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When you’ve played football as long as Notre Dame has your record books end up looking pretty impressive. That’s the case when you look at the best quarterbacks to ever play at Notre Dame. So who holds the records and even more impressively, who are …
When you’ve played football as long as Notre Dame has your record books end up looking pretty impressive. That’s the case when you look at the best quarterbacks to ever play at Notre Dame.
So who holds the records and even more impressively, who are some of the megastars you remember who didn’t make the top 10?
Here are Notre Dame’s top ten career passers:
Another Domer hits the transfer portal
Notre Dame cornerback Caleb Offord is entering the transfer portal as it would seem his time with the Fighting Irish has come to an end. Offord was a member of the 2020 recruiting class and a rarity for Notre Dame as he was the program’s first player since Jarious Jackson to earn a football scholarship and come from Mississippi.
Offord was seemingly blocked on the depth chart and didn’t figure to push for much of an expanded role in 2022.
Offord was graded as a three star recruit by 247Sports during his recruitment and chose Notre Dame over the likes of Arkansas, Duke, Houston, Oklahoma, and others.
All the best of Offord at his next destination.
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Ian Book will be measuring up to these guys when he makes his first start.
With Ian Book getting the start for the New Orleans Saints this coming week, it brings many other former Notre Dame quarterbacks to mind. Specifically, we like to think of those in recent years who have been made starters for NFL teams and how they did in their debuts. Here are how these quarterbacks who once donned the gold and blue did in when they were first charged with NFL offenses in games:
1999 was a forgettable year for Notre Dame outside a couple of comeback wins over blue-blood programs. Relive one of them Saturday night!
Notre Dame has been doing a great job keeping us entertained with plenty of old classics to watch during our respective quarantines. Saturday they dip into that bag yet again with a memorable comeback victory from an otherwise pretty forgettable season.
1999 saw Notre Dame go just 5-7 after being within a regular season finale win at USC of going to a BCS bowl game. Instead, Notre Dame lost that game with no Jarious Jackson at quarterback as he was injured and that, coupled with a bowl loss to Georgia Tech seemed to only slow things headed towards 1999.
Notre Dame started the year by blowing out Kansas before consecutive losses at Michigan, Purdue and to Michigan State. A comeback win over Oklahoma to start October before blowing out Arizona State got the Irish back to .500 when USC came a calling in mid-October.
Saturday cannot be here fast enough!
Relive the 1999 matchup against USC. Join the conversation right here on twitter using the hashtag #NDWatchParty.
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Having lost three straight to USC, Notre Dame sure was looking like it was going to be a fourth consecutive defeat at the hands of the Trojans as they trailed 24-3 early in the third quarter.
A few Trojans mishaps led to Notre Dame scores before Jackson eventually fumbled into the endzone, only to have tight end Jabari Halloway land on the loose ball to give the Irish the 25-24 lead with just over two minutes remaining at a rain-soaked Notre Dame Stadium.
The win moved Notre Dame to 4-3 on the season before a victory over Navy got the Irish to five a week later. That was unfortunately all the wins Notre Dame would find that fall though, losing the final four games to Tennessee, Pitt, Boston College and Stanford to finish just 5-7. It was their first losing season since Lou Holtz’s debut year when the Irish went 5-6 in 1986.
USC would finish just 6-6, missing a bowl game as well in what was the second of three seasons with Paul Hackett guiding the ship. He’d be fired after the 2000 season and be replaced by some guy named Pete Carroll.
Enjoy one of the few bright spots from the fall of 1999 Saturday night by watching on YouTube and tweeting along using #NDWatchParty.
Most college football fans have no recollection of 1998 Notre Dame vs. LSU but for those who watched it was four hours of all-time weird.
By pure luck Notre Dame and LSU have had a nice little run as the two have met six times since 1997. A few of those have ended in some thrilling finishes, most recently the Capital One Bowl win with Miles Boykin snagging the game-winning touchdown reception from Ian Book late in the fourth quarter.
Notre Dame is going to re-air another classic Notre Dame/LSU contest on Saturday night as they’ll be showing their 1998 win over the Tigers at Notre Dame Stadium.
Notre Dame was ranked tenth in the nation and on the cusp of a BCS berth if they could knock off LSU and USC in the final couple weeks of the year. For those that don’t recall, this game featured:
You can check that all out here on Saturday night at 6:30 p.m. ET as Notre Dame and LSU do battle again 22 years later. It was an all-time strange one that ended in victory but man alive was it a strange way to get there.
