Each week Notre Dame has been replaying a a different classic game on their YouTube page. Two weeks ago it was the 2015 thrashing of Texas, last week was the win over No. 1 Florida State in 1993 and tonight was the airing of the 1992, last second win in “The Snow Bowl” over Penn State.
That thriller along with (almost) every other home game from the 1992 season are now available on the Notre Dame Athletics YouTube page. From that year you’ll find the following games:
Week Two’s tie against Michigan was first up that home season and despite a frustrating finish to the game, it did feature one of the best runs I’ve ever seen a Notre Dame player make when Reggie Brooks was knocked out by Corwin Brown but still stumbled into the end zone. Not sure why but that one has not yet been added. Stay tuned and we’ll link to it once/if it is.
A 48-0 thrashing of Purdue in Week Four to move Notre Dame to 3-0-1 is next. Is there every anything boring about blowing out the Boilermakers? Didn’t think so.
One of the most maddening Notre Dame losses of my lifetime came in Week Five as Stanford came back from a 16-0 deficit as John Lynch and Glyn Milburn sparked a 33-0 run and ruined Notre Dame’s title dreams.
Three weeks later Notre Dame was back in the top-ten and welcomed BYU to Notre Dame Stadium for the first meeting between the two ever. The Irish rolled over the Cougars 42-16 while holding them to just 13 rush yards on 16 attempts.
The first Saturday in November brought a battle of top-ten teams as No. 9 Boston College came to South Bend and was demolished 54-7 on the day that scenes from “Rudy” were filmed.
Finally, Senior Day 1992 was that “Snow Bowl” thriller over Penn State, 17-16. Watch that and enjoy an all-time send off for the likes of Rick Mirer, Jerome Bettis and Reggie Brooks.
1992 was an extremely fun year and perhaps the year that I started to take a real interest in Notre Dame football. I don’t recall a ton of moments but I do know for certain that I watched the Stanford game and got very upset that season. Six year old me didn’t handle losing well. Hell, 34 year old me doesn’t handle losing well.
That said it was a still solid 10-1-1 campaign that finished with a drubbing of Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl and a final ranking of fourth overall.