Notre Dame’s Theo Riddick (6) breaks out for a great run as BYU and Notre Dame play Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, in South Bend. The groups meet once more this season, in Las Vegas. Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information
BYU and Notre Dame haven’t met usually on the soccer area, however they’ll achieve this once more this Saturday when the 2 faculties face one another at a neutral-site location at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
Right here’s what has occurred between the Cougars and Preventing Irish in earlier matchups.
All-time historical past between BYU and Notre Dame soccer
Notre Dame leads the all-time sequence 6-2.
- The Cougars have received video games each in South Bend, Indiana (1994), and in Provo (2004), however general Notre Dame has dominated the sequence, with 4 of its six wins by 19 or extra factors.
- BYU and Notre Dame have met twice throughout the Cougars’ independence period, with the Preventing Irish profitable in 2012 and 2013 by scores of 17-14 and 23-13, respectively.
- Thrice, Notre Dame has scored 42 factors or extra in opposition to BYU, together with most not too long ago in 2005, when the Preventing Irish matched their largest margin of victory over the Cougars with a 49-23 victory.
- In BYU’s two wins, the Cougars held Notre Dame’s dashing recreation to manageable outcomes. In 1994, BYU had 4 sacks and gave up 112 dashing yards — most of that on a pair of runs of 41 and 37 yards — whereas in 2004, the Cougars held the Irish to 22 dashing yards, with a 0.5 per-carry common.
- This yr’s matchup is the primary time BYU and Notre Dame will meet on a neutral-site area.