Irish 2010 Sun Bowl Champions!
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Notre Dame could be 1 and 10, go to a bowl, and still but 40 or 50 thousand fans in the stands. I hate them, but you got to give it to their fans ...
Syracuse will crush them in basketball. That will cheer me up!
Syracuse will crush them in basketball. That will cheer me up!
Congrats...
The question remains the same...Will USC gonna tap that butt come next year and the year after that and the year after that and the year after that. And then ol' Mayonnaise Mouth Charlie Weis will resurface.
You get the point.
The question remains the same...Will USC gonna tap that butt come next year and the year after that and the year after that and the year after that. And then ol' Mayonnaise Mouth Charlie Weis will resurface.
You get the point.
carocaniac
i hope this lighter works
That is because Notre Dame is a American institution. That's why. There is no other team in NCAA football who uses 24k gold in their helmets. Let's remind everyone some of the distinctions that Note Dame has:
Notre Dame has the 2nd highest winning percentage in NCAA history (.734), behind only Michigan (.737).[2][5][6][7] Notre Dame also has the fewest losses of any program (291) (minimum 700 games played).
As of the end of the 2009 football season, Notre Dame has the 3rd most wins in NCAA history (837), trailing only Michigan (878) and Texas (845).[7]
As of 2009, Notre Dame also has the fewest losses of any Division I-A program (291) (minimum 700 games played).[8]
Notre Dame has 102 winning seasons in 121 years of football, and only 13 losing seasons.[5]
The football program has the most individual Heisman trophy winners at seven (Ohio State has seven Heisman trophies that were won by six players).
As of 2009, Notre Dame has produced more All-Americans (99), consensus All-Americans (80) and unanimous All-Americans (31) in football than any other college program.[9][10]
Notre Dame is represented by 48 players and coaches in the College Football Hall of Fame, the most of any university.[11][12]
Ten former players are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, second only to USC(11). Notre Dame has produced the second largest number of players to go on to play in the National Football League of any program in the country. As of the 2010 NFL draft, 466 players have been drafted, second only to USC's 468.[13]
Helped by its status as a highly regarded academic institution (ranked 19th by U.S. News & World Report),[14] Notre Dame is second only to Nebraska in Academic All-Americans (43).
Since 1962, Notre Dame has graduated 98.74% of its football players in four years. As of 2006, only 13 football players in this time have left Notre Dame without finishing their degree requirements. Also of note is the 90% graduation rate of ND's African-American players (only Navy and Boston College have higher African American graduation rates).[15]
Notre Dame holds the NCAA record for Most consecutive wins over one opponent, beating the US Naval Academy (USNA) 43 times in a row before falling to them in 2007.[16]
The football program is also known for ending the Oklahoma Sooners' NCAA record winning streak of 47 games in 1957. Coincidentally, Oklahoma's 28-21 loss to Notre Dame to open the 1953 season was the last loss before the beginning of the streak.[17]
Notre Dame has had 12 undefeated seasons and 10 others with at most one loss or tie.[18]
Notre Dame is 3-3-1 in games where the national title winners from the previous two years have met in a regular season game. There have only been 12 of these games played in college football history, the most recent being Florida (2008 winner) vs. Alabama (2009 winner) in 2010. Notre Dame has played in 7 of the 12 games:
1945 - Army def. Notre Dame 48-0
1947 - Notre Dame def. Army 27-7
1968 - Notre Dame tie USC 21-21
1974 - USC def. Notre Dame 55-24
1978 - Notre Dame def. Pitt 26-17
1989 - Miami def. Notre Dame 27-10
1990 - Notre Dame def. Miami 29-20
The Bowl Championship Series' "Notre Dame rule" gives the university unique privileges in the postseason, due to its independent status. If Notre Dame finishes in the top 8 of BCS teams, it is automatically selected.[19] The university receives $4.5 million for playing in a BCS game and $1.3 million when it does not.[20] In essence, Notre Dame is treated like a conference team in either case.
Notre Dame is one of only four of the 120 Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) teams to have never played a Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) team since the divisions were created in 1978. The other three are UCLA, USC, and Washington.[21]
Notre Dame is one of only two Catholic universities that field a team in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the other being Boston College.
In closing, if you call yourself a "college football fan" you have to respect Notre Dame and their accomplishments on and off the field.
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carocaniac
i hope this lighter works
Thank you sir...
