College Football Scoreboard - January 02, 2006
 
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Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Ohio State Buckeyes
  1st 2nd 3rd 4th      
#5 ND (9-3) 7 0 6 7   20 FINAL
#4 OSU (10-2) 7 14 3 10   34
January 2, 2006 - Sun Devil Stadium
Ohio State Buckeyes
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Scoring Summary
FIRST QUARTER ND OSU
TD 12:59 Darius Walker 20 yard TD run (D.J. Fitzpatrick Extra Point) 7 0
TD 10:02 Ted Ginn Jr. 56 yard TD pass from Troy Smith (Josh Huston Extra Point) 7 7
SECOND QUARTER ND OSU
TD 14:16 Ted Ginn Jr. 68 yard TD run (Josh Huston Extra Point) 7 14
TD 2:21 Santonio Holmes 85 yard TD pass from Troy Smith (Josh Huston Extra Point) 7 21
THIRD QUARTER ND OSU
TD 4:25 Darius Walker 10 yard TD run (D.J. Fitzpatrick Kick Failed) 13 21
FG 2:20 Josh Huston 40 yard field goal 13 24
FOURTH QUARTER ND OSU
FG 10:12 Josh Huston 26 yard field goal 13 27
TD 5:27 Darius Walker 3 yard TD run (D.J. Fitzpatrick Extra Point) 20 27
TD 2:18 Antonio Pittman 60 yard TD run (Josh Huston Extra Point) 20 34
Team Stat Comparison
 
1st Downs 22 27
3rd down efficiency
 8-16 8-12
4th down efficiency
 1-2 0-0
Total Yards 354 619
Passing 294 340
Comp-Att
 29-45 19-28
Yards per pass
 5.8 11.3
Rushing 60 279
Rushing Attempts
 28 36
Yards per rush
 2.1 7.8
Penalties 6-48 6-39
Turnovers 0 2
Fumbles lost
 0 2
Interceptions thrown
 0 0
Notre Dame Passing
  C/ATT YDS AVG TD INT
Brady Quinn 29/45 294 6.5 0 0
Team 29/45 294 5.8 -- --
Ohio State Passing
  C/ATT YDS AVG TD INT
Troy Smith 19/28 340 12.1 2 0
Team 19/28 340 11.3 -- --
Notre Dame Rushing
  CAR YDS AVG TD LG
Darius Walker 16 91 5.7 3 20
Asaph Schwapp 2 5 2.5 0 3
Brady Quinn 10 -36 -3.6 0 5
Team 28 60 2.1 -- --
Ohio State Rushing
  CAR YDS AVG TD LG
Antonio Pittman 21 138 6.6 1 60
Ted Ginn Jr. 2 73 36.5 1 68
Troy Smith 13 68 5.2 0 15
Team 36 279 7.8 -- --
Notre Dame Receiving
  REC YDS AVG TD LG
Maurice Stovall 9 126 14.0 0 25
Darius Walker 7 37 5.3 0 14
Jeff Samardzija 6 56 9.3 0 27
Matt Shelton 5 63 12.6 0 30
Anthony Fasano 2 12 6.0 0 8
Team 29 294 5.8 -- --
Ohio State Receiving
  REC YDS AVG TD LG
Ted Ginn Jr. 8 164 20.5 1 56
Santonio Holmes 5 126 25.2 1 85
Roy Hall 2 22 11.0 0 17
Antonio Pittman 2 6 3.0 0 10
Anthony Gonzalez 1 15 15.0 0 15
Marcel Frost 1 7 7.0 0 7
Team 19 340 11.3 -- --
Notre Dame Kickoff Returns
  NO YDS AVG LG TD
D.J. Hord 1 13 13.0 13 0
Asaph Schwapp 1 10 10.0 10 0
Team 2 23 11.5 -- --
Ohio State Kickoff Returns
  NO YDS AVG LG TD
Santonio Holmes 3 48 16.0 21 0
Team 3 48 16.0 -- --
Notre Dame Punt Returns
  NO YDS AVG LG TD
Tom Zbikowski 1 0 0.0 0 0
Team 1 0 0.0 -- --
Ohio State Punt Returns
  NO YDS AVG LG TD
Ted Ginn Jr. 2 21 10.5 15 0
Team 2 21 10.5 -- --
Notre Dame Punting
  NO YDS AVG LG
D.J. Fitzpatrick 6 257 42.8 48
Team 6 257 42.8 --
Ohio State Punting
  NO YDS AVG LG
A.J. Trapasso 1 40 40 40
Team 1 40 40.0 --
 excerpted from espn.com