Now that Noah Grubbs has gone from Notre Dame football commit to signee, he just had one more thing to take care of. Boy howdy did the 4-star quarterback take care of business.
Grubbs and his Lake Mary teammates were busy playing for the Florida Class 7A State Championship. Along the way to this game, the Rams have had plenty of late-game heroics from their star quarterback. However, nothing could have prepared anyone for the heroics that were shown off by multiple Lake Mary players on the game's snap.
The Rams' opponent, Vero Beach, which led 21-3 at halftime, was seeking its first FHSAA state championship since 1981. The Fighting Indians (14-1) led 27-19 and appeared to have the championship in hand after Jordan Crutchfield intercepted the Notre Dame signee in the final two minutes of the fourth quarter.
Unbelievable doesn’t begin to describe it. With the clock at zero and hope fading, Notre Dame commit Noah Grubbs heaved a desperate Hail Mary—and somehow, impossibly, it connected. A walk-off touchdown on the final play delivers Lake Mary its first-ever state title in the most… pic.twitter.com/zJZWout1aD
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A championship game ending that will be remembered for decades for Notre Dame signee Noah Grubbs
Vero Beach, however, ran backwards and then ran itself into a safety, while Lake Mary used timeouts to keep time on the clock down 27-21.
After a squib kick, Grubbs' Rams had time to run just one more play. That play was a 43-yard Hail Mary. Grubbs threw the pass downfield into a crowd, which was deflected into the waiting hands of Barrett Schulz. For a moment, it seemed like Vero Beach had Schulz stopped at the 2-yard line.
However, he had the presence of mind to hand it off to teammate Tavarius Brundidge Jr., who took it the rest of the way into the endzone for the tie with time expiring. The following extra point won the Rams the game, concluding the wildest ending to any of the FHSAA high school football finals.
It was indeed a heck of a way for Notre Dame's big quarterback signee in the 2026 class to close out his high school career. Now he can focus on showing that same sort of grit when he comes to South Bend.