficient…