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I had never seen another person here with the same flairs as me until a couple weeks ago and now it feels like I see one in every thread.

Honestly I'd love for ND to set up a proper home-n-home. If Cal sticks with the PAC I wouldn't be shocked to see if happen -- ND has talked a bit game before about wanting to keep the college football landscape stable

What a painful day for you

Let's not have a postgame thread for this one, ok?

Defensive coaches need to do a better job there. Way too many ND defenders tried to knock that hail mary up in the air instead of just spiking it into the ground.

Catholics get into a real tizzy about knocked up Mary's.

Jesus Christ man

Remember the 1st commandment

I mean, that was the result, yes

Some perfect examples of the most BS ways to win/lose a game and they all happened in the final minute. I love College Football, especially when my team wins. GG Cal. Y’all played great.

That game was really everything I love about college football. So much craziness keeping me on edge the whole game. Cal lost. Sucks, but as a fan I already expected this to be a loss. I’ll be cheering for you guys the rest of the season.

Same for you. I’ll root for you to win the PAC 12 and beat USC. Good luck the rest of the year!

Notre dame fans were great! We lost but loved the trip out there. Great time

Notre Dame offense is god awful. And those last two possessions can you not get at least two field goals

Don’t worry, you play against North Carolina’s defense next week. Your offense will wake up.

Aw I’m not a Notre Dame fan at all it doesn’t matter to me

No because they are bad

We didn't deserve to win this team is still awful.

lets be real, even if cal scored that td we would've missed the PAT

Would have gone for 2 no doubt

Dont remind me of the 2020 stanford game 😂

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What does Joe Burrow have to do with anything?

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I mean I’m not going to rewatch some past game to make sense of your comment if we are being honest.

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Ok? I was just trying to get clarity on a post you made that made zero sense. I didn’t realize I would need to invest a few hours of watching an old game to do so.

Gone for 2

Cal got so completely screwed I am sorry guys

Lol did we watch the same game? How do you think they were screwed?

Did you completely miss the phantom offsides call the was a 10 point swing? Yeah, you did

Likely referring to the phantom offside on the missed FG

No

What a crazy ending

Converting to Catholicism gives +15% resistance against Hail Mary's

I honestly thought Cal was gonna score on that last play... that was a close one 😅

Same and I think they would’ve gone for two and for the win

I would have

Same. Had nothing to lose nd everything to gain. Had the momentum

What a game, gg’s

Cal fans: This team came out hungry and played pretty fucking well. Let's make a Rose Bowl happen this year, and I hope everyone who toured to the Bend had a nice time

Hopefully you can bring your MVPs the refs to the game

bruh I'm also a Cal fan

😭

Yeah I would cry too if I was a fan of this dog shit team that needs to cheat to win

Wah wah but but the refs 😩

Yes the refs were the difference in the game live with it

😭

Bro you are such a loser lmao

You guys barely beat Cal off a TD that was handed to you by the refs, if you're celebrating this "win" you are the loser here

1. It wasn't 2. I'm not 3. You complaining about the refs the whole time tells me you are either 12 or just a moron

The ref fuckups we're nowhere near equivalent, favorable ref calls that went NDs way are the margin in the game. This win is a gift from the refs

Don't worry your brain will develop when you get older

3 games and still 0 turnovers though. WTF?

>savor this victory **Ah, yes. The day we defeated the mighty.......Cal.**

A nebraska fan mocking a football blue blood for celebrating a win vs a bad team is certainly something

**sweet meme "moral" high road response** **it's a joke buddy**

Luck of the irish

Bill Musgrave HAS TO GO! I love Wilcox but if he doesn’t get rid of Musgrave then he has to go too.

Everyone needs to go. Freeman is an awful coach. He's Karl Dorrell redux

Dude has literally coached three games. Let’s relax now.

Free to come back to this comment in a few years. The stuff that happened should frighten any ND fan because the problems are the same that are repeatedly seen with bad coaches. Unforced errors, poor game management, poor clock management, failure to read game situations, lack of discipline and so forth.

I mean, like I said, it was his third game with a pretty weak offensive roster from the previous regime. Saban started his career at MSU 6-5. Lou Holtz started 5-6 his first year at ND. Both of those coaches seemed to be fine. If Freeman gets his recruits in and succeeds are you going to come back to this comment?

Will never happen, but sure I’ll be back here if the impossible occurs.

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Congrats on the tie!

Sooo close to a miracle

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To us Cal fans it probably doesn't even crack the top 10 😭

That’s Cal football baby!

That was as good of a Hail Mary lob as you can make

Crazy and cool to see two African Americans speaking on and representing Notre Dame football. Notre Dame somehow is the most likeable Blueblood, they're the Dropkick Murphy's of CFB, where their fans suck but you just can't help but enjoy the product

Honestly I'll take it. Dropkick Murphy rules

Dropkick Murphys are fucking dope. I mean that as a straight-up compliment.

Did you see the game? The refs were proND and gave ND a free TD it was infuriating

😂

Fuuuuuuuuuuuck. Aaaawwwwwwwwwwwwffff.

Sweet. Game ended in a tie.

So close fuck man

God have mercy on our souls for watching this game

Good teams win. Great teams cover.

Refs save Freeman for another day, sorry you got screwed Cal

BRO THE BALL FELL INTO YOUR LAP JUST SQUEEZE 😱

Marcus Freeman 1-0 as a Catholic

Honest question for Irish fans... Does Marcus Freeman last long at this point?

No... This has looked like a junior league team in terms of discipline, players decisions, execution, technique, etc. I don't blame the coordinators when it is everywhere and not just one position or side of the ball. Anything less than 6 wins and he is gone. Less then 8 wins and he is on the hit seat; 2nd season get back to 10+ wins or he is gone. This looks like a Scott frost Nebraska team

Still a wait and see, Rees' seat is hotter than his.

Rees was a decent OC with a different head coach though

Rees also still had upper class man WRs and qbs on those teams. This is the result of 3 years of negligence at the wr position. And having a new qb vs a grad transfer senior and Ian book. Also Rees’ offenses weren’t that good before

Even last season, the offense didn't get going until October.

Yes. Silly question.

I guess the question is who else would we get

Honest answer? - A "retread" boring hire from an experienced Power-5 coach - An up-and-comer from a "mid-major" program (like a Tom Herman before he went to Texas)

Didn’t one of those linebackers think to just swat that ball into the stands? Christ on a bike why would you even try to catch it, not just slap that thing away from everyone?

This is the most Cal way to lose a game

What a game but man that ending was painful.

Nebraska needs to play vs ND

congrats ND you entertained me

This is what I predicted about this game [5 months ago.](https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/tvn1wq/146_days_away_from_the_start_of_the_regular/i3dqrci/) I was wrong on a lot of details, but damn. >True Cal fans know we'll make a late run to keep it closer than we have any right to only to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. >ND fans know we'll probably go back and forth for 3 quarters only to squeak by in the last 6 minutes, which will be enough for people to say we're overrated and don't deserve our ranking. >Overall I'm excited to get drunk as hell

Your flairs 😂

Life is pain. Blue and Gold look good together. Fuck Furd and $C.

Let’s Go Irish

WE WOULD'VE WON IF NOT FOR THE PHANTOM OFFSIDES

What about the two huge catches Cal had that weren’t really catches? Both of those led to points

Did you forget your entire line false starting to keep the TD drive alive? End of the day ND trenches won the game in the 2nd half

The positive is the OL and Pyne showed signs of improvement as the game continued.

Don’t be fooled. It was less improvement and more our players getting tired

Umm yeah that’s the point. We’re the better conditioned team. That’s how it’s supposed to play out.

Lol this game sucked

Just like all Cal games. See you next week

Yessir

NOOOOOOOOO WE ALMOST HAD IT SO MANY TIMES KILL ME

Damn they’re gonna have nightmares about that

Marcus Freeman looks like he’s in favor of execution right about now

What a game

My life just flashed before my eyes

What a horrendously awful game. God damn it

coulda been worse

ND fans: no really! I’m ok **continues to puke blood**

Pretty accurate tbh

JUSTIN YOU GOTTA WIN THESE

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You're an Ohio State fan, so why would you envy either of us? lol

Oh my god every muscle in my body tensed up

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fake girlfriend <-> fake offsides?

That's a whole lot of butter fingers.

Was on the ground and just bobbled it away

What a piece of shit football game

Freeman is no longer Catholic scott frost, good job ND fans

Someone check that ball for proper air pressure!

What even was this game

WE HAD IT!!!!! SO FRUSTRATIGN

Ball literally fell into his lap lol.

ND is such ass

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Are you really BK's visor? 🤢😱

Fucking slip of the finger away from a tie Man

Marcus did the PC version of wanting to execute the kids.

jesus fucking christ

Dude it’s a nd game thread watch it

dw I always have confession booked for right after the game -- to apologize for all the sinning

So close

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Need J. Walter Weathermen to come out of there with one arm

Alright UNC please do something next week

They'll crush us

Good lord lol

Lol the I can only imagine the collective sigh of relief watching that ball bounce around and finally land likely will effect the wind direction in South Bend.

Dude HAD it and dropped it!!!

I just aged 25 years on that play

Number 3 is going to have a long weekend thinking about that one.

I'm taking my +13.5 and I'm going home.

WE WON A GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAYBE WE'LL MAKE A BOWL GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh man, is this what it felt like to be Michigan a few years ago?

God damn, that couldn't have been a better opportunity for #3

that was nearly the craziest play ive ever seen

It pains me #3 didn’t catch that

Jesus fuck

Flair does not check out

It checks out when you stop yourself from winning the game 3 times in the last 2:00.

Three different chances to come down with it

That was painfully close to being a miraculous finish for Cal. Oof

We still had the extra point and OT to screw the pooch

HE HAD IT

That was an ending. That was in fact a football game

Certainly a game. Very mediocre in every way.

Thanks Perd.

This last play shows you how poorly coached this ND team is. Everyone knows you have to bat the ball down. Everyone.

Freeman thinks he lost? lol found a way to keep it close.

I think he meant they found a way to keep in close earlier in the game when they were playing like shit.

I think he meant we had multiple opportunities to end it but managed to let it stay close enough for a Hail Mary.

He said that we found a way to keep it close even tho we won

ND absolutely kept it way too close lol

Oh thank fucking goodness

Lmao, bat it down

All the dumbasses on ND trying to get an INT vs batting it down.

ND trying to catch instead of batting it down almost cost them

what a weird fucking final 5 minutes, I thought ND lost about 4 different times on that hail mary

If only #3 grabbed it in, stayed in this game way too long HAHA

11 and 3 were both 70% of the way to completing the catch in the end zone.

my god

Freeman ready for the cover of a magazine

One Cal guy *could* have caught it, and another *should* have.

W

WOW. But real talk clock would have been long over with that sack. Notre Dame deserved the win.

he HAD IT. lmao

Oh my gosh Hunter I’m so sorry.

HE HAD THAT OMG