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  • Probably the single greatest opening for a College Football game, ever. The game lived up to the hype too.

  • just beautiul

  • They don't make em like that anymore

  • It should be a great game today, as both teams sucks equally this season. Living in Tally, but go Irish!

  • FSU 31 ND 6 in the 2011 Champs bowl

  • Get ready to lose in Orlando retards! PS. Rudy was offsides! !!

  • Wow nbc and bob costas always sucks up to ND don't they?

  • Wow, I forgot just how far up ND ass both Costas and NBC were!

  • Its been 18 years since this game and that intro, and none of the players or their coaches are still playing , but I still get chills and goose bumps when I watch this intro. I reminds me of my days growing up watching college football on Saturday morning, and then playing football in the back yard or park with my friends, just around the corner from main street. AWESOME STUFF!!!

  • Bob Costas does a great job with these intros

  • FSU = 1993 National Champs.

  • i dont wanna here anymore about notre dame.what a joke.how does usf ass taste

  • Don't mess with God's team

  • here come the Irish!!

  • ND shut down the Seminole chant. ND crowd chanted lou lou lou Needless to say the Seminole chant was never heard in the stadium after the 2nd qrt.

  • 15 and 15 alltime in bowl games and 9 strait losses thats awesome go watch rudy again.

  • please notre dame what do they have 2 bowl wins in ten years.they will never be good again.great school but they cant recruit i dont care what there class ranking says everybody knows thoughs kids are only ranked high if they have notre dame on there list. fact

  • @eminent78 still better than fsu. fact

  • @eminent78 your spelling and grammar are perfect.  Fact.

  • @Sportscaster17 good one. you can do better than that. let me know what you think of and dont wait until notre dame gets a win then run your mouth.whats the matter are you to stu stu stupid!!!!! to think

  • FSU is a title contender? Didn't they get blown out by the two best teams they played last year? Oklahoma will eat your lunch. Oh, also, Lynch and Prestwood say hello.

  • @CMGWW. Boy do I remember that 2002 beatdown in Tallahassee! You guys cleaned FSU's clock. The result was almost as bad as the 37-0 shellacking the Seminoles gave Notre Dame in 2003 in South Bend.  As for 1993, one of the quirks of the system is that when a team loses matters (maybe more than it should). Best of luck to the Irish in 2011. I'd like nothing better than a BCS title game between the Seminoles and Irish. I think FSU is (at least) a year away from being at that level though.

  • Not a fan of either team, but this was an incredible game. I remember a packed rec room at the frat house I was living in at the time. It was an incredible game, one of college football's regular season best. And the following week, no shock that Boston College was able to end the Irish's NC hopes after they spent so much energy and emotion in winning this game.

  • The perfect intro to a perfect game. Almost 20 years now and this is still one college football's greatest games. It had it all and, most importantly, was left untouched by the schlocky, over-the-top, overhyped ESPNization. NBC knows how to produce a football game. And just like with the Olympics, it's done with total class. To put it another way, NBC is Grace Kelly and ESPN is Sandra Bernhard.

  • Too bad neither one of y'all's teams will EVER be relevant again! Enjoy mediocrity and decades of sucking in this new millienum.

  • FSU is a title contender this year and will be ranked in the top 5 when the polls are released. you are a smart dude.

  • 11 national titles and 7 heisman trophey winners is impressive, but what's not is none since.

  • ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff­ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff­fffff so lame

  • please don't EVER take this video off youtube! It should be in the National archives but this will do for now....

  • As a lifelong FSU fan, it just hit me that the '93 ND win against the Noles has probably been the last greatest win in program history. To be more specific...the SECOND quarter of that game was probably the greatest quarter of football for the Irish since then. The only other great moments I can think of would be Willingham's great start (and win vs FSU in 'Tally) in his first or second year, but they still finished that season blundering...

    Ah well, who cares, really... Go NOLES!

  • @kevinsparkman only 9 more good job sir!

  • The greatest college football opening ever 

  • For anyone wondering, the piece of music at 1:05 is "Fort Battle" by Trevor Jones from the Last of the Mohicans OST.

  • Notre Dame played well at home that day and held on to win at the end. Problem was they fired all their ammunition at the Seminoles and had nothing left for an average BC team the following week. Meantime, FSU steamrolled it's competition and beat an undefeated Nebraska in the Orange Bowl. The first of two national titles for Bobby Bowden. Jimbo Fisher will likely win one before he is done in Tallahassee.

  • @Dauntless12 That doesn't change the fact that ND BEAT the Seminoles...and when both ended up with identical records, the 'Noles got the championship. Oh well, 2 FSU titles to NDs..what??? oh wait, a TON more...Brian Kelly already has a top 10 recruiting class to go along with 18 returning starters....At least ND touched the top 10 since this game took place...remember that beatdown in 2002 at Bobby's place? Well it would happen again this year. ND for the darkhorse BCS Champs

  • at least notre dame has touched the top 10 since this game? FSU won another title and was ranked in the top four for the next 8 seasons after that game. FSU also got your coach fired in '03 37-0. are you fucking retarded?

  • The game that ND won and all thought they were gonna continue their dominance only to lose the next week that has set back a program more than any other school...I'm not bashing ND, its the truth

  • Can you upload this video again but include the NBC music and graphics that followed this part.

  • For all you Florida State fans, you need to thank BC for beating ND the next week and because of that you got into the National Title game with Nebraska. That next week's game was the beginning of the end of ND dominance of football and since then they have had only 1 bowl win since 1994.

  • @redmustang03 hey, thanks BC LOL!

  • Thanks for the memories. I remember watching that in 1993. That's the closest the Irish have come to another National Championship since 1988. I have hopes we'll see those days again under Kelly. Thanks again and keep the Irish videos coming.

  • Yeah, your right but it damn sure won't be 16 more years. Maybe 3 at most.

  • It's funny how it's been like 16 years since ND was good LOL

  • @ArmyRob13 alright , people tend to forget the bush push game and if notre dame won that game against usc which was complete b.s , they would have been in the bcs national championship game

  • @TheBlackhawk58 that win was vacated...though it doesn't mean much now...too bad the refs didn't call the "Bush Push"...since he has since been declared ineligible that win belonged to ND....

  • @ArmyRob13 and still % points behind Michigan for best winning % of all time ....says alot cause Irish haven't been so good in many years....Hate Greatness...btw where is the college hall of fame ....oh yeah South Bend!

  • NBC Sports must have blown out its entire promotional budget to put that thing together. Very well done.

  • That right there sums up college football for me and i'm english! GO NOLES

  • The Irish pushed around FSU the field all day in this game. FSU made it close at the end but ND never received the credit it deserved for the beating the "unbeatable team of the century". The media had already made up its mind early in the season that FSU was getting the title.

  • GO NOLES!

  • ND got hosed that year out of a national championship

  • God the Irish have become a joke...at least under Charlie Weis even though they stunk they were interesting and fun to watch...now under Kelly so far they stink AND they are dull...I think Mr. Kelly is in over his head...this ain't Cincinnati...

  • wow this is a highly suggestive propaganda peice. They really lay it on thick from the get go. The music, chants and anologies...holy shit.

  • @Mozartmostly Did you see the game it lived up to all the Hype and despite losing to BC the following week ND should have had at least a share of the National Championship

  • this came out when i was born

  • what a comeback the noles almost pulled off...matt frier was open all day.

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  • Bob Costas is a sissy...

  • Go NOLES!!

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  • I wish they would make intros like this again.

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  • @ufgt1989 if ND makes wins a bcs bowl this year, and michigan beats bama next year, along with both teams 3-0 headed into that game, michigan ND will be on whole nother level of hype and relevance. hope it happens. if it does, that will have an amazing intro

  • No team in any sport is more important to its sport then Notre Dame is to college football...my favorite 2 college football games in the last 20 years are this game and ND/USC in 2005...wake up the echos! Go Irish!

  • @wow13d I only have 2 words for that....ROLL TIDE.

  • @wow13d Notre Dames fans say this a lot, but almost all of us could live without them.

  • You have absolutely got to be kidding me that the OSU/Mich game in 2006 was the game of the century. Maybe that would have been the case if OSU had not gotten the living crap beat out of them by Florida the next game. I mean my high school team could have played Florida closer than OSU did in that game. The OSU Becky's got rolled and smoked like a joint!

  • Chills!!!

  • GO IRISH!

  • I love me some Notre Dame football!! God, Country, Notre Dame.

  • Love me some Irish Football!

  • I was sixteen when I watched this game and an Irish fan...still am. I don't remember this intro but it gave me chills never the less. Thank you very much for posting.

  • Best college football game ever! Every minute lived up to the hype!

  • that was the best intro i've ever heard

  • Wow that was actually really good...

  • ohio state and michigan 2006 will forever be the game of the century this wasnt for a huge trophy or braging ri... well sorta buyt this was for tradition 1 that has been for 100 plus years its a day were 2 amazing teams come onto the field and play the most important rivalry in sports history

  • @tacodestroyer11

    Sorry man, OSU/UM doesn't date back as far as ND/UM. And plus your OSU/UM game happened in the 21st century, not the 20th, so you have about 90 years of college football before declaring it "game of the century".... Notre Dame and Michigan are the 2 all time winningest programs in college football. OSU/Mich 2006 will NEVER compare to this game. ND may have slipped as had FSU, but then again so has UM, so don't try to talk crap...

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  • 1993 was the last time Notre Dame fielded a contender. Hopefully Manti Te'o and the rest of the new breed of Irish will change that.

  • Are you kidding me! The soundtrack to Rudy in the background. I just discovered this intro and it probably is the best college football opening ever. I thought the osu vs. mich was good from 2006. This gives the true college football fan chills!

  • Holy crap. Fabulous work by Costas. What the hell happened to him? lol

  • This was one of the greatest games ever. But does anyone else remember how FSU WR, Matt Fryer, moaned and groaned anout how FSU deserved another chance to play for the National Title? Grnted ND would lose a week later to BC, but how is it the FSU wins the National Title that year when they lost to ND head to head? Truly, ND was robbed of their 12th National Title.

  • @CHICANO1975

    You lost to an inferior team at home. That is why you didn't get the title. You also had a lot of trouble in your bowl game that year as well. That's college ball!

  • Gave me Goosebumps!!!!! I played at Permian HS (Friday Night Lights) in Odessa,TX and every Pop Warner game, Every Junior High game and every pick up game all I could think of is playing MoJO football.

    I couldn't even imagine playing in South Bend

  • Notre Dame should have played for the national championship that year.

  • @llehman84

    No they should not have. WVA is the only school that really got jobbed but were exposed by Florida later on.

  • @tkcarr sec teams have always exposed the obvious from other conferences. the bcs sec winning streak is nothing new. the big twelve was the only conference that came close to challenging sec teams in major bowl games.

  • @jusprazem

    Well, in this case they did for sure. WVA was the ONLY team in '93 to have a gripe with FSU getting the Orange Bowl against Nebraska. The funny thing is that the 1994 and 2001 Sugar Bowls are the ONLY time in my life I have rooted for Florida. Normally, I would root for North Korea over UF!

  • @tkcarr WVU was probably unmotived in that game....i used to hate florida with a passion do you think an sec team will win the national title next year or a team from anothe conference. OHio state or Vtech would be the only other challenge.. i will have to watch boise to see what they got...i am not sold on them yet..

  • @jusprazem

    I DO hate Florida with a passion As to WVA, they were motivated as had they won they would have been the ONLY undefeated team that year. However, they were a fraud from the Big Least and couldn't stay with the Big Boys. Next year? Watch out for Boise!

  • @tkcarr after what happended to cincinatti against florida, i beleive that the big east may not be a bcs conference anymore...it was a warmup game for florida. Florida was sleepwalking and scored 90...they are still scoring as we speak....Boise only looks good because they play against terrible defenses of the pac ten. Everyone falls head over heals.....they will get tested against the first physical team they have played since the last sec team they played...Vtech

  • best pre game intro of all time the begining of the end of the holtz era.

  • man i'm pumped up just hearing that yrs later lol, I hope notre dame gets back to that one day. college football is just better when they are competitive.

  • They beat them on a last second field goal...hardly an ass kicking and despite that loss Notre Dame should have still won the national title due to their win in this game. It's too bad BC screwed everything up because we likely would have gotten a rematch in the Fiesta between Florida State and Notre Dame.

  • boo hoo notre dame choked and let fsu off the hook and fsu capitalized

  • @KYExtemper

    On a neutral field FSU would have destroyed ND. You lost to a mediocre team at home. No excuse.

  • @tkcarr

    WRONG....It was settled on the field. FSU 24....ND 31...The two teams should've had a rematch in the Orange Bowl, if anything.

  • @CHICANO1975

    Beat Boston College at home or shut up!

  • BC won by a field goal and it was the last time ND was ranked #1

  • ddnt kick their ass but did win a close gm.

  • rudy rudy rudy rudy

  • As an Alabama fan, I understand a Notre Dames fans frustration. ND, Like Bama, has hired several head coaches since their last successful one, for all the wrong reasons. Davie shouldn't have been considered, Willingham was a one team wonder at Stanford, milked it, and when on to ruin two programs, and Weis had never lead a college program before. I think Kelley will win at Notre Dame. Lou Holtz dealt with the same admissions problems, and won. They just need a good, credible coach.

  • Holtz is a certified cheater, every team he has ever coached get NCAA sanctions after he leaves.

  • @bmccormick070982

    Ty was hired to clean up the image and do things the right way, and Ty did just that. Problem is that Ty is too clean for his own good, so as soon as he got the programs fixed, he got a foot in the ass out the door so the team could win again.

  • @bmccormick070982 - please dude- ND does not cheat like Bama. Bama has the lowest graduation rate in the SEC. Saban is a thug coach who allowed child rapists to play at MSU. Read more son. Turn off FoxNews. Bama is no ND.

  • @bmccormick070982 PLEASE BAMMER!!!! Y'all sold your soul for Nick $atan and FIVE YEARS LATER HE STILL DOESN'T HAVE A WINNING RECORD AGAINST AUBURN!!! You better hurry up and continue your tradition of firing coaches that are OWNED BY AUBURN before he leaves y'all like hes done every other team.

    So sad... Alabama cheats and they hired teh biggest cheater in college football and they still can't win a legit national title or beat Auburn.

    WAR EAGLE!!

  • @bmccormick070982 I Bleed Blue & Gold! It's obvious to me you are a College Football Fan! Good Luck in 2011! You should come to South Bend in november...Elephants hate cold weather...LOL...has Alabama ever beaten Notre Dame?

  • @bmccormick070982 Leave it to Alabama fan to talk shit about a Black Coach

  • @bmccormick070982 Great observations! I've been a closet 'Bama fan for years, mostly because of the great tradition and toughness the Tide displays. Saban has done a great job righting the ship, and I hope Kelly can do the same.

  • I'm sure Miami would roll FSU's defense up and smoke it like a cig if they were to play again now that Miami's offense has things figured out and gets rolling a good bit faster. First game of the season and they clipped FSU's raggedy ass d for shy of 400 passing yards..

    And nah, I'm not really bitching. I'm stating the obvious fact that FSU is NOTORIOUS for fucking better teams out of better bowls.

  • @blackonefifty

    FSU doesn't get to pick where it plays bowls. The Bowl Committees do that. Our D was bad last year but so was yours. Wisconsin showed that. Also, that game came down to the last play so don't get too uppity. Lets see what Stoops does. BTW in 2000 you lost to Washington so the BCS did you in not FSU.

  • @tkcarr georgia was the last sec team btw.. virginia tech will be a challenge.

  • @tkcarr

    Safe to say that even though Wisconsin "manhandled" my Hurricanes..they still only scored 20. That's called keeping us in the game. Unfortunately our O-Line didn't feel compelled to do so..:[

  • @blackonefifty

    Call me overly optimistic but the defense you saw last year will not be the one you see this year. That squad was poorly coached and headed by a legend who wanted to retire. That is not the case this year.

  • @tkcarr

    The only way FSU CAN go is up as far as defense goes. I can't imagine them being any worse than they were during the '09 season. As for "poorly coached" .. Yea..Mickey Andrews doesn't know what a zone defense is. But, best of luck to FSU next year. I'm pretty confident that even the most staunch opposition of FSU is expecting some kind of improvement with the recruiting class they had last year. We all know how SOME five star prospects end up though..

  • @blackonefifty

    Micky's son died three years ago and he wanted to quit but was talked into staying. His heart was not in it. The other coaches other than Odell Haggins were pretty bad. The talent is there and now so are the coaches. I have high hopes for next year.

  • @tkcarr

    I live in Tallahassee..well aware of the situation. I've met Odell Haggins personally..used to sell him bait when he'd go fishing on Lake Iamonia or Talquin. He's good people. He just had a young group this year.. As for Amato, don't know what the hell they saw in him to keep him around.

  • @blackonefifty

    Bowden's downfall had been his strength. Loyalty. Chuck needed a job and two more years to qualify for the Florida Teachers Pension and Bowden brought him back for past successes which failed to repeat. Same same with Mickey. Anyone who has dealt with elderly relatives knows the deal. It was time for a change.

  • @tkcarr

    If Mickey would have just implemented a couple different wrinkles in his defense they'd have done better..man coverage is pretty well obsolete. Especially if there's a drop off in talent.

  • @blackonefifty

    You are missing it. Mickey was done. He's 69, lost his son and has grandchildren to raise. He's won two titles and done all he could do in CFB. He was just going through the motions. Just like you or I would do in the same situation. They should have let him retire in 2008, but then Bowden would have put in Amato!

  • @tkcarr

    Not really missing it, just stating the obvious. I do believe that had his team been any better he'd have probably gone after a few more bucks for one last season. Never can tell though.

    And Mickey's son didn't just die -- he killed himself in front of Mickey's house.

  • @blackonefifty

    I knew about his son. Just being respectful. Disagree he would have stayed, he wanted to go in '08. Wouldn't leave his wife at home alone. and that is not good for recruiting.

  • NOTRE DAME WILL RISE AGAIN!

  • don't worry, notre dame will be back to the top it's inevitable.

  • Not until they play and beat teams down south during there regular season. The Big 10 just doesn't cut it anymore.

  • haha okay dumbass whatever makes you feel better

  • I'm sure you tell the Canes that regarding 2000, too.

  • The Florida State Criminals

  • um how are they criminals? Especially when Noterdame has the biggest ego's in the history of football. Aww boo hoo. You guys don't want to go to a bowl game because you have a 6-6 record. As a ND fan that pissed me off. It should be Miami and FSU in the bowl game. That would be so epic for Bowden's last game.

  • you could at least say criminoles you dumbass prick

  • FSU has a history of fucking teams this way.. the '93 Irish squad..the '00 Hurricane squad.. The '09 Hurricane squad out of a Gatorbowl...

    bastards.

  • are you really bitching about a gator bowl? get a life dude. it isn't like miami didn't get lucky as fuck to beat f$u anyway

  • When Notre Dame was a player...wow, they've fallen so far.

  • its a shame ND has fallen so hard to the point of borderline irrelevance to the colelge football world

  • Yeah, they're so irrelevant that their coaching search takes top story on SportsCenter over all the games that are actually happening every day. I agree they've fallen hard, but they're nowhere near irrelevant.

  • It is. Their offense was really good this year - too bad their defense wasn't.

  • yeah, they're irrelevant. That's why they haven't been talked about just about every second for the past month on ESPN...oh wait...

  • notre dame should of won the national title in 1993, they got screwed

  • how many did ND lose that year? Was it just Boston C.?

  • they lost to B.C....get real

  • I thought Florida State won this game? I remember FSU winning a title around that time and Charlie Ward winning the Heisman.

  • Man, the first part of this makes me want to cry...

  • i get really emotional watching this. Back in the summer of 93, I knew in the bottom of my heart that the Irish would prevail in this game. Lou would not let any other outcome happen.

  • This game was 3 weeks after the movie "Rudy" came out...hence the theme music...I've bled Irish blue and gold ever since I saw "Rudy"...greatest sports movie of all time...

  • amazing.

  • I have goosebumps!!! have not watched it since that day. Still the best game I have ever watched. Man, I hope The Irish get back to those days when it was Notre Dame and insert whoever picked to win the national championship. Whether people like it or not college football is better when Notre Dame is great.

  • Nah. College Football is better when Navy beats ND.

  • AMEN...the Tim Tebow era has been the boringest 4 year stretch in CFB history...at least since I've been watching...Charile will NEVER get the Irish back to the top...I don't know who can...but I know Charlie won't...wouldn't mind seeing John Gruden get a shot at it...he's got the personality at least...

  • This IS the GREATEST pregame introduction EVER. Nothing I can remember even comes close. I couldn't believe my good fortune that this showed up on YouTube. Everytime I watch it I want to put my high school shoulder pads on, along with my green and gold jersey and go hit something. Damn, this is such a great 3 minute video

  • Quite possibly THE BEST college football game I ever watched!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bob Costas Is A livning legend!

  • wow....I mean WOW...

    You don't understand...this had me wiping tears away...I didn't realize how great the intro was back then. This is perfect...They don't have football coverage like that anymore...

    That's it...I am going to write NBC and tell them that either on Saturday, November 10th or on Wednesday, November 13th of 2013, they should play this game in its entirety. This is the greatest game ever...No doubt about it.

  • correction...Saturday, November 9th

  • BC was not unranked, they were ranked #16. Even with that loss, ND still should have won the title based on head to head with FSU. At the worst, it should have been a split title.

  • I have this game on dvd. It's still awsome to watch

  • it kills me to this day. damn its always boston college. still we were both one loss, and we did beat you. we beat the national champs so what does that say? CFB is so flawed. thats why there should be a tournament but stupid bowl game sponsors are complaining about their precious money.

  • ND has 14 national championships just like 8 heismans

  • we (ND) really won the national championship that year. if you disagree watch this game.

  • um you forget boston college. They lost the following week.

  • Thank god this game lived up to the hype. It seems like most the time when the media hypes certain games as "Game of the Century" type matchups, its usually a one sided blowout IMO.

  • fucken boston college beat ND a week later and fl st still won national championship oh Notre Dame win it this season

    GO Steelers

    Go Penguins

    Go Pirates

    Go Notre Dame

    from Pittsburgh but good Catholic got to love the Irish of ND!

  • Yeah, brother. Jerome Bettis came from Notre Dame, and he did very well as a Steeler. He is one reason why I like Notre Dame, and I hope he goes into the Hall of Fame.

  • he is the 5th all time leading rusher he better

    GO Steelers

    Go Penguins

    Go Pirates

    GO Notre Dame

  • As a Steeler fan, I was always conflicted with "The Bus," as a pro you can't deny he was a great Steeler....but as a college fan I still am haunted by the Snow Bowl.

    Can't deny what ND has accomplished no matter who you root for. This year they should be 10-2. BCS bound and where the Irish belong

  • HERE COME THE IRISH!!! part brought chills up my spine and i hate notre dame nice intro

  • I fell in love with Notre Dame Football after watching this video...

  • Chills. Greatest intro, backed by the greatest music. After Clausen's outstanding numbers against Hawaii following a better year than 07, it is clear that we are on the right track. The 'Brady Bunch' was something special, but it is time for a new group to bring respect back to ND. Blue-gray sky blog breaks it all down. GO IRISH

  • who won this game?

  • This is, without a doubt the best intro I have ever seen. HERE COME THE IRISH!!!