Notre Dame Buries Stanford Under 367 Rushing Yards
It was 37-0 at halftime, and the second half was a formality. Notre Dame beat Stanford 58-7 and stayed perfect at 6-0, running 44 times for 367 yards and 604 total yards against a Cardinal offense that managed 209.
Jonaz Walton made the biggest dent. His 97-yard touchdown run early in the second quarter turned a 14-0 game into a 20-0 game (the extra point failed, which nobody cared about), and he added a 40-yard score in the fourth. Together those two runs are 137 of his 181 rushing yards on 13 carries. Nolan James Jr. scored twice on the ground, from 2 yards in the first quarter and 31 yards in the second, and Javian Osborne closed the scoring with a 3-yard run with three minutes left.
C.J. Carr barely had to work. He went 14 of 20 for 181 yards and three touchdowns: 3 yards to Jaden Greathouse, 70 yards to Aneyas Williams, 30 yards to Elijah Burress. Williams caught one pass all day and it went for 70 yards and a score.
Stanford's day was short on everything. Davis Warren threw one interception and lost a fumble, the team threw two picks in all, and its only points came on a 3-yard pass from Warren to Benji Blackburn with 2:43 left in the third, which made it 44-7. Notre Dame did not turn the ball over. Stanford drops to 2-4.
Fantasy owners who held Walton (who had 27.6 points on the year before this one) got a nice surprise, and the Notre Dame backfield was a three-man feast.