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====Notre Dame====
[[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|Notre Dame]] defeated [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football|Georgia Tech]] 69–14 in 1977. The Fighting Irish led 21–7 at halftime but scored 21 points in the third quarter and 27 in the fourth. Only a missed extra point after ND's eighth touchdown kept the Irish from scoring 70 points for the first time since 1932 and only the second time in [[Notre Dame Stadium]] history. After ND took a 62–7 lead, Georgia Tech scored its only second half points on a kickoff return for a touchdown by [[Eddie Lee Ivery]]; the Irish would not surrender another kickoff return for a touchdown until 21 years later, against [[Kevin Faulk]] and [[LSU Tigers football|LSU]] in 1998. The blowout was payback for a 23–14 upset victory by Georgia Tech over Notre Dame in 1976, after which Yellow Jacket players were quoted as deriding the Fighting Irish as fat and slow. There also was bad blood between ND coach [[Dan Devine]] and GT coach [[Pepper Rodgers]], dating back to the days when they coached arch-rivals [[Missouri Tigers football|Missouri]] and [[Kansas Jayhawks football|Kansas]], respectively; Devine's Tigers had defeated Rodgers's Jayhawks 69–21 in the 1969 season finale in Lawrence. The 1977 humiliation of Georgia Tech did not impact Notre Dame's poll standing; they remained No. 5 in the AP poll—but the Fighting Irish won the rest of their games to finish 11–1 and win the [[1977 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|1977 national championship]].

Notre Dame defeated [[Boston College Eagles football|Boston College]] 54–7 in a 1992 game where Fighting Irish coach [[Lou Holtz]] called a fake punt on the first series of the third quarter, with his team already possessing an enormous (albeit not technically insurmountable) 37–0 lead. A year later, Boston College would upset Notre Dame 41–39 in the final regular season game of the year, knocking the Fighting Irish from 1st to 4th in the AP poll and paving the way for [[Florida State Seminoles football|Florida State]] to be voted national champions.

While playing at longtime rival [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]] in 2003, Notre Dame head coach [[Tyrone Willingham]] allowed his punter to call a fake punt in response to a punt block read while the Fighting Irish led 57–7 late in the fourth quarter.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/09/spt_FBCnotebook.html |title=Irish's fake punt in rout still gnaws at Cardinal |date=October 9, 2004  |work=cincinnati.com (from Associated Press)<!-- Blocked from archive -->}}</ref> Willingham was formerly head coach at Stanford.