Golden Dome Region:
The last of the top seeds goes to the last time Notre Dame clinched a national championship, the conclusion to the 1988 campaign in the Fiesta Bowl win over West Virginia. They get matched up with the first game of the Charlie Weis regime, the 2005 win at Pitt. The rest of the Golden Dome region:
8. 1990 Miami vs. 9. 1989 USC
5. 2006 Michigan State vs. 12. 2018 Syracuse
4. 1988 Michigan vs. 13. 2005 Stanford
6. 2006 UCLA vs. 11. 2008 Hawaii
3. 1996 Texas vs. 14. 1998 Boston College
7. 1986 USC vs. 10. 1995 USC
2. 1988 USC vs. 15. 2006 Penn State
There are your 64 entries for the best Notre Dame game (has to be a win, remember) since Lou Holtz’s first year in 1986. What did the committee leave out? What is too high and too low of seed? And who is the dark horse that we’ll see making a deep run, perhaps to the Final Four? Let us know on our Facebook page, Twitter or in our forum.
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