Sure it does

Wonder if any of the Monks offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass while N.D. was at the Monastery?

Looked like Tejas handed it to the Irish. 7 giveaways...

Don't watch much college football huh?

Couldn't even beat OLE MISS. LMAO

@@kennethfutch5372 Would have in a rematch. Notre Dame was a.much better at.the end of.the season than at the first. They were a 3 touchdown or better of a team at the end of it compared.to the start.

How many college football teams have you seen?

@@90srule96 A WHOLE lot more than you going by your name, snowflake.

Very true they have to reverse the curse in big games.. they beat Bama in the sugar bowl and were always a force to be reckoned with.. they have Freeman now but this whole administration better be on board with winning and committed not just Freeman, if they hope to ever get to that mountain top again.

You're wrong. While the '78 Cotton Bowl wasn't a winner take all game as you stated, there wasn't any other undefeated teams that lost that day besides Texas. #2 Oklahoma, #3 Alabama, #4 Michigan, and #6 Arkansas all had 1 loss going into their New Years Day bowl games, with Alabama and Arkansas winning, and Oklahoma (who lost to Arkansas) and Michigan losing. Notre Dame was not clearly the best team of the 1977 season either, as Alabama was just as good as them, and quite frankly, any of the top 8 teams that year were very similar in strength.

@@jackprecip5389 My compliments on your knowledge. But the 1977 Fighting Irish were the Best team in college football. How you should know this is the way the Irish easily disposed of The Mighty Undefeated 1977 Longhorns, and their Legendary Heisman trophy winning running back Earl Campbell. The other way you should know is the Core players for the Irish in 77. Ken McAfee, Ross Browner, and The Great Joe Montana was as solid of a core as there was in College football in 77. No other team had a core as strong as the Irish in 77.

I was 12. I think ND was ranked 4th or 5th heading into the game. Texas was considered the best team in the country by far. After they won, I asked my Dad if the voters would jump ND over Alabama and another team I can't recall. He thought so because the Irish not only whooped the undefeated Longhorns, they did it in Texas. Had to wait two days for the voting before they announced ND as national champs. If the game had been closer, I don't think the Irish would have jumped over Alabama, but it was a total destruction.

@@jackprecip5389 Alabama beat USC by 1 point. ND beat them by 30. And don't bother trotting out Ole Miss, since Montana wasn't the QB until the next game. After that, Alabama would have gotten boat-raced by ND.

@@Necile2 You're displaying your ignorance. One of the first signs of a football neophyte is one who uses the A beat C by 30 points, B beat C by 1 point, so A would kill B. It's complete gibberish. Besides, USC played Alabama at home, and played Notre Dame on the road. USC stunk on the road, as they lost on the road to Cal and Washington later that year. To show an example of your flawed logic, since Notre Dame only beat Clemson by 4, and Pittsburgh beat Clemson by 31, then supposedly Pittsburgh would beat Notre Dame, yet they didn't, they lost 9-19, which means your banal math theory is useless, which I'm guessing is the case for most of your theories and opinions. In '77, Alabama and Notre Dame were both good football teams, and on a neutral field, if they played each other 20 times, I have no doubt both would win at least 7. If they played once? Who knows. It's usually turnovers and a few big plays that end up deciding games like that.

I think Campbell had at least one good run, maybe a couple. That QB was really screwing up.

To be fair, Devine got handed a championship caliber team when Ara retired. Look at the talent that was on this team, the starting seniors were all recruited and initially developed by Ara.

Yeah, that's what happens when you face a great Defensive Line with a bozo at quarterback, it's hard to find any holes. In the Cotton he played future pro's stacking the line with Randy McEachern at QB, and then went against the best pro D-Line in Pittsburgh with Dan Pastorini at QB. It would be nice to have seen him in a big game with a decent QB that could at least balance the offense a bit. Good 'ole Earl just took it in stride though, he was about a nice and positive a guy as you'd ever want to meet. Even with the failings in the big games, he had one heck of a football career. It took the top defenses playing stacked formations to stop him, everybody else he steamrolled over, around, and through them.

Could It be because he was playing Notre Dame?

He wasn't very good, Randy McEachern was 4rth string coming into the season, and by the time he became starter, he didn't have to do a whole lot but hand it to Campbell 30 times a game. He had a few good moments against Arkansas, but he wasn't much of a QB. He lost his job the following year, and then never played pro ball. He did marry a pretty Texas cheerleader though, and had a successful business, so in retrospect, he did a lot better than more talented QB's who spent 3 years in the pro's and ended up as junkies living under a bridge or felons doing 10 to 20.

I hate the Horns but that's BS about their schedule in '77. The sWc was stacked that year with texas knocking off a great Arkansas team, who'd go on to crush Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl and finished 3rd in the AP. A&M, Houston and Tech were also good that and year and Texas beat them all.

Akers was a train-wreck.

Jack Whittaker??

Do tell, just how did the NCAA do that?

@@mikebronicki6978 yep. Set it up for ND to play #1 Texas so IF they won both polls would vote for them to leap frog #2 Alabama. ND was#5.

I CAN'T STAND BAMA BUT THE TIDE DESERVED THE NUMBER 1 RANKING. OF COURSE BAMA DIDN'T DESERVE THE 73 NATTY.

@@randalldenison4628 It wasn’t possible for Texas to meet Alabama in a bowl game back in those days. Conference champions had bowl tie-ins back then. It was nothing at all like it is today or even 30 years ago. The SEC champion was always locked in to the Sugar Bowl and the Southwest Conference champs were always committed to the Cotton bowl. PAC 8 and Big 10 champs to the Rose Bowl and Big 8 winner to the Orange Bowl. No exceptions and no screw job. Just a “headline glamour matchup of the college football bowl season” and a total beat down of the number 1 team in the nation and the great Earl Campbell. And yes, Earl was otherworldly. The most entertaining back I’ve ever seen.

Consider it a trade for Bama winning in '73 despite losing to the Irish in the bowl. That was the last year votes for national champion were tallied prior to the bowl.