FOUCH COMMENT --- Ronnie Fouch met the media here real quickly after the game and said that while the Huskies knew the blitz was coming it was just hard to stop. "They did a good job of disguising their blitz,'' he said. "They did a good job of figuring out our slide protection and then going the opposite way.''

FEWEST YARDS FOR UW SINCE 2004 --- Huskies gained 113 in a 38-0 loss to USC in 2004.

IT'S OVER --- And that could apply to more things than one, though in this case, we're reffering to a beating that is thankfully over with UND winning 33-7. More later.

INTERESTING STAT ---- The radio guys just passed along a stat that UW is the only team in the country that has been outgained in every game this season.

BRUNS MAKES FIRST CATCH --- There's your UW highlight of the day as Cody Bruns makes his first catch of his career to get UW past midfield for the first time all night with 6:03 left. Bruns' catch was good for 21 yards.

NINE POSSESSIONS, NINE PUNTS FOR THE HUSKIES ---- The shutout is really in reach now as the Huskies are again punting.

IT'S NOW 34-0 --- And all that's left is to see if the Huskies can get past midfield, let alone score.

ATTENDANCE IS 70,437 --- That's officially a little shy of a sellout, a rare time when a Notre Dame game hasn't been sold out.

THIRD QUARTER ENDS WITH ND UP 27-0 --- The Irish have 373 yards to just 51 for the Huskies. The Husky record for fewest yards in a game is 61 against Cal in 1948.

EIGHT POSSESSIONS EIGHT PUNTS FOR UW --- And really nothing else to say.

IT'S NOW 27-0 --- The fake punt turned into just three points but the Irish now have a 27-0 lead. UW is in danger of its first home shutout since a 7-0 loss to Cal in 1976, the second year of the Don James regime.

IRISH TURN TO TRICKERY --- Notre Dame got 33 yards on a fake punt on a rush by upback Harrison Smith to keep its most recent drive alive. The Irish has 365 yards with just over five minutes left in the third quarter.

SEVEN POSSESSIONS, SEVEN PUNTS FOR HUSKIES --- The offensive woes continue for UW as the Huskies punt after their first series of the third quarter.

FREEMAN HURT --- Freeman is down and again injured after taking a hard hit on his first carry of the third quarter.

GARCIA BACK IN GAME --- Center Juan Garcia is back in the game on UW's first possession of the second half.

NOTRE DAME TAKES 24-0 LEAD --- The only question about this game now is whether the Huskies can find a way to score as the Irish drive 61 yards in five plays to start the second half to take a 24-0 lead.

SOME UGLY HALFTIME NUMBERS --- Ronnie Fouch was 1-9 passing for five yards in the first half. UW has had five games where it had zero passing yards, so that is not thought to be a record of any kind, though it could be the fewest in quite a few years.

UW has 33 yards rushing on 17 attempts with no run longer than eight yards.

UW also has six punts, though none longer than 43 and with an average of 34, one reason the Irish has had a field position edge the whole game.

Clausen is 9-21 for 134 yards for the Irish and ND has 104 yards rushing on 21 attempts.

WILLINGHAM HALFTIME COMMENTS --- Here are some of Tyrone Willingham's halftime radio comments:

On why he didn't call timeout at the end of the half: "We knew they would try to come up with something as soon as they stopped it, we anticipated they would not punt the football and they would take a chance to go for it .... I preferred to take my chances that way.''

On the passing offense: '''It's unbelievable and we've had opportunities to make plays but we've not cacught passes and our run game until the last series didn't show much promise. .... we've just got to struggled and get out of this fix we are in and get the run game going and catch the passes and we've got a chance.''

On the nickel defense: "We anticipated they might be in a no-huddle and five-receiver (sets) and we wanted to go with a nickle look, that's why we wanted to go with Chris Stevens. ... We've put too much pressure on our defense because we didn't get much going offensively.''

NOTRE DAME LEADS 17-0 AT HALFTIME --- The Irish have a 238-38 edge in yards at the half and 13 first downs to three for UW.

FREEMAN BACK, GARCIA OUT --- RB David Freeman saw his first action since the Stanford game on the last drive while Juan Garcia left for the final play with some sort of foot injury. He has been battling an ankle injury as well as recovering from the Lisfranc injury of last spring.

WILLINGHAM BOOED ON BIG SCREEN --- An advertisement on the Husky Stadium big screen featuring UW coach Tyrone Willingham was just greeted with some hefty boos during a time out as ND prepares for a field goal.

BRUNS SEEING ACTION --- Cody Bruns has seen a little action today and was just in the game in the slot on a second-down play on the last drive. UW is forced to punt again, however.

NOTRE DAME TAKES 17-0 LEAD --- The Husky defense is tightening just a bit, holding ND to a field goal on its last drive, though a couple bad passes by Jimmy Clausen also helped kill the drive. Still, a 28-yard field goal has ND ahead 17-0 with 11:10 left. UW has just 22 yards of offense.

UW HAS THREE DROPS --- A wide-open Devin Aguilar dropped a pass that would have gotten UW a first down and out of a hole near its own goal line on third down. Instead, Notre Dame now has the ball at UW's 25 after another short punt. Aguilar's drop was UW's third of the game. Terrance Dailey and Michael Gottlieb turning in the others.

HUSKIES GET THIRD PICK OF YEAR --- IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN A GOOD THING --- Notre Dame went for it on 4-18 at the UW 32 and the Huskies stopped it when Nate Williams caught a tipped pass in the air. Unfortunately, he was immediately knocked down by teammate Mesphin Forrester and UW now has the ball at its own one. That is just UW's third interception of the year and first since the first half of the BYU game.

FIRST QUARTER ENDS, DOMINATED BY NOTRE DAME --- It's 14-0 as the first quarter ends and Notre Dame is again driving. The Irish dominated every aspect of the quarter, outgaining UW 154-16, including 88-5 on the ground, and 65-11 through the air. Tripper Johnson appears to be the nickel safety with Aiyewa playing when the Huskies are in a 4-3.

MOSLEY IN FOR RICHARDSON --- ND has the ball after another failed drive by UW. Matt Mosley is now in at one CB spot on this drive taking the place of Quinton Richardson, who was beaten on a long completion on the last drive.

NOTRE DAME TAKES 14-0 LEAD --- The Irish took advantage of the interference penalty on Vonzell McDowell to continue their drive, scoring on a 21-yard reverse by Golden Tate to take a 14-0 lead with 7:48 left in the first quarter. Notre Dame has 128 yards to seven for UW. Tate showed more speed than any of the Huskies as he burst through a big hole into the end zone.

HUSKIES SHOWING MORE DIFFERENT LOOKS --- Looked like a close call on the pass interference that wiped out an interception by Nate Williams and the crowd has been booing heartily ever since. Of note on the play is that UW went with a zone blitz on the play, lining up Everrette Thompson on the center and then dropping him into coverage and bringing pressure from the outside. It seemed to confuse Clausen.

HUSKIES START IN NICKEL, IT DOES NO GOOD --- Notre Dame has an early 7-0 lead scoring on a 51-yard inside screen pass to Michael Floyd. UW blitzed on the play but ND had the perfect call and Floyd was gone after stepping through a tackle attempt by Nate Williams.

UW began the game in the nickel defense, anticipatinig a lot of one-back sets from Notre Dame. New starters to the defense as a result of that change were Chris Stevens as a rush end and Vonzell McDowell as an extra DB with Trenton Tuiasosopo and Kelemete out.

In another change, Tripper Johnson started at one safety spot in place of Victor Aiyewa, who had appeared to earn the starting spot last week. Uncertain if there was an injury to Aiyewa, who has struggled with a groin injury all season and said this week he isn't yet 100 percent, or simply a change for performance reasons.

If you didn't see the play, it looked exactly like TDs scored against UW this year by Oregon, Oklahoma and Oregon State.

CAPTAINS SET --- UW’s game captains were Juan Garcia, Daniel Te’o-Nesheim, Chris Stevens and Paul Homer.

KELEMETE QUESTIONABLE --- We'll start the game thread with a quick note that DT Senio Kelemete was injured during pre-game warmups and is questionable to play today. Kelemete suffered an specified injury to his left knee. That likely means another start for Johnie Kirton, who started in place of Kelemete last week when Kelemete was ill.