The football note's open pulls, settled

1957 – 2025

Texas A&M, 2025 — the believed score verifies: The football note carried the 2025 Texas A&M score as believed, not verified: 41–40. It verifies exactly. On September 13, 2025, at Notre Dame Stadium, No. 16 Texas A&M beat No. 8 Notre Dame 41–40 — Notre Dame ahead 40–34 with 2:53 to play after a botched snap spoiled its extra point, Texas A&M answering with an eleven-yard touchdown pass with thirteen seconds left and the extra point that made the margin. The score is stated as fact forward.

Michigan, 2019 — the missing final: The banked file carried the 2019 Michigan meeting and its winner without the score. On October 26, 2019, at Ann Arbor, No. 19 Michigan beat No. 8 Notre Dame 45–14, in driving rain — the final the file lacked, from the Associated Press account and Michigan's official box score, which agree.

Oklahoma, 1957 — a second source: Brennan's 7–0 at Oklahoma rested at season-summary level on a single source. The university's own athletics history now stands beside it: Notre Dame's record of the game gives the 7–0 upset in Norman on November 16, 1957 — the end of Oklahoma's 47-game winning streak — on Dick Lynch's fourth-down touchdown run with 3:50 to play and Bob Williams's interception in the Notre Dame end zone with a minute left. The date of the game is November 16, 1957.

Devine's reason: The note carried Dan Devine's stated reason for resigning as widely reported — his ill wife — but unverified. It verifies at its documented size. On August 15, 1980, Devine announced he would leave at the end of the 1980 season, saying he wanted to be able to spend more time with his wife. Joanne Devine's obituary in the South Bend Tribune (December 2000) records that she had suffered from multiple sclerosis for several years, eventually needing a wheelchair, and presents Devine's own assessment, in substance, that even so she remained the strength behind the family and behind him. The announced reason and the illness behind it are both on the record; the entry prints them at that size. Devine's words are summarized here, not quoted.

O'Leary's five days: The coaching table lists George O'Leary at 0–0 for 2001, a tenure the file did not narrate. The documented course: Notre Dame hired O'Leary from Georgia Tech on December 9, 2001. A newspaper's check with the University of New Hampshire — made while researching a feature on the new coach — found he had never played a game there, against his biography's claim of three football letters; asked whether anything else in the biography was wrong, he admitted the master's degree it claimed, from an institution styled NYU–Stony Brook, did not exist — he had taken two courses at Stony Brook and never graduated. He resigned on December 14, 2001, five days after his hiring, having coached no game. His released statement, summarized here rather than quoted, attributed the false items to a selfish and thoughtless act of many years before and said he had personally embarrassed Notre Dame, its alumni and fans. The 0–0 in the table is the whole of his Notre Dame coaching record, and it is now narrated at its size.

Carried as scope: Two items on the note's list are not evidence gaps and are closed here as scope: Gerry Faust and Heartley "Hunk" Anderson remain at coaching-table size in the football file by this section's own measure, and Knute Rockne's seasons are not printed year by year there. Nothing in the record reached contradicts either choice; they stand as this section's editorial measure, re-logged so the note's list closes honestly.

Sources:

1. Associated Press game account, September 13, 2025 (carried in CBS Sports' Gametracker) — Texas A&M 41, Notre Dame 40, at Notre Dame Stadium; the winning touchdown with thirteen seconds left.
2. Associated Press game account, October 26, 2019, and University of Michigan Athletics, official box score (mgoblue.com) — Michigan 45, Notre Dame 14, at Ann Arbor.
3. Fighting Irish (fightingirish.com), "One for the Record Books," September 27, 2013 — the November 16, 1957 game at Norman: Notre Dame 7, Oklahoma 0; Lynch's touchdown at 3:50; Williams's interception at 1:00.
4. The August 15, 1980 announcement record (Devine to leave at season's end, to spend more time with his wife); South Bend Tribune, obituary of Joanne Devine, December 22, 2000 — her multiple sclerosis of several years; his words as summarized in the entry.
5. New York Times, December 15, 2001, on O'Leary's resignation, with his released statement summarized in the entry; the Manchester Union Leader's University of New Hampshire check as reported in that coverage; O'Leary's own later account to ESPN (December 23, 2001) — the two courses at Stony Brook.