Happy Thursday, 93 days away until the scheduled start of the 2020 college football season in Week Zero as Notre Dame and Navy are set to get the season underway in Dublin.
Yesterday we honored the number 94 by remembering former Notre Dame All-American Willie Fry.
Today for 93 we look back on one of my favorite seasons since I started watching college football years and years ago.
(19)93: The Should Have Been National Championship
1993 started with Notre Dame ranked in the top ten but after an unimpressive showing against Northwestern, fell to No. 11 by week two. The Irish would upset No. 3 Michigan the next week in Ann Arbor and run off seven more consecutive wins, setting up “The Game of the Century” between No. 2 Notre Dame and No.1 Florida State.
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Notre Dame moved to number one following that thrilling win, only to fall a week later against Boston College. Although they beat Florida State head-to-head, voters awarded Bobby Bowden and the Seminoles the national championship after their Orange Bowl win over Nebraska instead of Notre Dame who had just got by Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl.
It was a season that ultimately ended with great frustration due to the Boston College debacle but one of the most memorable Fighting Irish seasons of most of our lifetimes.