(MCT) — SOUTH BEND, Ind. — As he recalled his satisfaction with both the scope and timing of the first-half fireworks show Saturday, Everett Golson lamented the one misfire: An off-the-back-foot, into-double-coverage, jump-ball-to-a-pint-sized receiver throw that, go figure, wound up in the wrong hands.

“Talk about that interception,” Notre Dame’s sophomore quarterback said. “It was a terrible decision, really terrible decision. I kind of came to the line and looked like a rookie a little bit.”