By JOHN P. WISE
One Great Season
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- My week in South Bend has come to a close, and it ended on a great day.
Under sunny skies, I made some new friends at a very lively tailgate party for several hours, then took my $100 scalped ticket to the 11th row behind the north end zone -- with Touchdown Jesus at my back -- and watched an exciting game between two teams trying to be better than mediocre.
Neither Notre Dame nor Michigan State was excellent Saturday, but each showed flashes good enough to win. The Irish got a late touchdown, a picture of which you can see below, then stopped a Spartan drive with a red-zone interception with less than a minute left.
To see the day in pictures, click the picture of Golden Tate catching the game-winning touchdown pass below. And PS, I have to check out of the hotel pretty soon, so I'll add captions maybe later tonight: