Tag: Notre Dame vs Michigan

Notre Dame to Re-Air 2018 Win over Michigan

Notre Dame vs Michigan was a huge way to open the 2018 season. Relive it Saturday-many national writers seemed to have missed it originally.

Some people, national football writers and media members specifically, almost want to refuse to believe that the biggest game of college football’s opening weekend in 2018 actually happened.

However, it did.  Notre Dame beat Michigan 24-17 in a game that wasn’t nearly as close as the final score indicated.  You can relive that on Notre Dame’s YouTube channel this Saturday night starting at 7:30 p.m. ET.

As the year went on Notre Dame kept winning, albeit not always in the most impressive of ways.  However, it was often treated as if that season opener was never actually played because Michigan would wind up being a team that much of the media wanted to treat as a legitimate championship contender, even with the Notre Dame loss.

Michigan would end up getting pummeled by Ohio State to close the regular season while Notre Dame would go 12-0 before getting run out of the Cotton Bowl by Clemson.

Maybe much of the college football world will actually watch it this time around because they seemed to have missed the boat on it originally.

WATCH: Ten Best Blocked Kicks in Notre Dame History

Notre Dame has blocked their fair share of punts and field goals over the years. See the ten best right here!

What is the best sound effect you hear during a football game?

There are a ton of solid ones but one of my favorites will always be the double-thud of a blocked kick.

Notre Dame put together their list of the ten best blocked kicks in program history.  Before we discuss, simply enjoy the ten kicks first.

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I wasn’t around for two or three, born too late to enjoy those live.  Watching the Crable block against Michigan is great because it’s the first of a pair of field goals to break Michigan’s hearts two years in a row, but the launching off of a teammate to do it looks so foreign compared to rule changes since.

The Glenn Earl block against Air Force was just silliness as well, especially considering he was supposed to be playing back, protecting against a fake.  For being far from a great the 2000 squad was incredibly fun, even if incredibly frustrating at times, too.

My favorite on the rest of the list may have to be when a young Reggie Brooks almost takes the ball from the punter himself.  He doesn’t have to lay out or anything, just tap the kick away, go run into the end zone to recover it and score.  Blanton’s against Utah is very much the same, it just happened to have a perfect hop for the scoop-and-score.

Fun list.

 

2020 FIW Tournament: Sweet 16 Voting is Open! (Best Notre Dame Game Since ’86)

We are in the Sweet 16 round of the tournament to decide Notre Dame’s best football game since 1986. Are any of the favorites on upset-alert this round?

And here we are, just 16 entries remaining as we continue our tournament at Fighting Irish Wire to determine the best Notre Dame football game (had to be a win) since Lou Holtz began his run in 1986.

Through two rounds we’ve seen mostly chalk with a couple of exceptions:

The sixth seeded 2002 Michigan State is alive in the Grotto Region while fellow-six seed 2006 UCLA remains alive in the Golden Dome Region.

11th seeded 2012 Michigan is still alive in the Hesburgh Region as it enters the Sweet 16 as the lowest remaining seed in the entire tournament.

All four one and two seeds remain as do three of the four, three seeds.  Can any of these Cinderella’s continue their runs to the Elite Eight?  Now is your chance to decide – voting will be open until Wednesday evening:

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