SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Texas A&M rearranged some furniture Saturday night at Notre Dame Stadium, starting with a chair coach Mike Elko tossed while lighting into the defense after a sluggish start.

"I don't know what happened to the chair, but it probably didn't survive," Elko said.

Elko's team proved much more resilient against the type of team to which it typically wilts. Texas A&M erased five deficits to stun No. 8 Notre Dame 41-40 , recording its first road win against an AP top-10 opponent since 2014 at Auburn, and its first road triumph against an AP top-10 nonleague opponent since 1979 (No. 6 Penn State).

The 16th-ranked Aggies did so in unlikely fashion, overcoming repeated mistakes -- a punt blocked and returned for a touchdown, Marcel Reed 's interception, shoddy third-do

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