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Instant recap: Stanford tops Notre Dame 38-36 on game-winning field goal from Conrad Ukropina

Sandip Srinivas

Desk Editor

By: Sandip Srinivas | Desk Editor

The kick is good.

The Legends Trophy came down to a Conrad Ukropina 45-yard field goal attempt. The senior kicker, who hadn’t even attempted a field goal all night, calmly lined up and kicked a beauty through the uprights to give Stanford a 38-36 win.

The No. 13 Cardinal (10-2, 8-1 Pac-12) defeated the No. 4 Fighting Irish (10-2) in one of the most exciting games at Stanford Stadium in recent memory.

It seemed over before that. Notre Dame quarterback DeShone Kizer scored on a 2-yard run with 30 seconds remaining to put Notre Dame up 36-35, but the 30 seconds was all that Kevin Hogan needed to lead his team down the field.

For Stanford, Hogan shined in the last home game of his collegiate career. The fifth-year senior passed for 269 yards and 4 touchdowns, and he made the big passes just when Stanford needed them. The game-winning field goal was set up by a 27-yard pass to Devon Cajuste, who totaled 125 total receiving yards in the game.

Kizer led a sensational offensive effort for Notre Dame, passing for 234 yards and 1 touchdown and rushing for 128 and another score. Freshman running back Josh Adams also tore apart the Cardinal, running or 168 yards and a touchdown. The Notre Dame offense averaged 8.9 yards per play and managed to drain almost enough time off the clock to seal the win.

 

Almost.

Contact Sandip Srinivas at sandips ‘at’ stanford.edu.

About Sandip Srinivas

Sandip Srinivas '18 is the Football Editor, a sports desk editor and a beat writer for men's basketball and football at The Stanford Daily. Sandip is a sophomore from Belmont, California that roots for the San Francisco Giants during even years and roots for Steph Curry year-round. He is majoring in Symbolic Systems and can be contacted via email at sandips 'at' stanford.edu.
  • Candid One

    SS, how is it that you chose to use a different ranking system than most of the mainstream sports media? You have LSJU as #13 and ND as #6, apparently from last week’s AP Top 25, while most others use their respective CFP rankings…LSJU at #9 and ND at #6. The national playoff conversation has rendered the AP and Coaches polls as late season trivia.

  • Winston Shi

    I actually agree 100% about this, but the copyeditors insist on using the AP poll. We used the AP during the BCS era too, for what it’s worth, so at least we’re being consistent.

    Using the AP Poll is somewhat justifiable in theory because the AP National Championship is a separate award, but a two-game playoff makes it all but impossible that a team with a legitimate claim to a national title can emerge from that gauntlet and not be the undisputed national champion.

    If we use the last split title as a guideline (2003), USC would be in the Playoff, first off. Second, if 2003 USC had still somehow been left out by the committee and yet LSU had beaten not just Oklahoma but also Michigan/Ohio State, they would have deserved the title over 2003 USC. It wouldn’t have been fair that USC, having been unjustly left out, could not prove that they were the most deserving team on the field, but LSU would still deserve the national title nevertheless – they’d done more to justify getting it.

    There will be no more split titles as long as the Playoff still exists in its present form, unless historically atrocious one-sided officiating is involved. And because of how the playoff works, the CFP ranking moves the AP, not the other way around.

    tl;dr: the CFP is king, use it

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