Regular season ·

Notre Dame beat Stanford

No. 7 Stanford4-117
No. 8 Notre Dame5-038Final
Sat, Sep 29 · Notre Dame Stadium · Crowd 77,622 · 56°NBC

Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.

No. 8 Notre Dame beat No. 7 Stanford by 21 points.

How the game turned

Notre Dame aheadStanford aheadLow: 47%
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Q1 12:02 Notre Dame 0, Stanford 0

Notre Dame 53% to win

Jones run for no gain, turnover on downs

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 12:02 · Notre Dame 0, Stanford 0Notre Dame's win chance fell from 65% to 53%.Jones run for no gain, turnover on downs
  2. 2Q1 8:13 · Notre Dame 7, Stanford 0Notre Dame's win chance rose from 70% to 74%.Williams 45-yd TD run, Notre Dame goes ahead 7-0
  3. 3Q1 4:39 · Notre Dame 7, Stanford 7Notre Dame's win chance fell from 72% to 62%.Love 39-yd TD run, ties it 7-7
  4. 4Q1 0:09 · Notre Dame 14, Stanford 7Notre Dame's win chance rose from 66% to 75%.Book 6-yd TD pass to Weishar, Notre Dame goes ahead 14-7
  5. 5Q2 0:39 · Notre Dame 21, Stanford 14Notre Dame's win chance rose from 72% to 77%.Book 10-yd TD pass to Claypool, Notre Dame goes ahead 21-14

Notre Dame's lowest chance to win was 47 percent. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.

How the lead changed

Notre Dame took the lead for good with 0:39 left in the 2nd quarter, Notre Dame 21, Stanford 14.

It was Notre Dame's first win over Stanford since the 2014 season, after 3 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.

What happened next

  1. Notre Dame's next game: W 45-23 at Virginia Tech, Oct 6

    7 days later

  2. Stanford's next game: L 21-40 vs Utah, Oct 6

    7 days later

  3. The teams' next meeting after Sep 29, 2018: Notre Dame 45, Stanford 24, Nov 30, 2019

    about 14 months later

Related pages

Scores, dates and the stage: ESPN. Win chance: our curve from play-by-play; the turn is its largest one-play change that moved with the score.

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