When did Alabama play Notre Dame?
2013
The 2013 Discover BCS National Championship Game was a postseason college football bowl game that took place on Monday, January 7, 2013, at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. It featured the No. 1 ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish and No. 2 Alabama Crimson Tide.
Who was coach of Notre Dame football in 1973?
Ara Parseghian
The 1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season….1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team.
| 1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football | |
|---|---|
| Coaches | No. 4 |
| AP | No. 1 |
| 1973 record | 11–0 |
| Head coach | Ara Parseghian (10th season) |
Who won the 1973 Sugar Bowl?
Notre Dame
Underdog Notre Dame won 24–23; the game received a 25.3 Nielsen rating, making it one of the highest-rated college football games in history….1973 Sugar Bowl.
| Notre Dame Fighting Irish | Alabama Crimson Tide |
|---|---|
| (10–0) | (11–0) |
| 24 | 23 |
| Head coach: Ara Parseghian | Head coach: Bear Bryant |
| AP Coaches 3 4 | AP Coaches 1 1 |
When was the last time Notre Dame won a national championship in football?
January 2, 1989 – Fiesta Bowl In what remains Notre Dame’s most-recent national championship, the Irish capped their 1988 season with a triumph over West Virginia in the Fiesta Bowl.
When was the last time Notre Dame beat Alabama in football?
Notre Dame holds a 5-3 all-time record against Alabama, but the Crimson Tide have won the last two meetings. 1986 – Alabama 28, Notre Dame 10 (Birmingham, Ala.) 1980 – Notre Dame 7, Alabama 0 (Birmingham, Ala.)
When was last time Notre Dame beat Alabama in football?
How long has it been since Alabama played Notre Dame?
That would be the Alabama of 2012. That Alabama team nuked Notre Dame back to the Stone Age in the 2013 BCS Championship Game. That Tide team beat the Irish so bad (42-14), the result sent Kelly back to the film room and recruiting sites to build a northern Indiana version of Nick Saban’s bully ball.
Has Alabama ever played Notre Dame in football?
Notre Dame and Alabama have now played eight times after their most recent meeting on New Years Day 2021 in the Rose Bowl. In Arlington, Texas.
When did Notre Dame play Alabama in the Sugar Bowl?
Eight years earlier, Penn State clashed with Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. And so on. 1973’s Game of the Century was the Alabama-Notre Dame Sugar Bowl. The two storied programs met for the first time at New Orleans’ Tulane Stadium, where the Sugar Bowl was held until 1975.
What was the final score of Notre Dame vs Alabama?
Clements hit Weber with a 36-yard pass that brought Notre Dame out of danger with 2:12 left, and the Crimson Tide were all but finished. The 24-23 victory propelled Notre Dame to No. 1 in the AP poll (the final UPI poll came out before the bowl games), while Alabama finished at No. 4.
Who was the Notre Dame coach in 1973?
Notre Dame coach Ara Parseghian (age 50 at the time), left, and Alabama coach Paul Bryant (age 60 at the time) meet before the 1973 Sugar Bowl at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans. No. 3 Notre Dame captured a share of the national championship with a 24-23 victory over No. 1 Alabama.
Who was the winner of the 1973 Sugar Bowl?
1973 Sugar Bowl. Jump to navigation Jump to search. The 1973 Sugar Bowl, part of the 1973 bowl game season, took place on December 31, 1973, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana. The top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) met the independent Notre Dame Fighting Irish; both teams were undefeated.