Author: Tom Noie, South Bend Tribune

Notre Dame was supposed to be beyond what happened at home against Stanford. Instead of a fourth straight win, it was back to the drawing board.

There was no reason for Manti Te’o to let anyone outside his inner circle in, but he did Saturday back at Notre Dame, and it was pretty awesome

Ryan Ayers, a former Notre Dame men’s basketball assistant coach, was charged with three counts of voyeurism and one count of domestic battery.

Ian Book threw three touchdown passes and ran for two scores in his final home game, leading No. 2 Notre Dame past Syracuse 45-21.

Irish moved to 9-0 overall, 8-0 and still in sole possession of first place in the ACC, following a 31-17 victory against No. 23 North Carolina.