2007 Navy vs. Notre Dame football game

Notre Dame came into this annual game with 43 straight wins against Navy since the last loss against Heisman Trophy winner Roger Staubach in 1963.

[2] The 2007 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team began the season with a 33–3 loss to Georgia Tech.

[8] The Fighting Irish snapped their losing streak with a win at UCLA but then lost to Boston College and USC to fall to 1–7.

Losses against Rutgers, Ball State, Wake Forest, and Delaware put them 4–4 on the season.

Each team scored a pair of touchdowns in the second quarter, to give the Irish a 21–14 lead at halftime.

In the fourth quarter, Navy's Chris Kuhar-Pitters collected a fumble at the Notre Dame 16 yard line and ran it in for a touchdown.

The game eventually went to overtime,[10] with the aid of a questionable decision from Irish head coach Charlie Weis: With 45 seconds left in regulation, Notre Dame faced a fourth-and-8 on the Navy 24; instead of attempting a 41-yard field goal that could have won the game, Weis opted to go for the first down.

[10] NCAA rules at the time stipulated that, beginning with the third overtime, teams may not kick an extra point after making a touchdown; instead, they must go for a two-point conversion.

[12] The game ended the longest streak for most consecutive wins by one team over another in college football.

"[1] Weis, on the other-hand, was not bothered by being the coach of the team that allowed Navy to end the streak.

Temple had a 31-game losing streak to Penn State in a series played discontinuously since 1941, though it ended in 2015.