October 15 is the greatest college football day — not in 2022, not in 2005, but of all time

Over the past several decades of college football, no date has provided better, more memorable games than October 15. Right, @IrishWireND?

What is it about October 15 which brings out the very best in college football?

We commemorated the 17th anniversary of USC’s 2005 win over Notre Dame this weekend. We noted that in 2022, October 15 fell on a Saturday, just as it did in 2005. We gathered some notes on October 15, 2005, trying to express how great a day it was beyond the USC-Notre Dame classic itself.

Fighting Irish Wire spent some time documenting how great October 15, 2022 proved to be. USC-Utah was part of a remarkable day in the sport, but Tennessee’s 52-49 win over Alabama took center stage.

If you think 2005 and 2022 are the only memorable October 15s in college football history, however, you would be wrong. There’s even more to the story of how October 15 is, for inexplicable reasons, the best date on the college football calendar … ever.