These were the glory days of Notre Dame football. I truly understand why my dad is such a big fan after watching many of these late 80’s early 90’s games. This team has so much history.

I really miss football from this era. Two talented, well-coached programs with physical offenses and defenses going after each other. The play calling had evolved enough by this time that passing attacks were dangerous, but running the ball, controlling the line of scrimmage and field position were the best ways to win. And this - a 28-24 come from behind win - was the definition of a good game in the 1980's and 1990's. Plus, there's no apparel war, unless you consider whether or not your team wore Russell Athletic, like Michigan, or Champion, like Notre Dame. I miss these days, except I do love High Definition broadcasts of today.

Just one game of many why I fell in love with ND football 🏈 loved the backfield of culver,brooks and waters,favorite backfield of all time of any team in history.love ND football 🏈 GO IRISH ☘️

What a game. I remember it like it was yesterday. Watched the whole thing on TV with my Dad through every excruciating minute. Both solid ground teams in a hard-fought battle, tons of running yards, grinding out short-yardage first-downs, huge tackles, key interceptions. Love hearing the names of my childhood again - Mirer, Watters, Ismail, Brooks, Zorich, Stonebreaker, Culver, other Brooks, Brown, DuBose, Jarrell, Hentrich. Rick Mirer was just so steady - a natural winner. Even after that killer 4th-Q interception he just hung in there and led one of the all-time great comeback wins for the Irish. Many thanks for the upload!

one thing i loved about Holtz era ND is how guys played different positions - Watters and Ismail played RB and WR, Reggie Brooks and Jeff Burris played RB and DB, Andy Heck moved from TE to RT as a senior. Bob Dahl played OL and DL.

Rest In Peace Mr an Mrs Rodney Culver!

The 1990 Irish are still the best 3-loss team I have ever seen in 40 years of watching college football. Played a schedule with 7 of the top 15 teams and were 3 plays from going undefeated: Derek Brown dropped the winning TD pass on the final play against Stanford, Penn State beat them with a field goal at the buzzer and the BS clipping call versus Colorado in the Orange Bowl.

Thank you for editing and uploading. This was the game that got me hooked on Notre Dame football. Before this year, I didn't really care much about football. But this night, my dad allowed me to stay up late to watch this. And I was hooked.

Thank you so much bro... These early to mid 90s games bring back so many memories ✊🏿💯

Ricky Watters and the Rocket !!... Badass

Nd and Michigan have had some real wars over the decades , nd fan. Holtz really brought back toughness and physical play which was missing in Faust years

@32:20 Bills assistant scouting director Lake Dawson with one of the great plays in ND-Michigan history. Down 10, 3rd and 15, ND on the ropes.

This is back when well-timed draw plays were a thing of great beauty. ND would put anyone in that backfield and it usually worked.

I vividly remember watching this game. There was this girl I knew from my neighborhood in southwest Detroit who had moved to Ionia, Michigan. I was a junior at Michigan State and she came over for the weekend. I hadn't seen her in about 4 years or so. She was a Notre Dame fan and we watched the game together with a few of my roommates at the house we rented by Dooley's in downtown East Lansing. A week later she came back and somehow I scored her a ticket for the Notre Dame vs MSU game. Notre Dame won that game on a miracle. Fondle Mammaries of those times. Anyway, this ND team was STACKED and this was a donnybrook of a game. The hatred for michigan is very real at MSU so we were all cheering for ND that night, since ND helped MSU get into the Big Ten way back when by putting us on their yearly schedule. The presidents of both schools were good friends and that gesture gave MSU legitimacy during a time when michigan would do everything it could to sabotage MSU.

The game that made me a die-hard Domer for life. RIP Rodney Culver... and Demetrius Dubose (although he died while trying to cripple a pair of police officers).

Reggie Brooks with the game clinching INT - two years later he'd score the "unconscious touchdown" in the infamous UM-ND 17-17 tie.

Thanks for posting. Great memories.

Video footage of this game was used in the 1997 action movie "Air Force One'

Oh yeah, '87, '88,' 89, '90 - the awesome streak!

Rodney Culver was great in this game!

I first saw this during the movie Air Force One. Okay, replayed in watching that movie.

The amount of players in this game who eventually went on to play in the NFL is absurd. I count 5 players on each teams offense alone (UM: Grbac, Bunch, Howard, Everett, Alexander. ND: Mirer, Watters, Culver, Ismail, Brown)

Mercy there were a lot of stars out that night!

This was a really good game, despite Michigan losing. We didn't sit in our assigned seats, but the ND student section instead. Holy shit, what a scene! Hands down the wildest student section (at least that night) of all. For context, ive been to OSU and MSU many times for Michigan games and Penn State once. MSU atmosphere was tacky and not very good, OSU and PSU were better than that, and the atmosphere at ND was the best of the road venues for Michigan.

On PAPER, this was Lou Holtz’s best team he had. To ME, the 1993 team that dog walked Florida State was the best team he ever had. Results wise, the 1988 team is obviously his best team. How Holtz only won one championship with probably the best talent in the nation for six years is beyond me.

I’ll watch this over the shit they throw out today. College and Pro football.

I remember watching this game as I was wasting my time in the SAE house in Tuscaloosa, AL in the fall of 1990. Going to the University of Alabama was the worst mistake of my life...should have stayed in South Carolina.

Don't like either team, though I like Lou Holtz. Tremendous game in any case. Thanks for posting. Not many teams have pulled off 1990 ND's feat of being ranked #1 twice and then losing it twice.

Best lighting ever

I remember watching this game live🏈 Notre Dame was good enough that year to have been National champs if not for choking against Stanford,Penn State,and against Colorado in the Orange bowl SMH

This was a great game, my daughter is very good friends with Tony Brooks daughter.

The first of many choke jobs by Moeller. They had ND dead to rights in this one and they completely gacked it up in the fourth quarter. They did it again two years later.

Was was 1st or 2nd all American as a sophmodet. Got arrested for possession of pot. Kicked off team. Student have th own board? That determine if the fellow students should be expelled. He had to miss his jr. Year came back but was never the same. Kid was a natural linebacker. P!us had a few nem

Brooke,culver,the rockets. Why are you not pounding the ball. If in recall Bettie is sitting on the bench

Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da....da,da....da, da, da, da...🍀☘️🍀😊,,

That number 3 Jersey belongs to Joe Montana.....PERIOD.

Rick Mirer....the darling of Seattle!! What a bust!!!!!

Is that Jim Nantz announcing

Absolute classic of men. Too bad its full of soft flakes now.

How about some crowd control in the end zones?

Somebody remind me of why Stonebreaker was a linebacker at Notre Dame

Michigan losing a big game on the road, weird.

RiP Demetrius Dubose

Michigan is almost ALWAYS overrated.

a nail biter

culver killed in plane crash

thats when nd got 5 star recruits----i don;t think they will ever win it all again......good kids but not great athletes....

Michigan's quarterback was horrible Michigan was kicking Notre Dame's ass

Derrick Alexander was a better receiver than Desmond Howard

Zzzz😎

Both QB’s were ass.