Without a doubt, one of my favorite Notre Dame wins. For not being known as a passer, Tony Rice was something special. I’ll take him as my QB against anyone. Dude was just a winner🍀
Thanks for posting this. Great memories I have of that time/period. 10/21/1989. Nice graphics add although actually by convention the road team score goes on the left or top, at least on American sports telecasts. Great stuff!
Shows you what they say about person's memories ... I watched this game 35 years ago or so and seemed to vividly recall that the whole contest was played entirely during daylight and that it ended on a controversial fumble that SC coughed up and the Irish recovered. But 'no' on both counts. I had no recollection of the pre-game fight, either. As I age, I'm getting my game highlights mixed up. 🏉
I'm not a Notre Dame fan, but I loved these teams coached by Lou Holtz. I still believe that Notre Dame deserved a share of the National Championship in 1989, as their schedule was unforgiving - ACC Champs Virginia, Pac10 and Rose Bowl Champs, USC, at Penn State, at Big Ten Champion Michigan, at a ranked Air Force team, and a top-ten Pittsburgh team. Then, they beat consensus #1 Colorado by two TDs in the Orange Bowl. Yes they had a 27-10 loss at Miami, but Miami had a similar 24-10 loss to Florida State. If Notre Dame lost to Miami in October instead of late November, I think that they would have had a share of the National Championship.
Yeah well when we lost the best HC since Lou, it’s going to be a while as Freeman isn’t the guy. We were under BK. 50+ wins in five straight seasons. Problem is that we had to do it in anonymity bc of the idea that it was a terrible season if you weren’t “Top 4”, which we weren’t under Lou for most of the time he was there. I loved Lou but there were five good years. Heck we beat #1 at home and nobody cared, as opposed to 1988, where it cemented the Irish’s team championship.
@@lynnerose7891 Completely wrong. BK is a middling coach, could never get over the hump, and was extremely lazy. There are great write ups of his excuses online, i'm not going to list them here. Lou was legendary. He was a great motivator, had us ready for every game, ESPECIALLY the ones that counted, unlike BK. Anytime we went into a top 10 game, both home or away, the team was prepared, & had EMOTION. ND had an extraordinary 85% win percentage behind Lou against Top 10. BK? 2 top 10 wins, 1 being against a team that turned out to be complete trash, in 12 years. That's mind numblingly terrible, especially for @ ND.
Huge call by refs around 1:12:23 that REALLY helped ND in this game. USC earned a first down on the second half's opening drive but refs ruled in ND's favor. USC had some (not tons) of success offensively in the first half and looked to be doing it again to start the second half. ND gets the ball and scores TD.
Hope you are able to post more of the older Notre Dame - USC games. Love to look back and watch alot of the games from this rivalry I remember from decades ago. I thought the games from 1987 - 1992 were pretty competitive. Any chance you could put up any of those?
Scotty Ross the big mouth 👄, also missed the go ahead td by rice, he over ran the play, he never got his name called after his first miss, he had quit in the 3rd quarter, players like him fire 🔥 up other teams , thanks Scott for the memories
Todd never beat Notre Dame, he just wasn’t that good, love the revenge by kovalowski at the end , love this game plus the next ten wins in a row, we own usc
Without a doubt, one of my favorite Notre Dame wins. For not being known as a passer, Tony Rice was something special. I’ll take him as my QB against anyone. Dude was just a winner🍀
100%. Tony Rice is a winner!!
Whoever made a idea of going back and re-putting a live scoreboard on this game. Was a genius.
Thanks for posting this. Great memories I have of that time/period. 10/21/1989. Nice graphics add although actually by convention the road team score goes on the left or top, at least on American sports telecasts. Great stuff!
Tony Rice was incredible in the Option...WOW these were the days....
Amen brother! Every kid who followed and rooted for Notre Dame back then wanted to be Tony Rice. The best of days!
The ND 89 team was arguably better than the 88 team.
Awesome upload, thank you!
Tony Rice - Always clutch!!!
Shows you what they say about person's memories ... I watched this game 35 years ago or so and seemed to vividly recall that the whole contest was played entirely during daylight and that it ended on a controversial fumble that SC coughed up and the Irish recovered. But 'no' on both counts. I had no recollection of the pre-game fight, either. As I age, I'm getting my game highlights mixed up. 🏉
Truly Amazing Win for ND! Overcame Numerous Mistakes and still found a Way! GO IRISH!!
I'm not a Notre Dame fan, but I loved these teams coached by Lou Holtz. I still believe that Notre Dame deserved a share of the National Championship in 1989, as their schedule was unforgiving - ACC Champs Virginia, Pac10 and Rose Bowl Champs, USC, at Penn State, at Big Ten Champion Michigan, at a ranked Air Force team, and a top-ten Pittsburgh team. Then, they beat consensus #1 Colorado by two TDs in the Orange Bowl. Yes they had a 27-10 loss at Miami, but Miami had a similar 24-10 loss to Florida State. If Notre Dame lost to Miami in October instead of late November, I think that they would have had a share of the National Championship.
I miss the days when team jerseys didn’t have those hideous sports apparel logos on them. Great game.
I miss being a powerhouse
Soon my friend.
Yeah well when we lost the best HC since Lou, it’s going to be a while as Freeman isn’t the guy.
We were under BK. 50+ wins in five straight seasons. Problem is that we had to do it in anonymity bc of the idea that it was a terrible season if you weren’t “Top 4”, which we weren’t under Lou for most of the time he was there. I loved Lou but there were five good years. Heck we beat #1 at home and nobody cared, as opposed to 1988, where it cemented the Irish’s team championship.
@@lynnerose7891 Completely wrong. BK is a middling coach, could never get over the hump, and was extremely lazy. There are great write ups of his excuses online, i'm not going to list them here.
Lou was legendary. He was a great motivator, had us ready for every game, ESPECIALLY the ones that counted, unlike BK. Anytime we went into a top 10 game, both home or away, the team was prepared, & had EMOTION.
ND had an extraordinary 85% win percentage behind Lou against Top 10.
BK? 2 top 10 wins, 1 being against a team that turned out to be complete trash, in 12 years. That's mind numblingly terrible, especially for @ ND.
Huge call by refs around 1:12:23 that REALLY helped ND in this game. USC earned a first down on the second half's opening drive but refs ruled in ND's favor. USC had some (not tons) of success offensively in the first half and looked to be doing it again to start the second half. ND gets the ball and scores TD.
Would love to see the 1991 USC Notre Dame game.
Kovalkoski getting revenge on Marijuanavich was epic
It's Kowalkowski and the freshman p!$$ed him off (and I'll bet that revenge was sweet!).
Hope you are able to post more of the older Notre Dame - USC games. Love to look back and watch alot of the games from this rivalry I remember from decades ago. I thought the games from 1987 - 1992 were pretty competitive. Any chance you could put up any of those?
Yes, Ronnie. I'm planning to put up more games concentrating on ND vs USC. Glad you enjoyed the game!
@@echosofnd8536 sir ty for the upload 👊
I never seen modern graphics added to some old school college football.
I miss this style of offense. I think ND would do so much better establishing a power run game again to setup the play action.
marinovich had a great stroke
Scotty Ross the big mouth 👄, also missed the go ahead td by rice, he over ran the play, he never got his name called after his first miss, he had quit in the 3rd quarter, players like him fire 🔥 up other teams , thanks Scott for the memories
Watching Scott Ross getting faked out on 4 th and 3 , turning point in this game
lol I forgot Scott Ross was on usc, lmao he was running his mouth before the game but couldn’t back it up on the field
I see Notre Dame couldn't cover USC John Jackson!
Todd number 13 tosses 3 picks just like number 13 this year calob tossed 3 in first half
23:24 while Tennessee and alabama are playing a scuffle broke out
That game was over before kickoff.
Todd never beat Notre Dame, he just wasn’t that good, love the revenge by kovalowski at the end , love this game plus the next ten wins in a row, we own usc
If usc wants respect don’t get crushed 13 years in a row !
Thank god pat Haden is not the announcer anymore, he was so bias
Actually none of the usc players ever beat Notre dame 0 zilch nota, plus the next 8 years of players never beat the Irish ☘️ , bunch of losers
JIP
1 player from each team committed suicide
Who committed suicide on Notre dame
@@sherleybozieuxJeff Alm.