Less than four minutes in on back-to-back plays — one by the defense, one by the offense — Notre Dame punched college football’s 2024 Cinderella, or Cig-nerella, if you will, right in the kisser, ...
"Later in that game when we needed it, he didn't flinch," Payton said, via the team's website. "There's a maturity and a moxie about him, which I love. I think it's contagious to the team.