Facing a 3rd and 10 from their own one yard line, Notre Dame quarterback Tom Clements found reserve tight end Robin Weber for a first down that clinched the Sugar Bowl victory and national championship for Ara Parseghian and the Fighting Irish.
However, zero of those wins came against Notre Dame. The second of his four losses against the Irish, as Notre Dame jumped to a lead before halftime.
After playing to a tie in the first quarter, Notre Dame erupted for 21 points in eight minutes in the second quarter to take a lead. The Irish would allow just one touchdown the rest of the way, ultimately routing Texas as Notre Dame jumped from fifth to first in the final polls after a chaotic year of major bowl games.
Vagas Ferguson scored three times for Notre Dame as the Irish forced six Texas turnovers that afternoon. To this day it remains the greatest publicity that chicken soup ever received, Joe Montana exited the game while suffering in a bout with the flu. Trailing to start the fourth quarter, the Irish completed one of the most epic comebacks in bowl history as Steve Cichy returned a block punt 33 yards for the first Notre Dame touchdown of the quarter.
Despite Notre Dame out-gaining Georgia in the yards battle, miscues cost the Irish in their upset bid of the national champion Bulldogs who were led by freshman Herschel Walker who twice found the end zone. Only the second meeting ever between Notre Dame and Boston College at the time, the Irish scored three first half touchdowns as they jumped to a lead.
Boston College charged back as the Eagles were led by Doug Flutie, who got the Eagles within one in the third quarter. However, the Irish batted away the two-point conversion attempt as Notre Dame would ultimately hold on to a victory.
Tony Rice threw for a pair of scores, one to Raghib Ismail, to help secure the win to cap that epic season. Colorado entered the contest unbeaten at and one win away from a national championship but the Irish would play spoiler as after a scoreless first half, the Irish held Colorado to just one touchdown all day in the triumph. Notre Dame had played a significantly more impressive schedule than the champion Miami that season, but a blowout loss in the regular season finale at Miami kept the Irish from repeating as champions.
A year after upsetting No. The Irish instead did not end up scoring and no matter how many times you watch the video, one does not see an actual clip. Lou Holtz claimed that during their week in New Orleans that a waiter approached him and asked the difference between his Notre Dame team and Cheerios.
Notre Dame was and ranked fifth nationally before an epic collapse against Tennessee at home and a road loss to Penn State put the Irish at , before winning the regular season finale at Hawaii, Despite the regular season ending poorly, the Sugar Bowl upset of Florida gave Notre Dame faithful something sweet to enjoy that off-season. Leading entering the second half, the Irish had to attempt just three passes over the final 30 minutes as the running attack took over. First season: Penn State has improved from back-to-back seven-win seasons in and to consecutive win seasons in and , when the Nittany Lions finished inside the top 10 of the AP poll.
That stretch was just the third two-year span that Penn State won at least 10 games in consecutive years since joining the Big Ten. After winning nine games in , the Nittany Lions finished with a Cotton Bowl victory in They took a step back in , finishing All-time record: Win percentage:. Nebraska is trying to recapture the success it had in the s through the '90s, when the Huskers won five national championships and produced a pair of Heisman Trophy winners.
With the hiring of former national championship-winning quarterback Scott Frost as head coach, Nebraska appears to be on the right track. Frost led UCF to a record in The Huskers went only in , in and in Yale played its first football game at least seven years before every other school on this list. Oklahoma has averaged around 11 wins per season since and the Sooners have made four College Football Playoffs, reaffirming their status not just as a historically great program but one of the best this century.
Should Notre Dame ever claim all of these championship outright — as is their right to do. It also gives Notre Dame enough championships to outlast the Nick Saban era in Tuscaloosa, so the Irish remain king of titles for quite a time longer. Because none of this makes the Notre Dame football program better on the field in and beyond. Still, any title debated that dates before feels like a barbershop battle, and no one really wins in those.
The BCS helped set the College Football Playoff in motion, and even with computers and other pollsters still putting out their own rankings each year, no one other than the UCF Knights have disputed the results — and no one wants to join UCF in their bullshit.
Well speaking of UCF and their bullshit, the Notre Dame team could also claim a national championship.
The Colley Index ranked UCF the national champion in also a year that Alabama won the title and the same ranking system ranked the Irish 1 in Hell, you might even get physically beat up by Irish fans for saying it.
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