Laken Litman
College Football & Soccer Analyst
Nicole Giles couldn’t watch.
With 4:38 remaining in the Orange Bowl and Penn State leading Notre Dame 24-17 after consecutive touchdown drives, Fighting Irish quarterback Riley Leonard stepped back and found a wide-open Jaden Greathouse for a game-tying 54-yard score. On the play, Greathouse lined up in the slot, juked one defender to the ground, found himself alone, caught the pass, and made a second defender fall down before jogging into the end zone untouched.
Entering the game, Greathouse, a sophomore, had only caught 29 passes for 359 yards and a touchdown this season. In the College Football Playoff semifinal, he made seven catches for 105 yards and a touchdown, becoming the first Notre Dame wide receiver to have more than 100 receiving yards in a single game this season. Two of those catches came on the equalizing drive, including an 11-yarder to get out of a second-and-14 situation, and then one for 6 yards on the ensuing third-and-3.
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