On September 3rd, Mark May of "College Game Day", an alleged expert, predicted that the University of Notre Dame football team would be either 1-5 or 0-6 after their first half dozen games. Well, with the team at 4-1 and ranked in the top ten, this guy either needs a new profession, or a new crystal ball.
The Fightin' Irish are back, going into today's much-anticipated tilt against the two-time defending national champion USC Trojans, who are currently ranked #1 in the nation and winners of 27 straight games.
In this great rivalry, the Trojans are 4-0 when coming into the game ranked #1. However, the Irish lead the overall series 42-29-5, and the school has one of the most storied streak-ending histories in all of college sports.
In 1957, it was the Irish who ended Oklahoma's 57-game winning streak, longest in college football history.
In 1974, the Irish basketball squad stopped the most storied streak in all of college sports history, UCLA's 88-game winning streak.
In 1988, in the famous "Catholics vs. Convicts" football game, the Irish halted Miami's 36-game streak with an epic 31-30 victory.
In both '94 and early this year, the ND women got in on the act, halting North Carolina's longest-ever women's soccer win streak at 92 games, and UConn's women's basketball team's 112-game home winning streak.
Who knows what will happen today, but the stage once again seems set for the Irish football squad to "Wake Up the Echoes".
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In one of the greatest college football games ever played, the Irish bowed to the Trojans by a final of 34-31 on a touchdown with 3 seconds remaining. Charlie Weisz and his crew, however, have definitely proven that the echoes are awake in the gloamin'.
Meanwhile, combined with the thrilling final play ending to the Michigan-Penn State game, that had to be the best TV half hour of college football that I have ever witnessed.
Too bad the two clubs I was rooting for came out on the short end, but it was still hard to feel too bad...the endings were that thrilling.
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