Notre Dame 36, Syracuse 3
And it wasn't even as close as the extremely lopsided score would suggest, plus Syracuse's one field goal came with ten seconds left, with their first-stringers working hard to score against Notre Dame's benchwarmers, some cheerleaders and a couple of senior citizens in the audience. (The bit about the cheerleaders and senior citizens might have been made up, but the rest is true.) Syracuse had looked very impressive going into this game, averaging 44 points a game and having one of the best ratios of turnovers exploited to turnovers committed in all of college football, but they were completely manhandled by Notre Dame today. Syracuse was #12, and maybe rightly so, but Notre Dame showed that there's a huge gap between #3 and #12.
Record so far: 11-0.
Next victim: USC.
Tune time!