The Associated Press national player of the week in football for Week 8 of the season:

Love rushed for a career-high 228 yards and a touchdown in the Fighting Irish’s 34-24 win over Southern California.

Love’s total was the sixth-highest on the Notre Dame all-time list, and he became the 14th player in program history to run for over 200 yards while leading a rushing attack that accounted for 306 of the offense’s 442 total yards. He averaged 9.6 yards per carry on 24 attempts.

No player for the Irish had ever run for so many yards in the 512 games played at Notre Dame Stadium, which opened in 1930.

Love’s 134 first-half rushing yards were the most in the opening half for Notre Dame since Julius Jones’ 171 against Stanford in 2003.

Arizona State QB Sam Leavitt returned from injury to

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