FINAL SCORE Notre Dame 14-42 Alabama
Bama captures it's third BCS National Title in four years!
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Safe to say this one is over people. Good night.
McCarron to Cooper! TOUCHDOWN!!
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2nd & 10 Irish from oWN 19
TOUCHDOWN TIDE! PAT GOOD!
1st & 10 shotgun with time! Lacey gets the pass. Lacey spins! LACEY'S IN!!! TOUCHDOWN EDDIE LACY!!!
:39 seconds remaining on 3rd & LONG Tide completes and the are at the ND 11
Injured player on the field--- JONES WITH THE GRAB INSIDE THE 10-YARD LINE!
1st & 10 1:08 remaining in the 2nd quarter--- short pass for a few miss.....TIMEOUT!
2nd & 10 Yeldon goes for eight... 3rd & 2 MISSED TACKLE!!! Yeldon takes it for the first down!
Drops back... McCarron pump... off receivers' finger tips.
1st & 10 Crimson attacking with less than 3 minutes remaining in the half
1st & 10 Crimson Tide Yeldon goes for two yards ... 2nd & 8 Yeldon gains the first down
GOLSON FAILS!! No where to go! Gets sack for a loss!
3rd & 3 4:41--- The Irish can make this a game with a score and then taking the ball in the third quarter
1st & 10 incomplete pass underthrown to the left 2nd & 10 Eifert with the grab for 7 yards
1st & 10 from the two FIRST DOWN! Hits Eifert for the completition
4th & 10 ND gets another chance... fieldeed at the 5... LOSS OF THREE! Special teams for the Tide are working well!
3rd & 10 MCCARRON GOES DEEP!! Cooper can't make the grab!! A little too long
2nd & 10 Williams tips pass and McCarron throws ball away.
1st & 10 Lacey must have thought about himself running into the end zone. He dropped the pass with no defenders around.
2nd & 6 shotgun Quick pass. Michael Williams TE with the first down grab
Lacy has 92 yards
1st & 10 Lacey again! TAKES DOWN DEFENDER TO THE SIDE WITH SHOULDER! No first down, but Lacey is intimidiating the Irish
4th & 1 PUNT... Alabama will start at OWN 13--- Lacey takes it. WOW! Does such a great hob finding the hole!
3rd & 3 short! Golson with poor decision to run it. Gains a hard and a half
2nd & 13 Jones with the grab. Gain of about 10
1st & 10 from OWN 29 Clinton Dix with the penetration drops Russell.
1st & 10 11:44 left in the 2nd quarter --- the runup the gut! Russell gains about 22!
4th & 13 First punt for Alabama... MUFFED PUNT! The ball rolls out of bounds! OH! They get lucky, but will start at OWN 8
3rd & 22 McCarron has open receiver short, but he runs it... gain of about nine
3rd & 12 WOW! Alabama had the first down! But holding call will take them 10 yards back
2nd & 10 Okay. Okay. Calabrese with a stop and they drop Lacey for a loss of two
1st & 10 at OWN 39 Lacey play fake. There was pressure and McCarron throws it away
3rd & 10 Golson pressured. He takes off. FAIL! Gain of five. KELLY GOES FOR 4th! Shot gun. DEEEEP PASS!!! PASS BROKEN UP! Tide takes over!
2nd & 10 MOSLEY CUTS DOWN THE RUN! Russell went NOWHERE
1st & 10 from 44 horrible pass to the left. Overthrew receiver.
OKAY! The Irish respond! Deep pass and they are in Alabama territory in their first play of the 2nd quarter
TOUCHDOWN! Yeldon takes it in. McCarron's girlfriend reacts a little late on the score, but she celerated.
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1st & GOAL Yeldon just inches short of the first down! ....
2nd & 13 Yeldon very patient. Finds a nice hole. 3rd & 6 FIRST DOWN! Cooper with the grab!
1st & 10 FINALLY! Notre Dame with a stuff! Lacey dropped for a loss
1st & 10 Cooper with the head fake! Runs for the first down.
McCarron is making it look tooooo easy right now. Are we sure this is the same ND team of the regular season?
1st & 10 McCarron hits the field--- run to the left... 2nd & 3 Fake to Lacey. HORRIBLE TACKLE! Norwood into ND territory!
4th & 10 PUNT Jones catches it on a bounce... BOOM! Gets hit and taken down immediately
2nd & 10 incomplete pass back to back lead to 4th DOWN. Golson had to run out the pocket and throw ball out of bounds
1st & 10 it was ND ball.... Riddick stopped! Goes nowhere
On the slow mo, Eifert is clearly down for a gain about seven. OFFICIAL Review on the way
6:14 to play in the first quarter---- 1st & 10 Eifert fumbles! ... Watch the refs screw this one up too. Eifert's knee was down. He put up a fight and didn't want to go down, which allowed his defender to strip the ball.
1st & GOAL WILLIAMS WITH THE GRAB! WIDE OPEN!!!
3rd & 1 Lacey with beautiful jump cut! Three yards short of second score
3rd & 6 No. 80 Shinn with the first down grab... Now 3rd & 1 after lacey runs
2nd & 10 Lacey again. Takes it to the endge and gets about four yards
1st & 10 BIG HIT! Catch... NO! Incomplete pass. Ball comes out last minute after big hit.
3rd & 1 Lacey again with a huge gap. TAKES DOWN THE IRISH DEFENDERS, but is stopped
Fans still booing.
1st & 10 gain of three on the run... 2nd & 7 Lacey is so strong!! Barrels through for six
WOW! WOW! WOW! These refs are horrible. Another botched call. Own man made contact with Jones the receiver. This should be Irish football. his is a bad bad bad cal.. Alabama starts from OWN 39 and the fans are BOOING
TIMEOUT NOTRE DAME--- They have to punt... Fair catch. No catch! FUMBLE! Notre Dame recovers... BUT THERE'S A FLAG
Eifert made two catches if you look at the repeat. There was no bobble and that was the initial call by the ref. Have to check if he controlled the ball or not.
3rd & 2 shotgun. Golson talking to line. EIFERT WITH A HOP AND CATCH!! No! They say incomplete pass. Didn't look like a bobble.
2nd & 2 Golson gets his wristband and is set behind center. FAKE! Incomplete pass to TE Eifert. Couldn't keep foot inbounds
1st & 10 OWN 25 pass to the left goes for eight
12:03 to go in the firs quarter--- Goldson and offense hit the field
Notre Dame to receive! TOUCHBACK!!!
TOUCHDOWN LACEY on the run! PAT GOOD!
2nd & 3 RIGHT UP THE GUT!! UN-STOPP-ABLE! Once he got into the secondary he went in untouched!
1st & 10 from ND's 27... Experience looks key in this one. OFFSIDES ND. 1st & 5 Run. Yeldon inside the 20 after gain of two
1st & 10 Lacey with a patient run POWERS THROUGH FIRST DOWN! FLAG! Facemask makes it a 26-yard gain. Fox called for the penalty
2nd & 9 heavy formation on the right. McCarron play action! Norwood with the diving grab! Close to midfield!
1st & 10 Crimson Tides's McCarron and offense hit the field--- Lacey runs it and it looks foolish. ND on the stop!
THE CROWD IS LOUD OOOOOOOH! From the one Jones. Takes it to the 18!
Kickoff in seconds! --- THE TEAMS HIT THE FIELD! THE FANS ON THEIR FEET!
Notre Dame are one of the biggest underdog in the history of the BCS National title
Coach Kelly believes the first two minutes are of this game. A football is tossed behind the coach and it looked like it was about to bop him on the head.
Alabama picks tails. It's heads. Irish defer. Alabama to receive.
Notre Dame enters----------- COIN FLIP!
HERE COMES THE CRIMSON TIDE!
Zac Brown Band just wrapped up the national anthem! Best rendition I've heard in the BCS Bowls
The bands played on the field. The fans are changing and Sun Life Stadium looks festive in green and red.
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The BCS National Championship between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Alabama Crimson Tide is about to kickoff and we have the live blog with play-by-play and scoring updates for all those fans who can't watch this largely anticipated game.
Here are the numbers and what this game means for each school this 2012 season.
For the Crimson Tide, the win would give them their third BCS title in four years, a feat that has only been accomplished twice in the history of the poll era since 1936.
Two more numbers to focus on, nine and eight. The Crimson Tide has won nine national championships since 1936 for first on the list. Who's in second place you wonder? Yup! You guessed it, Notre Dame with eight national championships.
So the math is easy, win today and the Fighting Irish tie Alabama for the most national titles in the country.
Another major accomplishment the Fighting Irish can achieve with a win is becoming the first team in the history of college football to win a national title when entering the season unranked.
Without a doubt, they surprised many.
Their defense is the best in college football leaving their offense with very little to do. Everett Golson, their quarterback, has 166 complete passes, 2,135 passing yards and 11 touchdowns. Their running game carries the offense as Theo Riddick rushed for 880 yards in the season scoring five touchdowns and Cierre Wood rushed for 740 yards and four touchdowns.
They will face another stingy defense in the Crimson Time. Trying to take advantage of defensive stops is the Alabama offense headed by A.J. McCarron who completed 191 passes, 2,660 passing yards and 26 touchdowns. Eddie Lacy rushed for 1,182 yards and 16 touchdowns while T.J. Yeldon had 1,000 yards on the dot with 11 touchdowns.
It will be a tough game to predict, but check out our own Matt Jessim's predictions for this one.
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