In the 1980s and 1990s FSU, Miami (FL) and ND were not afraid to play anybody. Kudos to all three schools. This era may never be seen again.

I am a noles fan and this is one of the greatest games in college football history. Despite us losing nothing but respect to notre dame.

1990s was a very good era for college football

I could never forget this game. Saturday afternoon my parents were out of town or gone doing whatever. So I was able to watch the entire game on the big screen tv in the den lol. Man I was so hype. Huge! Huge! ND fan! This was a game for the ages.

That Bob Costas intro I remember sending chills. I remember sitting in my apartment in Atlanta and instantly being transported back to chilly fall North Jersey fall afternoons with leaves on the ground and hardcore football games. NBC hit the bullseye with that one...

I was 11 years old and still remember this game like it was yesterday. The anticipation leading up with the bye week as a 5th grader was like waiting for Christmas on December 1st. I was just old enough to reasonably remember the Miami and WVU games in 1988/89 but in truth the FSU game in 1993 is still to this day the biggest ND game of my lifetime that has full context. The BC loss the following week still breaks my heart to this day. 27 years later and I'm not sure if the program has really overcome that missed opportunity. I got home just in time to see the final 5 minutes of the loss after attending college football's most played rivalry that day, Lehigh vs Lafayette. At least Lehigh won....

I am so happy NBC posted this! I loved watching it in its entirety!

Boy, I sure do miss these opening intros! I always thought NBC always had the best intros to their sporting events, than any other network. It set the tone for the game and the rest of the afternoon. Too bad nobody does this anymore.

Simply the greatest introduction to a college football game that's ever been produced. 1993: Goosebumps. 2020: Goosebumps.

I am neither a FSU or Notre Dame fan. I can honestly tell you that this was one of the biggest games in college football history. The anticipation of this game for the college football fan exceeded any regular season game that I can ever remember.

I am not a Notre Dame fan (FSU and Bama fan), but I loved the style of play under Lou Holtz. Loved watching this power options offense, with the wishbone in short yardage. And Holtz's teams could play tremendous defense. Just a great era of Notre Dame football

Thanks for the upload. RIP Bobby Bowden.

Charlie Jones...very much UNDERRATED Announcer...great doing football games AND Olympic Track and Field...

I remember this game. I was seven and going nuts when they won this. However, heartbroken the very next week when they lost to Boston College.

35:06 FSU scores 1st 37:55 ND gets the ground game going 42:45 ND ties on beautifully designed reverse... 47:30 Ward w great play 50:50 sacks takes FSU out of FG range 1:00:30 FSU defense stiffins 1:07:02 Bectin for tough y 1:08:20 td 1:12:03 Ward throws deep in the wind for an INT 1:15:35 new Goaline offense look..Burris goes in easy for TD 1:20:05 Bryant Young sacks forces another punt 1:24:50 William Floyd w big run 1:27:13 Kevin Knox gets stripped and ND recovers

You had to be there to fully appreciate it. I was. I count myself lucky to have been among the five to seven thousand proud Seminole fans in the house under that blue/grey autumn sky. Tickets at face? $25...I scalped a pair back in October for the then-unheard of price of $125 each. No regrets.

Arguably one of the greatest college football games ever.

Best college game ever...i was 14 years old and watch it on a 17 inch tv that my mom gat me 2 days before. Waoooo i scream my lungs out on that last play....

The Bob Costas interview is not on the box set and no pre game so thanks for the upload.

Still one of the best college football games ever played. So much fun watching this. I was still stressed at the end as if it were a live game lol. Even though I know the result. A Valiant effort by Florida State on a comeback that fell short. This is why I love Football. Hats off to both teams. Now I know why this game is talked about even today still. A all time classic.

One of the greatest games ever

Back when OJ was known for football

I am watching this from Barcelona, Spain. I remember watching this game live on TV. Go Irish!

GREATEST INTRO to any college game I ever saw. It really hit deep as to what so many in Indiana were feeling.

That damn option running game is hard to stop.

I'm watching the last game of an 8 disc box set of the greatest Notre Dame games and it's this game. We have Charlie Ward, Warrick Dunn, Lou Holtz against Bobby Bowden with OJ Simpson as the sideline commentator and the ex Notre Dame coach's Leahy's grandson playing. A #1 against a #2.

Please please bring back that old intro theme NBC

I was a freshman in high school. I remember while most of the neighborhood kids was outside playing, I was sitting in my room glued to the television. Notre Dame was my Saturday and my favorite college team. It was my dream school. Ricky Waters was a close family friend and hung out with my brothers when he came home. I was ecstatic over this win. I couldn't contain myself. The following week I was the total opposite. Missed interceptions was our downfall. I can still remember that ball going through the uprights at Boston College, and ending with Fla St. Hoisting the National Championship.

You gotta hand it to The Irish they always play one of the Toughest Schedules Even to this day its why when they have a Undefeated season it's really Special!!!!

Welcome to our LIVE broadcast of the Game of the Century! Where are you tuning in from?

ND, you should just upload classic games rather than "stream" them with a countdown and keep them up permanently. It's history. EDIT: I didn't realize that if you missed the live stream, you could still watch it as a regular youtube upload later. That's good but I still don't like that the description says available for a limited time. Why not keep them up forever and post others too?

Sensational. What a showdown between two storied powerful programs, two legendary coaches. This is as good as it gets.

I was at a chess tournament in 5th grade. In between matches we were all crowded around a 10" b&w portable TV with bad antenna reception. No one was missing this game. It was glorious.

Bobby Bowden sounds like the stereotypical college football coach lol

I'm a graduate of both schools (FSU '05 ND '10). I grew up a Canes fan and didn't know who to root for or against in this game, but the hype around this game was unlike anything ever seen until USC-Texas in the Rose Bowl. That the setting was in South Bend kicked it up (just as it did for that Rose Bowl), that feel for the rest of the country regardless of the game being great. But the magnitude of hype was unreal. If I was FSU, I would have fired the equipment manager - I've never seen so many players slip in the open field.

I was 17 years old when the game was on. This was a storied game that will last for quite some time.

Amazing to know that this was ESPN’s first GameDay show…what a way to start this “now” weekly tradition.

puts on FSU Starter Jacket with the Old Logo

An incredible football game! Thank you!

Game starts at 20:21

Best football game I ever watched, I remember it like it was yesterday at 13, I’m 42 now dammmm good football back then

31-17. FSU 4th late. ND has a easy INT. Drops it and then gives up a TD. That play cost ND a national title. Would have been a decisive win. FSU saved themselves. Drop 1 spot and was gifted a title. ND dominated this game.

Thanks for including all of the parts with OJ and not being PC. NBCsN edits them out for the rerun of this game.

Man I cannot bare to watch oj Simpson now knowing what a monster he is

This was one so-called "Game of the Century" that actually lived up to the billing...and then some.

I was 15 or 16 watching this just made varsity on h.s team.... 1:25:20 is what sports are all about. Even tho you want to beat the other team you don't want to see nobody seriously hurt. Respect to the Notre Dame trainers for looking out for W. Floyd.... Go Irish

Even though we blew it to BC the next week, it’s still one of the biggest wins in this school’s proud history. I wish I was alive to watch it, but I’ve heard many people with great stories about this classic. As someone who goes to a D3 school, if we were #2 and played #1 (which is likely considering our rival), I don’t think it’d get half the hype of this game

I was there for this game. It was the loudest crowd I ever heard in South Bend. GO IRISH!!!

Man I can still remember watching this game in the mall as my mom and sister went from store to store. I went into Montgomery Ward Electric Avenue and watched it across like 20 screens. I remember all of the men celebrating that we had won. It was great!

I was a 19 year old college student at a cross country race this day. Wow, it's almost 30 years to the day.

this is 1 of maybe 4x where my birthday was on the day notre dame played and this win was 1 of my greatest birthday gifts i ever gotten

Dude Lou Holtz and Bobby Bowden two of the greatest mentors EVER!!!

I will be attending ND this year, and this happened 8+ years before I was born!

I am a Seminoles fan but it was a great game, we had two turnovers & we still had a chance to tie & or win.... It ended well for FSU that year, Notre Dame loss to Boston college & then FSU went to win national champion

I agree that this is one of the greatest games in college football history and I remember when this game was being played down in the area I grew up in Thomasville, Georgia (just north of Tallahassee); that's all the news crews could talk about for two weeks. Bobby Bowden was THE COACH! who went up against Lou Holtz another great coach. I have much respect for the Bowden Family; they're humble and gracious to others and Coach Bowden lives his faith and tried to instill values into his players. We can't forget Heisman Trophy winner Charlie Ward, Jr. was THE QB! who had a great performance in this game showing why he deserved the 1993 Heisman Trophy. I didn't know him but I knew his dad, Charlie, Sr. (who was my history teacher in High School), and also I graduated High School with Charlie, Jr.'s younger brother & sister. The Wards are another humble and gracious family.

If Jeff Burris could hold on to the ball, this would have been a blowout. He had 4 balls hit him right in the hands and dropped all 4. Still a great game, but damn.

I was a senior in high school, living in the western burbs of Chicago. At the time, I was a ND fan, but this game switched my allegiance. Charlie Ward and his fellow Noles amazed me. Needless to say, I was happy to see them win the title that year. I later attended and graduated Florida State University and have been a diehard fan since. College football is a wonderful sport. Go Noles!

Exactly a week later against Boston College, everybody thought the national championship was a given! When they hit that field goal to end the perfect season, the hallway in our dorm was equal amounts cheers and groans!

I cried the next week! Best game I’ve seen followed by the heartbreak against BC

Have to remember how big this game was, it was the first game the ESPN game day show traveled for a game. And for us ND fans it went for it losing to BC the following week

Lee becton my favorite all time college running back

Irish fan here. I remember watching this game from my Air Force unit in Iceland and being so grateful for the horrendous FSU play calling in the fourth quarter. I guess that part about "playing from behind" just wasn't a concept they had any experience with.

This is one of the greatest sporting events of my lifetime.

man how bless are we to have football the way it is today when i watch these games i have respect for these guy but compare to now day my god the difference u could line up anybody’s 2 team now days and probably win by 21 😮

when you watch the #1 and #2 teams play in college football you would expect to see many of them in the NFL after their college days. i only remeber maybe 4-5 that i saw on sundays playing. just goes to show you how hard it is to move to the pro level

As an Indiana boy that spent his youth in South Bend, nothing gave me greater joy than watching ND (8000 students) go head to head with Florida schools (30000+ students) and take them to the woodshed.

#IRISH4LIFE just a phenomenal Saturday Afternoon that was watching this game with my pops and the boys in Blue and Gold came out on top .

There are the best hits in notredames scareist hats irish slamm bring the word lord i'm ready!

I'm a noles fan as well to 1993 noles Irish game was classic one of the greatest college football game of all time

Charlie ward was way ahead of his time. Imagine him in the NFL back then. He’s the first cam newton, jalen hurts, Desuan Watson, Michael Vick, he could have been a great QB

OJ was a slashing runner! He could knife through the line, just like everything else!

If the CFP was around back then, Notre Dame and Florida State would have easily got in.

What a Classic Football game. N.D. up by 17, F.S.U., somehow, came back, and could have tied it easily, but fact is, N.D. played a better, more physical game. As a diehard Irish, and I also love FSU ( 2 family grads), loved Bowden and team too, but N.D. was and always will be, my team till I leave this place to my Irish Clan in Heaven.

The hype was off the charts for this one.

It’s easy to see in hindsight, but at the moment Charlie Ward throws the ball, he has three guys open: Friar at the five, McCorvey beat his man inside between the hash marks, and Vanover was on his own island in the opposite corner of the end zone at the top of the screen.

As high as I was after this win, I was equally low the following weekend. ND’s last great team. What a game. What a time.

still remember this game like it was yesterday1!!

A great day for the Fighting Irish. The Ghost of Rockne strikes again.

I remember I was a teenager when we watched this at my parents house. My dad had some people over. We were all FSU fans. After Notre Dame didn't score on their first drive and FSU did, we all felt like FSU was going to beat the crap out of Notre Dame the way FSU beat all other teams so far. We felt confident we were going to blow them out. Then Notre Dame scores and I clearly remember a fellow FSU fan saying "Good. I don't want to blow them out. I want this to be a good game." Then Notre Dame scores again... and again..... and we were down by a couple touchdowns. At halftime, we all were in shock. We couldn't believe this was even possible. How could FSU be LOSING?! In the second half, we were had hope FSU could come back. I remember my dad saying "It takes a true champion to come from behind like this and win." Right down to the last play, we believed it was possible. At the end, we were all upset. The great titans have been brought down. This undefeatable powerhouse of a team finally lost. Then Notre Dame lost to Boston College and FSU went on to win the national championship. Would have liked a rematch with Notre Dame for the title, because I think, if they played again, FSU could have beaten them. If you take out the second quarter of this game and put together quarters 1, 3, and 4, FSU wins this easily. FSU panicked too early and lost their confidence. In a neutral site, in a rematch, I truly believe FSU could have beaten them. My $0.02

I Remember this game like it was today, I was on the JV football team, we played that Saturday morning, which Won! Normally we would go watch the Varsity game Saturday afternoon, but instead l went home with my girlfriend at the time ordered pizza and wings and watched this great Game.... GO IRISH!

I remember this game well. I am a true irish fan. I was about 16 or 17 at the time. I went nuts. Then a week later I was mad

Watching the Bobbie Bowden interview before the start of the game, when he was asked about the nat'l championship and Bobbie said something about needing it to fill out his portfolio he mentioned something about winning it that year and all i could think was "no you didn't". Of the pre-playoff format when the #1 and #2 teams at the end of the year rarely played each other in a bowl game due to conference requirements to play in their respective bowl games like the Rose Bowl which was the PAC 10 vs. the Big Ten every year for many decades. Therefore there wasn't a rematch even though they were tied in record with both finishing the season 11-1 and almost the entire country wanting a rematch. Normally I would think that the next tiebreaker you go to, if possible, is head to head. That didn't happen however because most sportswriters hated the Fighting Irish for having beat up most colleges for a hundred years or so. So the Sportswriters "GAVE" the Nat'l Championship to the Seminoles even though head to head Notre Dame thoroughly whooped Fla St. Only a prevent (dime) defense allowing 2 TD's at the end of the game for the 'Noles kept the score respectable in the 4th QTR. The coaches voted the way most experts thought would happen and Notre Dame was the UPI Nat'l Championship Winner even though the AP was more prestigious. How can sportswriters voting be considered more respectable than coaches who the majority of which know a ton more about football. Those that have thick glasses and 2 left feet become sportswriters and those that know the game better than anyone else coach. I don't read anything that the sportswriters write in their stupid newspapers anymore. Rather, their articles on the Internet. They all lie and manipulate you into believing them. The system still isn't perfect but football fans, players and their families deserved a rematch at the very least or Notre Dame winning the AP poll and UPI. It's worth noting that the dime defense made the score look closer than it really was it was employed very effectively against an extremely tough Texas A&M team in the Cotton Bowl which was one of the 5 biggest bowl games depending who played in it from season to season. This year it was a #2 vs. #4 ranked teams I believe. My good memory doesn't work as well as it used to.

OJ here.... 7 months before the Bronco Chase in LA

1:08:18 I've watched football for a long time and this is the best blocked college football play I've ever seen. EVER.

Back then, fewer than 31.5% lived in a state won by Bush in 1992. But the players, coaches and other staff of these teams did.

Imagine if ND doesn’t lose the next week. It’s quite likely there’s a rematch in the Fiesta Bowl. And an undefeated NEBRASKA who was probably as good as ND and FSU doesn’t play for a title. Or - FSU doesn’t get a title as ND plays Nebraska. In either case, Holtz likely isn’t forced out in 96 and either Bowden or Osborne missed a prime chance

awesome game

2:31 NBC broadcast opening.

The most enlightening thing about this game was The O.J. Simpson factor. I was looking at The dates, and this game was played like 2 weeks after that 911 call that Nicole Simpson made, where O.J. is going crazy in the background. No of us knew, but while oj was putting on his “happy face” for the cameras, he was really harboring a sick obsession about his ex-wife. Oj was one good actor!

Great game

one of notre dame football's finest hours. only to be upset the very next week by a tom coughlin coached bc. which he would go on to do again to an undefeated NFL team a few years later. coach bowden just about predicted it too. one great game- two great teams. all these years later and i still kinda wish coach bowden woulda started with warrick dunn... oh well- the irish deserved the win that day.

Easily one of the best college football games ever

I think this is the game that made Florida State into national champions. They were rolling right through their schedule, and if they had gone into the Orange Bowl undefeated, they likely would have lost to a very tough Nebraska team. Their talent was never in question, but it was this game where they found their guts. There's a lot to learn from losing, that's for sure.

And then lost next week to crappy Boston College 😫😒😫

This game wasn’t as close as the final score might indicate. ND O line dominated the overrated FSU defense. The seminal fluids scored a lucky last TD on a ball that should have been intercepted! Gifting that team a national title was the biggest rob job in college football history. ND won the head to head matchup case effing closed!

The funny thing about this game was that both teams seemed to be due for a national championship. Florida State with all the near misses and Notre Dame, we’ll because there Notre Dame and they seemed to win one every decade up to this point.

Bowden had so much Swagger… I believe Notre Dame has not even had a coach even as close to great as Lou

This really was the "Game of the Century" in the 90s.

how good would charlie ward been in the nfl

hey wounder if there going to do a double back pass with a speed option lol