Love Named Semifinalist for Doak Walker Award – Notre Dame Athletics

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Junior running back Jeremiyah Love continues his impressive 2025 season by adding another national honor to his resume today, named a semifinalist for the Doak Walker Award, which honors college football’s top running back, the fourth-oldest college football award in the nation which honors the nation’s top college football player.  This is Love’s third national semifinalist honor, also named a semifinalist for the Walter Camp Player of the Year and the Maxwell Award. Notre Dame has had one Doak Walker finalist: TB Reggie Brooks (1992).  Love is part of a group of 10 semifinalists on the list.  This season, Love has posted 177 rushes for 1,135 yards and 14 touchdowns, adding 26 receptions for 274 yards and three touchdowns. He averages 6.4 yards per rush on the season. Already having eclipsed 1,000 rushing yards for the season, he’s just the sixth player in Notre Dame history to have multiple 1,000-yard rushing seasons and the first since Kyren Williams (2020, 2021). Love ranks third in the nation in rushing yards per game (113.5), third in total touchdowns (17) and third in yards from scrimmage (1,409). He is the only player in the nation to rank in the
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