That was never more evident than in the first half after getting backed up to second and goal outside of the yard line as Book evaded Boston College defenders before connecting with Ben Skowronek on one of the three touchdown receptions for the tight end.
Book's performance highlights one of the most interesting wrinkles to the College Football Playoff race, which is a Notre Dame team that is hitting its peak offensively as the season turns to crowning a champion in the next two months. The ground game was always going to be the foundation of the way the Fighting Irish attacked on offense, but now we've got the emergence of game-changing pass catchers with Skowronek and wide receiver Avery Davis.
What we've seen from Book in the last two weeks is not the effort of a game-manager but of a game-winner. He's wiling to take chances in scoring position while trusting his own talents and the matchups for his receivers. Notre Dame's defense has ridden a bend-but-don't-break approach to great results over the last three seasons, and now it's complemented not by an offense that avoids mistakes, but one that can run up the score behind a great college quarterback.
Brian Kelly spoke for the last several weeks about how important it was for the team to "raise the level of compete," not just to battle a team with the talent and depth of the Tigers but to maintain that high level of play week after week in pursuit of a championship.
Winning that top-five showdown would be great "but if you lose to BC it doesn't mean anything," Kelly said going into the week of the Clemson game. It's clear that while the Tigers got the full attention of Notre Dame in the weeks leading up to last week's result, so did the potential letdown that was avoided on Saturday night.
CBS Sports was with you the entire way updating this story with the latest from the game. Keep it locked here for live updates, highlights and more on Saturday afternoon. Congratulations, Coach. GoIrish BeatEagles pic. From Alumni Stadium. Final score from the Holy War. Buy on Vivid Seats. L W Wake Forest. NC State. End of 4th Quarter. ND 29 22 BC. Chestnut Hill, MA. Line: ND Data is currently unavailable. Notre Dame. Associate head coach Jon Scheyer will take over head coaching duties while Krzyzewski is out.
Duke will be The On3 Consensus — a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies — has Montgomery as the No. He is also the top player from the state of Ohio. Former Northwestern, Clemson quarterback enters transfer portal Northwestern quarterback Hunter Johnson is now in search of his third college at which to play quarterback, per Matt Zenitz of On3.
He served as a captain for the Wildcats this year and completed 30 of his 43 pass attempts for yards and three scores before entering the transfer portal. Hear from the veteran lineman on why he's coming back to the Hilltop.
The Wolverines are looking to the transfer portal for help, and have zeroed in on a grad transfer. Even though the college football season just ended, polls for next year have already Auburn Tigers defensive lineman makes decision on future Another player has entered the transfer portal for the Auburn Tigers.
Former three-star prospect of the recruiting class, defensive lineman Daniel Foster-Allen has elected to move on from Auburn.
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