Voting for the Hesburgh Region’s first round is open from 6 p.m. ET, Sunday, March 15 until Wednesday night, March 18 at 6 p.m. ET. Be sure to vote for all eight regional match-ups here and see the bottom to click links and vote for the other three regions as well.
Round One Matchups:
A great 1989 season concluded with a win over then number one Colorado in the Orange Bowl takes on the win where things started to turn around for Brian Kelly in year one, the 2010 victory over Utah.
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A couple of early-season upsets of Michigan kept things unbeaten for a couple of coaches in their first years at Notre Dame.
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A blowout of what wound up being a Rose Bowl Champion USC team and a win over a 2013 Michigan State team that would win every other game they played that season.
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The first of two-straight Cotton Bowl wins over Texas A&M sets the tone for a remarkable 1993 season. It meets up with Notre Dame’s first ever trip to Virginia Tech, a night we all learned how overrated the “Enter Sandman” entrance really is.
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The conclusion of the 1993 season wound up being a thriller over Texas A&M while Halloween 2015 ruined an upstart Temple team’s unbeaten season in what was a thriller of it’s own in Philadelphia.
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Pat Dillingham found Arnaz Battle to keep Tyrone Willingham’s start an unbeaten one while Brian Kelly’s first season at Notre Dame ends with a dominating effort against Miami in the Sun Bowl.
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A win over a top-five Michigan team to start the 1990 season meets up with a destruction of Michigan in 2014 that was, at the time, scheduled to be the final meeting between the two old rivals.
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Has there ever been a more photogenic game at Notre Dame Stadium than the 1992 Snow Bowl win over Penn State? That just so happened to be Jerome Bettis, Rick Mirer and Reggie Brooks final home game. It matches up with the shocking 2004 Week Two upset of No. 8 Michigan.
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Be sure to vote in all other first round match-ups here:
Basilica Region
Grotto Region
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