Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love wins the Doak Walker Award

Jeremiyah Love Wins 2025 Doak Walker Award

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Junior operating again Jeremiyah Love has been named the winner of the 2025 Doak Walker Award, given to the highest operating again in faculty soccer.

Love is Notre Dame’s first-ever winner of the Doak Walker Award. He was the second finalist in program historical past, becoming a member of TB Reggie Brooks (1992). Love can also be a nationwide finalist for the Heisman Trophy, the Walter Camp Participant of the 12 months and the Maxwell Award. He was the 2025 recipient of the Disney Spirit Award, honoring probably the most inspirational determine in faculty soccer.

This season, Love posted 199 rushes for 1,372 yards and 18 touchdowns, including 27 receptions for 280 yards and three touchdowns. He averaged 6.9 yards per rush on the season. Much more spectacular, he did all of it whereas sharing a backfield with fellow operating again Jadarian Value, who himself totaled 113 rushes for 674 yards and 11 touchdowns.

Six FBS gamers rushed for 1,300 yards in the course of the 2025 common season. Love is the one participant on that record who shares the backfield with one other operating again who has additionally rushed for at the very least 600 yards this season.

He was the one participant within the nation to rank within the prime three in scoring, complete touchdowns and yards from scrimmage to conclude the common season.

Love was the one participant within the nation to each personal greater than 1,100 dashing yards on the season and common 6.6 or extra yards per carry.

On the finish of the common season, Love continued to rank as one of the crucial excellent gamers in faculty soccer, rating second nationally in scoring (10.5), second in complete factors (126), second in complete touchdowns (21) third in dashing touchdowns (18), fourth in dashing yards (1,372), fifth in dashing yards per recreation (114.3), fifth in yards per carry (6.89) and fifth in all-purpose yards (137.67).

Love posted eight carries for 171 yards and three touchdowns within the 70-7 win over Syracuse, averaging 21.4 yards per carry. He’s simply the third participant since 1996 to have 170 or extra dashing yards and three touchdowns on eight carries or much less (Clyde Edwards-Helaire, 11/23/19 vs. Arkansas and Desmond Ridder, 10/24/20 vs. SMU).

In Notre Dame’s 49-20 win over Stanford, Love rushed for a landing on Notre Dame’s opening drive, making him Notre Dame’s single-season chief in complete touchdowns (21), surpassing the legendary Jerome Bettis’ 20 in 1991. The dashing landing was additionally Love’s 18th of the season on the bottom, tying Audric Estimé (2023) for many dashing touchdowns in a single season in Notre Dame historical past. He’s the primary participant in program historical past to have a number of seasons with 17 or extra dashing touchdowns.

This season, Love was named the Related Press Nationwide Participant of the Week and the Doak Walker Nationwide Working Again of the Week for his spectacular efficiency towards No. 20 USC. Love racked up 228 dashing yards on 24 carries to common 9.5 yards per carry in a 34-24 win over USC within the Jeweled Shillelagh rivalry contest. The 228 dashing yards Love put up towards USC are probably the most for a Notre Dame participant in a single recreation in Notre Dame Stadium’s 513-game historical past.

Love grew to become the primary participant in program historical past to gather two 90-yard dashing touchdowns in a profession with a 98-yard effort towards Indiana within the Faculty Soccer Playoff in 2024 and a 94-yard rating at Boston Faculty in 2025.