1974 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team

The season began as Notre Dame faced Georgia Tech on Monday night national television.

the Fighting Irish took the lead in the second quarter on a 22-yard Dave Reeve field goal and a 7-yard touchdown pass from Tom Clements to Pete Demmerle.

[clarification needed] [4] Notre Dame dropped four fumbles in the first half and Northwestern held the Irish to a 14–3 halftime lead.

Future All-America tight end Ken MacAfee (6'5" and 245 pounds0 made his freshman appearance.

Two scoring opportunities were wasted with loss of possession on downs and an ineligible receiver penalty.

In the first quarter, Kevin Nosbusch recovered a fumble caused by Jim Stock and Mike Fanning.

The Spartans drove 99 yards for their first touchdown, scored again, but Randy Payne intercepted a pass to kill their last good chance.

Notre Dame spotted Rice an early field goal and spent the rest of the game searching for their missing offense.

In the second quarter, the Fighting Irish were flagged for illegal procedure; a referee claimed the linemen's posteriors were not on the same horizontal plane, within an inch's variance.

Bullock scored from the six to lead Fighting Irish backs to 525 yards rushing and 30 first downs, a new record.

Miami was 4–1 and had stars Rubin Carter, Dennis Harrah, and Mike Archer but fell to Notre Dame.

Goodman fumbled a punt early in the game and Navy kicked a field goal.

The only decent Fighting Irish drive to that point ended in a missed field goal.

Notre Dame had stopped a Pitt scoring attempt after a blocked Irish punt—this proved to be the game-saver.

in the second half, Reeve booted a 33-yard field goal and Allocco hit Kevin Doherty with a 25-yard touchdown pass.

The Fighting Irish blew a 24–0 lead as USC scored 55 points in a strange game.

Drew Mahalic intercepted a Pat Haden pass, and Bullock scored from the two to end the short drive.

A long Clements pass was intercepted and returned 58 yards for the final touchdown, and a 55–24 win for USC.

Notre Dame bounced back from its stunning loss at USC to ruin Alabama's perfect season and national championship hopes, in Ara Parseghian's final game as coach.

Notre Dame rolled on a long drive, mostly running, and McLane scored from the nine in the second quarter.