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#2 ranked Clemson lead the entire game and handily beat #3 ranked Notre Dame 30-3 to qualify for the CFP National Championship game. Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence threw for 327 yards and 3 touchdowns, while the Tiger's defense only allowed Notre Dame's offense a lone field goal score.

Miami decided to go for 2 and the win instead of taking an extra point to tie the game 31-31 with 45 seconds remaining. The result was one of the more iconic defensive plays in Notre Dame football history, with Fighting Irish defender Pat Terrell batting down Steve Walsh's pass. Notre Dame won 31-30 and snapped Miami's 36 game regular season win streak. This game was also called the 'Catholics vs Convicts' game, a T-shirt slogan made up by two Notre Dame students that stuck.

Notre Dame's quarterback Joe Montana overcame the flu, extremely frigid weather and a 21-point 3rd quarter deficit to elevate his team to a highly unlikely 35-34 comeback win against Houston in the 1979 Cotton Bowl Classic in Dallas TX. Montana famously ate chicken soup during halftime to battle his flu symptoms which gave him enough energy to finish out the game. Thus this match up is known as the 'Chicken Soup Game'.

In a game that came to be known as the 'Chicken Soup Game', Notre Dame QB Joe Montana overcame the flu by eating a bowl of chicken soup at halftime and brought his team to a very improvable comeback win. Down 12-34 to Houston at the end of the 3rd quarter in the 1979 Cotton Bowl Classic in extremely frigid conditions, Montana and company reeled off 23 unanswered and found themselves to victory 35-34.