I think the more impressive part of this is the fact that we found this game in color, let alone in good condition. Awesome find!

I really miss football from these days - both the way it was played and the way it was covered on TV. Today is too much hype and distractions from the actual game.

All of those future NFL stars on the field...no wonder these were undefeated teams.

Thank you for uploading this. This is a piece of history that I have never seen till today.

There was no bigger college football game than this one and you had to be around to understand why. It was the beginning of the TV revolution in the NCAA football era. 33 players from this game went into the pros. Ara tied one for the Gipper.

I was at this game with my dad, sitting in the N end zone above the locker room tunnel.

Tons of future pros on both teams.

This game was played on my tenth birthday! We watched it at home on WNDU, South Bend's NBC affiliate. All ND games were televised in South Bend, including away games. I still rate the '66 squad as Ara's best team. They notched six shutouts and really should have had eight.

Here’s the team I saw at Oklahoma and I remember very well a tackle named Lynch, on defense. Wow he was dangerous.

Looks like ND had zero interest to try to pull it out.

Gene Washington 84 and Clint Jones 26 Michigan State played for the Vikings with....

Michigan State had a Namesake Offensive Tackle named Jerry West! Cool.😎🏀🏈B.W.

Bob Blier!

5:15 - 5:30 The 50-yard-line camera went out. In those early days of behemoth color cameras with their delicate balance of imaging tubes, this was not unusual. 7:58 Chris Schenkel acknowledges the failure of the 50- and 25-yard-line cameras. 8:35 The 50-yard-line camera is working again.

Notice how much more efficient the referees were back then?

Three future Vikings in this game Clint Jones Gene Washington Alan Page

There was a ton of controversy when this was played with Notre Dame knowing if they tied they would win the national champions (which at that time was done before the Bowl Games as not all schools participated in Bowl Games at the time).

Half of the consensus all-american team came from this game.

49:27 Duffy Daugherty goes for it and converts on fourth down at his 29-yard line late in a tie game. 52:05 But with 4th and 5 on the same drive, Daugherty punts.

One of the many " Games of the Century

Bubba Smith would be the No 1 draft choice of the first AFL NFL draft by the Baltimore Colts in 1967

Ahhhh, for the days of hanging people in effigy from towering smokestacks bellowing out black smoke.

4:45 Tom Shane? Founder of The Shane Co.? The guy that you can a diamond from a direct importer?

where's the first half? Great game ,thanks

George Webster was in a class . Ask the players , some people forget how great he was . Also like alot of players in the nfl Webster,Unitas got the shaft for benefits . Upshaw was a louse as a rep for the players ,tho he took care of his arse .Talked to alot of former players they should know . I don't.

500 American servicemen getting killed each month in Vietnam by November of '66.

Although ND (rightly) catches hell for running out the clock on the tie, they DID go for it on 4th/1 on their own 40, with 12 seconds left. Had MSU made the stop, they had 1 time out left, so they probably would have had time for two or three plays. They also had an all-American WR in Gene Washington and a pretty good FG kicker in Dick Kenney so they would have had at least some chance at a win.

Then Notre Dame went out to the Coliseum and beat SC 51-0 which gave them the national championship, John McKay has made jokes about that game

The team that would have REALLY beaten both teams was the 1971 University of Nebraska Cornhuskers. Perhaps the most complete team of all time. My only other choice would be the 1995 Nebraska team that pulverized a strong Florida team 62-24. That same Alabama team of 1966 had to survive a late field goal attempt by Tennessee to remain unblemished. What is so incredibly impressive about that Nebraska team is that Big Eight teams finished 1,2,3 in the polls that year!! Playing the strongest competition in the country they only had one game that wasn't over by halftime. The game of the Century versus the Oklahoma Sooners. Oklahoma's State of the Art Wishbone was the only team that could sustain a consistent attack against that incredible Husker defense. For verification of their greatness, Alabama's Bear Bryant said of them, "We were beaten soundly by a far superior team. I wouldn't have minded our bunch playing lousy if we could have lucked out and won. But they toyed with us most of the time. Nebraska might have been the greatest I've ever seen." Later Bryant recanted and said they WERE the best ever. They had everything. Size, speed and incredible physical strength. The offense was perfectly balanced. As for the special teams, they produced punt return touchdowns against Oklahoma and Alabama!! No doubt the biggest reason why they were so great was that Devaney had been embarrassed twice by the Tide. Smaller but faster, Alabama convinced Devaney to upgrade. The Corhuskers acquired Size and Speed. Amplified by the best conditioning program in the country. When Bear Bryant says you were the best, you were the best. The numbers don't lie. Down 28-0 at halftime. Losing by a final margin of 38-6. What a team!!

Hanratty to Seymour...

The famous (infamous?) Poll Bowl. Becasuse of the stupid Big Ten bowl rules Big Ten Champion Michigan couldn't play in the Rose Bowl, or any other bowl game.

Why did mich state go with 50 year old cheerleaders?

Why the fuck do you not go for the W? you play to win not to tie

One of many times undefeated Bama and Bear Bryant were royally screwed out of a national title.

1966 Alabama would have beaten either one of these teams. Ask Nebraska.

Alabama deserved the national championship this year

I don't care what all the pundits say...for example how Cowherd slobbers all over USC's knob, saying its LA, palm trees, great weather blah blah blah--All that is irrelevant, to most kids who really wanna be a champion...These 2 teams were the best because they had the best coaches, period...Its ways gonna be that way. Find out where the best coaches go and you'll out who's competing for championships....To me Ara was the best and so were his teams...Look at the U now, they still get those amazing athletes as does USC but just normal teams....Look at Bama, pre Saban/post Bear just an average team that had some winners but not year in and out...LSU seems to have found their guy now and could end up being special but they had some very average years...Dabo, great coach/great teams...No doubt about Urban Meyer so look at all his teams--hed the best coach therefore his teams are always the best....Look at osu post woody just a bunch of average teams that competed here or there, even w John Cooper they had NFL teams every year but couldn't beat Michigan..Theres example after example...So the best teams are always coached by the best and it is an absolute necessity to have the Coach 1st, the kids will always follow, at least the ones that matter and are winners

College football was so conservative back then. Pretty boring.