If anyone on offense got the game ball, it would have been Tony Rice. He was responsible for most of ND's offense in the game. ND had 253 yards of total offense -- Rice had 177 of them, including a team leading 86 yards rushing. Green rushed for 40 yards on 17 carries and had one reception for 5 yards. Rice was responsible for the two biggest offensive plays of the game -- a 55 yard pass to Rocket out of ND's endzone on ND's first play of the game, and a 65 yard TD run on an option play. Several guys on D had a claim to "game ball," including Stan Smagala who returned an INT for a TD.