Northwestern Wildcats vs. Notre Dame Highlights 9/2/95

[2013Boilermaker]

I expect this to happen again in 2014!! Go Big Ten! Beat that team in South Bend.

[nusportman]

This game goes down as one of the greatest games of all time!

[ultraollie]

Fitzgerald (no. 51 in these clips) now coaches Northwestern, no?

[shorewood2]

@ultraollie Yes.

[ChippewaDave]

@ultraollie Yes, Fitz is the coach-for-life at NU

[bigpoppabball]

The amazing thing about college football, how the histories of two entire programs can be radically changed by a single game.

[gubiotti]

schnur to bates...it's still music to my ears.

[gojenson]

the cocky cocky choir boys got out foxed that day. and what a great day it was!

[WhereTheCheeseAt]

im so glad to have met dwayne bates, when I was in 6th grade he came to my middle school in evanston

[TonyQuist1003]

I remember before the season started my dad joked were going to the Rose Bowl if Northwestern makes it. We never went but it just shows you no one expected it.

I remember NBC kept playing clips of training camp for Notre Dame. The announcer kinda joked well doesn't look like it is working today. I miss that season.

[Draven422]

Chris Martin at 7:00 is hilarious. He just walks through Lou Holtz to tease the camera. I know Fitzgerald gets all the attention on defense, and rightfully so, but Martin and Ismaeli were as good as it gets at the DB position.

[BobbHall]

This game was the turning point for BOTH programs. Neither has ever been the same.

[FrankeeFraud]

@BobbHall

Never thought of that, but you're right.

[TheStopmotionguy1000]

@BobbHall how

[BobbHall]

@TheStopmotionguy1000 -- surprised you had to ask...Noter Dame WAS a national power prior to this game and certainly is no longer; Northwestern WAS a "losing" program prior to this game and certainly is no longer.

[TheStopmotionguy1000]

@BobbHall well northwestern went to the rosebowl that season but has sucked since and havent wo a bowl and im a northwestern fan saying this

[clark5854]

I remember I was just starting the 10th grade and my dad and I watched this game. I remember (before I knew about football much) telling my dad ND may not win, and he was like yeah right. It's one of my lasting memories we spent together!

[antwon2015]

and thus began the decline of notre dame football

[chaz1227]

the day notre dame football died

[pooholest]

dwanye bates is my teacher

[rh086654]

hes your teacher? That awesome, i met him a few times and he was a nice guy.

[chaomei412]

I met him at an NU basketball game in Evanston a few years after this game. He was so well spoken, sincere and warm. A truly terrific guy.

[amazingfertilla123]

pat fitzgerald = BEAST player

beast coach

[greyfox37]

I'm an Irish fan and my Dad is an alum (I'm a University of Arizona alum, still Irish fan). Dad and I were like, boy, they had better be good. Then when they lost to Miami Ohio, we were pissed. After that, man, that was some team

[tntholc]

After NU beat Notre Dame, the amazing thing was that NU lost their next game to Miami of Ohio who were coached, I think, by Randy Walker. That would be the only loss for NU until the Rose Bowl. What an amazing year. Can this year's Cats go undefeated???

[amazingfertilla123]

well now twe lok at it no

[chicumbane]

Greatest NU football year ever...

[DnellG81]

That was a good season in college football...beginning of LSU's resurgance, really wish Ohio State had played Northwestern that year...I think it would have been classic.

[chicagodogrow]

I loved this season. We needed a Rose Bowl Victory. I'm still mad!

[zcat18]

Absolutely unbelievable. I graduated NU in '05, but I still remember this gem 10 years earlier. I was at the OSU victory, and it felt like I would imagine this one did, although we didn't make it to a bowl that year. Fitz is gonna take us to the promised land! Go Cats!

[Kryer98]

That was so inspiring.

[eblostic]

ND SUCKS

[longdukdong40]

Any other videos from that season? Like the game at Michigan or hosting Penn State?

[MGoBlueSl84]

That was a great Northwestern team. You had Barnett, who I think did his finest coaching at Northwestern, you had Heisman Trophy Finalist Darnell Autry at RB, a phenomenal player, and of course Pat Fitzgerald at linebacker. To win at Notre Dame and then to come to Ann Arbor and beat us showed that it indeed was a cinderella season for Northwestern.

[hankseptember]

Amazing Wildcat team...Barnett made a name for himself on that day...ND Football was going downhill for some reasons no one will ever really talk about :(

[carpedc22]

Thanks for posting this! The Cats will return to the top of the Big Ten this year--can't wait!!