Jeremiyah Love and No. 9 Notre Dame overwhelm No. 23 Pittsburgh in 37-15 victory

No. 9 Notre Dame extended its winning streak to 8 with a decisive 37-15 triumph implicit No. 23 Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH -- Jeremiyah Love ran for 147 yards and a score, Malachi Fields hauled successful a brace of touchdown passes and No. 9 Notre Dame breezed past No. 23 Pittsburgh 37-15 connected Saturday.

The Fighting Irish (8-2) person won 8 consecutive games by an mean of 26 points since their 0-2 start. Notre Dame apt needs to simply debar upset bids by Syracuse oregon Stanford to extremity the play to unafraid a spot successful the College Football Playoff.

Love gave his burgeoning Heisman Trophy run a boost by finishing with 167 yards of full offense, the item coming connected a 56-yard sprint to the extremity portion successful the archetypal 4th that included a rotation determination astatine midfield that near Pitt's Kavir Bains-Marquez grasping astatine air.

Notre Dame's Tae Johnson picked disconnected Heintschel connected the adjacent play from scrimmage and raced 48 yards to the extremity portion to springiness the Irish an aboriginal 14-point pb they ne'er squandered.

C.J. Carr threw for 212 yards with 2 interceptions and touchdown passes of 25 and 6 yards to Fields. The 6-foot-4 Fields made a leaping drawback astatine the extremity enactment to unafraid the archetypal people precocious successful the archetypal half, past efficaciously enactment the crippled retired of scope aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional by barrelling into the extremity portion against a crippled but ineffective Pitt defence that was physically overmatched astatine times.

It was overmuch the aforesaid connected the different broadside of the ball, arsenic Notre Dame kept Panthers existent freshman backmost Mason Heintschel successful check.

Pitt's emergence to adjacent the apical of the ACC standings began erstwhile Heintschel supplanted Eli Holstein to commencement October. Heintschel's awesome commencement deed its archetypal important velocity bump against an Irish defence that gave him small clip oregon abstraction to work.

Heintschel completed conscionable 16 of 33 passes for 126 yards with an interception portion getting sacked 4 times. He had a 2-point conversion effort precocious successful the 3rd 4th returned 100-plus yards the different mode by Irish information Adon Shuler to enactment Notre Dame up 30-9 and extremity immoderate distant accidental of a comeback aft a pick-6 by Pitt's Rasheem Biles had concisely fixed the Panthers a jolt.

Notre Dame: The Irish look to beryllium getting amended with each passing week. Save for immoderate questionable play-calling — Notre Dame turned it implicit connected downs astatine the Pitt 1 successful the archetypal fractional erstwhile the Irish opted to person Carr walk alternatively than manus the shot to the champion moving backmost successful the state — this 1 was ne'er successful doubt, conscionable similar astir of Notre Dame's erstwhile 7 victories. The Irish volition clasp dependable astatine worst and could tick up a spot oregon 2 successful the polls depending connected what happens elsewhere successful the country.

Pitt: The Panthers inactive person a changeable astatine reaching the ACC rubric crippled if they tin bushed No. 14 Georgia Tech and No. 16 Miami to extremity the regular season. Still, they were decidedly outclassed by the Irish, who outgained the Panthers 387-219 and bullied Pitt successful a mode it hasn't been bullied this year. Pitt’s quality successful the AP Top 25 and the CFP rankings figures to beryllium a cameo, though the Panthers volition person aggregate chances to gain their mode backmost successful implicit the adjacent 2 weeks.

Notre Dame: Hosts the Orange adjacent Saturday.

Pitt: Travels to Georgia Tech adjacent Saturday.

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