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No. 5 Notre Dame not making excuses about clock glitch following 1st loss of the season at BYU · Best of: Features

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  Number five, Notre Dame not making excuses about clock clich following first
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  loss of the season at BYU. This article
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  is being read by an automated voice generated by Everlet. Notre Dame
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  coach Marcus Freeman wasted not a single second blaming a clock glitch
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  for his team's loss at BYU. Instead, he spent the bi week
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  focused on mistakes to get the fighting Irish back on track. While
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  Big twelve officials acknowledged last week that the refs erred by not
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  putting one second back on the clock, giving Notre Dame another play
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  to keep its fifteen game winning streak alive. Instead, they allowed time
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  to expire, and the Irish wound up losing twenty eight twenty four
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  to them, then eighth ranked Cougars. I reminded our guys that sometimes
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  you've got to lose to win, Freeman said Monday, the first time
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  he's spoken publicly since the Big Twelve's announcement. There's lessons in losing
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  that, if you learn from them, will help you be better prepared
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  for the next opportunity that presents itself. Our job is to learn
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  from the many lessons I think that loss taught us, and I
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  use the one second as an example. One second represents one more
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  play, and we can't use it as an excuse. We've got to
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  use it as a reminder that there were many one plays that
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  if we win that play, It changes the outcome of the game.
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  Had Notre Dame won in Provo, Utah, it might have ascended from
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  number two to number one on one of college football's wackiest weekends.
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  Instead, they fell to number four after five of
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  the top seven teams lost. It marked the first time that happened
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  since the poll began in nineteen thirty six. BYU, meanwhile, rose to
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  number two only to fall back to number eight this week following
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  a thirty nine thirty one loss at UCF last weekend. Notre Dame
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  fell one more spot this week to number five. Following the Big
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  Twelve's review of the final play of Saturday's Notre Dame Bue game,
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  it was determined that time remained on the clock when the ball
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  hit the ground and the play was incorrectly cleared by the replay
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  officiating crew. Conference officials said in a statement following the october seventeenth
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  game's conclusion. The conference will conduct a complete review of its end-of-game
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  officiating process in advance of October 24th weekends games. Time
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  remained on
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  the clock when the ball hit the ground and the play was
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  incorrectly cleared by the replay officiating crew, the Big Twelve said in
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  a statement Last week. Still, the Irish, six and one, remain in
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  solid playoff position following their bye week. They'll renew their annual rivalry
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  with Navy two and five on Saturday in Foxboro, Massachusetts. It's not
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  the first time Notre Dame has dealt with late game adversity during
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  F Freeman's tenure. In September 2023, the Irish had ten defenders on
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  the field, when the Buckeyes scored on a one yard run, to
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  take a seventeen fourteen lead with just over a minute to go.
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  The Buckeyes won seventeen fourteen. Last year, a botch snap on an
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  extra point allowed Texas A and M to rally for a forty
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  one forty win by tying the score with an eleven yard T
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  D pass with thirteen seconds and then making the extra point to
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  take the lead. There also was a controversial no call for holding
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  on the Aggies final offensive play. Every week matters, and I think
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  we've learned that valuable lesson throughout the course of my head coaching
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  career. Freeman said. If you don't respect the opponent, you will get
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  humbled. There's many examples I can give you, so our guys have
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  no concern that our guys will be looking past this opportunity. And
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  that includes talking any more about whether or not the Irish should
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  have gotten one more play inside BYU's ten yard line on october
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  seventeenth. I don't know in that's situation that our guys in the
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  press box could say that the ball hit the ground with one
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  second left, Freeman said. I think it's something that you've got to
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  trust the officials and the replay officials to make sure they get
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  that call right. There's got to be some type of systematic thing
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  where that mistake doesn't happen. But you know, the minute that game
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  was over it was complete chaos, like people on the field. They
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  said it was over, and I don't anybody knew there was a
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  second left until hours, maybe at least an hour later. I didn't
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  know until somebody told me on the plane flight home, so I
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  don't know if that's something we can truly monitor with the human
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  eye. The head of replay, I think, is the one that said
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  it's over. So there's nothing you can do in the moment. Sign
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