BYU Stays Unbeaten, Edges Notre Dame 28-24
Bear Bachmeier scored three touchdowns himself and threw for a fourth. He ran for two, caught one (yes, the quarterback), and hit Walker Lyons for the one that won it. Forty Promethium points, in case you started him.
BYU scored first on a 5-yard Bachmeier run, and Notre Dame answered with a field goal and an 8-yard Nolan James Jr. run to lead 10-7 in the second quarter. That was the Irish's only lead of the first half. Kyler Kasper, a wide receiver, threw a 15-yard touchdown to Bachmeier with 5:52 left in the half, and Bachmeier ran in from the 1 with 1:29 to go. At the break it was 21-10 BYU.
Notre Dame did the climbing after that. Spencer Porath kicked field goals of 31 and 39 yards in the third, the second with 11 seconds left, which made it 21-16. Jonaz Walton scored from 3 yards early in the fourth, and the two-point try worked, so Notre Dame led 24-21 with 9:31 to play. BYU needed the final lead change (four in all) and got it: Bachmeier to Lyons from 6 yards with 1:47 left.
The yardage did not tell the story. Notre Dame outgained BYU 376-361 and threw no interceptions, while BYU had one pick and one lost fumble. The Irish also lost a fumble. BYU goes to 6-0, Notre Dame falls to 6-1, and the Irish needed that two-point conversion just to lead by three at 9:31. Jaden Greathouse had 8 catches for 125 yards in defeat.
BYU's 6-0 mark has now survived a game in which it trailed in the fourth quarter. Lyons finished with 5 catches for 49 yards and the one score, and Legend Glasker had 5 catches for 66 yards for Notre Dame. It was close, and it counts the same as a blowout.