Today is the last day that you’ll have woken up and there will be triple digits days left until college football fully returns. Week Zero is highlighted by Notre Dame and Navy in Dublin, Ireland this year and it’s now just 100 days away.
We’ll be counting down the days until kickoff all summer long sometimes various and entirely random number connections throughout.
In honor of it being 100 days we thought a good way to mark the occasion would be to look back at Lou Holtz’s time at Notre Dame.
Why? Well he did have 100 career wins as Notre Dame’s head football coach which trailed only Knute Rockne when he left the program following the 1996 season.
Holtz of course guided Notre Dame to the 1988 national championship and hopefully before too much longer he’ll not be the last coach to lead the Irish to a title. We all know about the title but here are a handful of other notes from Holtz’s time at Notre Dame to look back on as we countdown the days to the season opener.
Best 5-6 team ever?
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Lou Holtz’s first game as Notre Dame’s head coach was a thriller at Notre Dame Stadium in which the Irish gave No. 3 Michigan everything they wanted and more in a 24-23 Wolverines victory. Notre Dame would finish just 5-6 that year but five of those losses were by a combined 14 points. A season ending upset at USC after trailing by three possessions helped set the tone for a return to prominence a year later.
1987 Turnaround and Tim Brown’s Heisman
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Thanks to the electric Tim Brown, Notre Dame started the 1987 season with a bang by winning at Michigan and starting the year 8-1. Brown ran away with the Heisman Trophy but the Irish faded down the stretch dropping their final two regular season games at Penn State and Miami before falling to Texas A&M in the…
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