The #18 AP-ranked Army Black Knights (9-1, 7-0 AAC) fell by a score of 49-14 at Yankee Stadium to the #6 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (10-1) on Saturday night.

QB Bryson Daily totaled 139 yards on the ground on 39 carries (3.6 avg.) while scoring two rushing touchdowns, giving him eight 100-yard games on the ground this season in nine games played, tying for the most 100-yard rushing games in a single-season in Army history.

Notre Dame totaled 462 yards of total offense, 130 on the ground from Sophomore RB Jeremiyah Love, who scored two touchdowns to power the Irish offensive attack.

Irish QB Riley Leonard passed an efficient 10-13 for 148 yards and two touchdowns.

Notre Dame won the coin toss and deferred to the second half. Army went three-and-out after three Bryson Daily runs for eight yards, punting from its own 34-yard line.

Notre Dame wasted no time on its opening drive of the game, marching five plays and 68 yards scoring on a 28-yard touchdown pass from QB Riley Leonard to WR Jordan Faison.

Army’s offense again went three-and-out as P James Wagenseller’s punt attempt was blocked by Notre Dame’s Bryce Young and the Fighting Irish recovered at the Army seven-yard line.

Notre Dame would score three plays later on a six-yard touchdown pass from Leonard to RB Jeremiyah Love to take a commanding 14-0 early in the first quarter.

Army began moving the football on its third drive which went into the second quarter, marching methodically on a 12-play, 75-yard drive absorbing 7:37 off the clock that was finished off by Daily’s 22nd rushing score of the season, from four yards out to cut into the deficit, 14-7. Army’s longest play from scrimmage on the drive was a pair of eight-yard runs from Daily.

Notre Dame moved quickly, having a first and goal from the Army five-yard line. However, the nation’s top red zone defense was up for the test, stopping four straight Irish runs including CB Jaydan Mayes stuffing a Jeremiyah Love fourth-and-goal rush attempt to force a turnover on downs.

The Army offense could not capitalize on the punt going three-and-out, yielding the ball back to Notre Dame.
The Irish would score three plays later on a 14-yard run by Love to retake a two-score lead, 21-7.

After forcing another three and out, the Irish got the ball back with just over two minutes remaining in the half, eventually having a first and goal from the one-yard line. Army’s goal line defense stuffed two runs up the middle from Leonard, before RB Jadarian Price found the end zone on third down with 26 seconds remaining which made it a 28-7 game.

Daily ran for a first down on Army’s opening play of the next drive, but the ball was punched out and recovered by Notre Dame with 19 seconds on the clock. The Irish settled for a 47-yard field goal attempt as time expired in the half, but the kick was no good and it remained 28-7 at the break.

Wasting no time coming out of the locker room, Jeremiyah Love took the handoff on the first play of the second half for a 68-yard touchdown to extend the Irish lead, 35-7.

Army’s Elo Modozie would block a Mitch Jeter field goal attempt from 30 yards away, recovered by Casey Larkin to halt an Irish scoring opportunity in the third quarter.

The Irish added another score late in the third quarter, a 10-yard touchdown run by RB Jadarian Price to extend the lead to 42-7.

In the fourth, Notre Dame scored again on a 58-yard run by Aneyas Williams to make the score, 49-7.
Army drove down on its final possession for a touchdown, with Daily finding paydirt from one yard out for his 23rd rushing touchdown of the season, making the final score 49-14.

GAME NOTES:

Army honored the 11th Airborne Division with a logo decal on the players helmets and coaches’ headsets. The 11th Airborne Division (“Arctic Angels”) is a United States Army combined forces between air assault infantry and airborne forces based in Alaska. This unit specializes in air assault and airborne operations, cold-weather warfare, combined arms, maneuver warfare, and urban warfare.

Saturday’s matchup was the 22nd college football game played at the current Yankee Stadium (2009-present), with Army appearing in four of those contests.

The matchup tonight between Army and Notre Dame is the first for Army in which both teams entered ranked since 9/26/2020, when No. 22-ranked Army lost to No. 14 Cincinnati, 24-10. Prior to that contest, the last time that Army played in a contest where both teams were ranked was in 1996 when 9-0 and No. 22-ranked Army fell to #19 Syracuse, 42-17.

Despite the loss to drop to 9-1, Army began the season 9-0 for only the seventh time in school history (1916, 1933, 1944, 1945, 1949, 1996 and 2024).

Army entered the game with an AP ranking of #18, the highest for Army since being 10th in October of 1962.

Army’s 13 game winning streak of 13 games came to an end with the defeat. It was the longest active streak nationally and it was Army’s longest winning streak since between the 1949-1950 seasons.

Army has already clinched a berth into the AAC championship game vs. Tulane. Army and Tulane will face off in the title game on Friday, Dec. 6 with the first seed and right to host the game still to be decided.
LB Elo Modozie blocked his second field goal of the season in the third quarter.

Both of Modozie’s blocked field goals were returned by Casey Larkin for over 25 yards.
Notre Dame leads the all-time series, 40-8-4.

Army has dropped its last 16 games vs. Notre Dame. Army’s last win over the Fighting Irish came 10/11/1958, a 14-2 Army win in South Bend, Ind.

Army and Notre Dame first met in 1913, a 35-13, Notre Dame win on the ground at West Point.

QB Bryson Daily’s 23 rushing touchdowns are 2nd most in the country, only four behind Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty (27).

Daily has rushed for 100 yards in eight games this season, tying for the most 100-yard games in a single-season in Army history with Mike Mayweather (1990).

After tonight’s totals, Daily has 1,201 rushing yards, the first Army rusher to eclipse 1,200+ yards since Ahmad Bradshaw (2017).

Daily has totaled eight multi-rushing touchdown performances this season and now has 10 for his career, tied for the second most by an Army rusher since 2000.

Daily (23) and RB Kanye Udoh (9) have combined for 32 rushing touchdowns with four games still to go. If they combine for 8 more TDs, there have only been 10 duos in college football that have combined for at least 39 touchdowns since 1956.