Navy 28 Notre Dame 27

With just over 7 minutes remaining and ND at the Navy 14 yard line staring at 4th and 4 and losing 28-24 what would you do?

Remember ND has a giant non blocking line and Kizer can be wobbly throwing short. If you kick the FG you are still one point behind and you might not get the ball back, but then again you might get the onside kick (yuk) and merely get your TD or FG then. What would you do if you were Kelly? Well he blew this big time.

He got the FG but no onside kick, but he still had 3 time outs and he had Kizer. He should have gone for the 1st down running Kizer. Even if he didn’t make it they had Navy on their own 14, dangerous territory. All you need then is one 4 and out and you have much better field position, always better to have a short field and Navy would have had to play conservative.

So as it plays out Navy put on a very gutsy performance, with some clutch play calling and execution, bleeds the clock out and wins the game.

Navy QB Will Worth ran for 175 yard and was clutch all game. Yeah, he really is a gamer as is the whole Navy team and they once again showed real time grit. ND’s big DL is basically worthless and as I predicted Jarron Jones hardly played.

To top it off ND has a bunch of clownish players on the side line waving towels and dancing around even when Navy scores. That’s not showing they are jazzed it is just showing basically an I don’t care mentality.

Navy totaled 320 yards, kept the ball and befuddled the ND defense. They deserved this win and ND deserved to lose.

Here are the highlights and post game Brian Kelly press conference: