Regular season ·
Notre Dame beat Virginia Tech
No. 14 Notre Dame5-132
Virginia Tech3-229Final
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
No. 14 Notre Dame beat Virginia Tech by 3 points.
How the game turned
Q4 0:17 Notre Dame 32, Virginia Tech 29
Notre Dame 67% to win
Doerer 48-yd field goal, Notre Dame goes ahead 32-29
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Big moments
- 1Q1 3:21 · Notre Dame 0, Virginia Tech 7Notre Dame's win chance fell from 41% to 33%.Blackshear 7-yd TD run, Virginia Tech goes ahead 7-0
- 2Q2 0:32 · Notre Dame 14, Virginia Tech 10Notre Dame's win chance rose from 48% to 55%.Buchner 8-yd TD pass to Williams, Notre Dame goes ahead 14-10
- 3Q3 8:53 · Notre Dame 14, Virginia Tech 16Romo 26-yd field goal, Virginia Tech goes ahead 16-14
- 4Q3 4:27 · Notre Dame 21, Virginia Tech 16Notre Dame's win chance rose from 48% to 71%.Williams 10-yd TD run, Notre Dame goes ahead 21-16
- 5Q3 0:50 · Notre Dame 21, Virginia Tech 22Notre Dame's win chance fell from 67% to 46%.Waller return TD, two-point try fails, Virginia Tech goes ahead 22-21
- 6Q4 2:26 · Notre Dame 29, Virginia Tech 29Notre Dame's win chance rose from 14% to 54%.Coan 4-yd TD pass to Davis, two-point try good, ties it 29-29
- 7Q4 0:17 · Notre Dame 32, Virginia Tech 29Notre Dame's win chance rose from 56% to 67%.Doerer 48-yd field goal, Notre Dame goes ahead 32-29
Notre Dame's lowest chance to win was 11 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 0:17 left in the 4th quarter, Notre Dame 32, Virginia Tech 29.
What happened next
Virginia Tech's next game: L 7-28 vs Pittsburgh, Oct 16
7 days laterNotre Dame's next game: W 31-16 vs USC, Oct 23
14 days 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.

