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NEW YORK -- Jeremiyah Love scored three touchdowns, tying a school record with his 11th straight game with a rushing TD, and No. 6 Notre Dame ended No. 18 Army's 13-game winning streak with a 49-14 victory on Saturday night at Yankee Stadium.
In a game scheduled as a 100th anniversary tribute to Notre Dame's "Four Horsemen," Love put on a pretty good one-man show. The sophomore had TD runs of 68 and 14 yards, finishing with 130 yards on seven carries, and leaped over a defender at the goal line to finish a 6-yard scoring pass from Riley Leonard.
Leonard threw for two TDs and Jadarian Price ran for two scores for the Irish (10-1), who won their ninth straight to improve their College Football Playoff chances. Notre Dame was No. 6 in those rankings this week and looks every bit like a national title contender, allowing 14 or fewer points in six straight games.
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Army quarterback Bryson Daily ran for 139 yards and both touchdowns, giving him 23 on the ground this season. The loss by the Black Knights (9-1) left No. 1 Oregon as the only unbeaten team in FBS. Army came in leading the nation with 334.9 yards rushing per game but managed only 207 against Notre Dame.
Notre Dame beat Army for the 16th straight time in the first matchup where both teams were ranked since 1958, the Black Knights' last victory. This meeting was scheduled to honor the 100th anniversary of Notre Dame's 1924 victory in New York at the Polo Grounds, when Grantland Rice began his story about the exploits of Harry Stuhldreher, Jim Crowley, Don Miller and Elmer Layden with one of the most famous openings in history, writing: "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again."
That quote lined the wall above Monument Park in the stadium's outfield, behind the end zone where Notre Dame took a 14-0 lead on TD passes by Leonard on its first two possessions. Army kept the ball for more than 7 1/2 minutes on its next drive while making it 14-7 on Daily's 4-yard run early in the second quarter, but the Irish went up by two TDs again on Love's 14-yard run that tied Wayne Bullock's record of 11 straight games with a rushing TD in 1973-74.
Notre Dame scored touchdowns on four of its six drives in the first half, then added another 10 seconds into the second half when Love went 68 yards on the first play to make it 35-7.
NO. 12 BOISE STATE 17, WYOMING 13: Ashton Jeanty rushed for 169 yards and a touchdown to lead Boise State to a road victory over Wyoming and a berth in the Mountain West Conference title game.
The Broncos (10-1, 7-0) will play in the conference championship game for the seventh time in the eight seasons, and kept their College Football Playoff hopes alive. Boise State was the provisional No. 4 seed in the playoff in this week's rankings.
Boise State finished the Mountain West unbeaten, extended its winning streak to nine games and beat Wyoming (2-9, 2-5) for the eighth straight time, dating to 2016.
Wyoming, which entered as a heavy underdog, gave the Broncos plenty of problems and held a 13-10 lead midway through the fourth quarter.
But Boise State's Jambres Dubar scored on a 2-yard run with just over five minutes left to play and the Broncos defense came up with one final stop to seal the win.
Boise State quarterback Maddux Madsen was 14 for 25 passing for 168 yards.
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NO. 24 UNLV 27, SAN JOSE STATE 16: Jai'Den Thomas ran for 135 yards and the go-ahead touchdown in the third quarter to help visiting UNLV keep its conference title hopes alive with a victory over San Jose State.
The Rebels (9-2, 5-1 Mountain West) survived on a rainy night that hindered both offenses to get their first win ever as a ranked team. UNLV lost to Syracuse earlier this season after getting into the AP poll for the first time in school history.
The win preserved the Rebels' hopes of returning to the Mountain West title game after losing to Boise State last season. UNLV still needs to win next week and hope Colorado State loses at least one more time to have a chance to get back into the title game.
San Jose State (6-5, 3-4) lost for the second straight week at home to a ranked team, having fallen 42-21 to No. 13 Boise State last week. The Spartans have lost 12 straight games against ranked opponents since beating Fresno State in 2013.
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