Coach Kelley, what do you need in the second half? "Maybe Alabama doesn't come back out...." Best quote ever by a coach down by 4 tds in a championship game.
What else can I say about this title game except it deserves to burn in the fires of hell forever and no one defending it should be allowed to watch football in the future.
JSM Pac Man you’re right they will never win a title. Like they aren’t in second when it comes to most championships won. Believe they are at 11 last being in 1990. So much for never winning one. Football experts like you are so smart. Where was Alabama from 1995 to 2008? Oh completely irrelevant nearly getting the death penalty in 1999-2000. No I’m not a Notre Dame fan. Just like proving football experts that know nothing wrong.
Jonathan Partin how can you not defend it? Undefeated and under the BCS rankings they were in the top 2. That’s how it worked. Yet here we are with a 4 team playoff that is the BCS tweaked. Remind me again what happened in the playoffs? Clemson rolled over everyone? Funny it doesn’t go both ways though does it?
I don't, we're always gonna have at least 2 five star running backs on the team every year. People are gonna realize in the future the greatness that Tua brought to our team, yeah he didn't win championships his last two years due to injuries, but we knew when he was in and he was 100% healthy he was a freak like we have never seen in our uniform before. I'm gonna miss Tua bad, heck I don't even watch the NFL anymore since Peyton Manning retired but I just became a Miami dolphins fan because of Tua. Harris is gonna have a Heisman year as a running back this year, I believe he was the best overall running back in college last year and I thought he was a first round pick and he for sure will be one next year. Bryce young is gonna be a fun guy to watch and Tre Jones, we got awesome stuff ahead.
@@chiefearnest1450 Times are changing. Alabama had to run the spread to keep up with teams like Clemson, Oregon, and Oklahoma. The only way to beat the spread is to play the spread❗ look at the 2019 LSU tigers.
@@JB-zo7ln So all 2 times.? Dumbass.! Yeah. 2-2 in 4 games. Bama played in 4 straight Nattys bro. Think about that for a second. 4 playoff National Championship games.! One was 2nd and 26. A walk off TD pass to win the National Championship has NEVER been done before that or seen. Took Clemson 7 quarters 14 minutes and 59 seconds to FINALLY beat Bama. Pick play. Then we ran rough shot over Clemson 24-6 with Jalen. Tua puts up 42 in that game easy. Clemson is a great team. Bama is a dominate PROGRAM. Let me know when your team wins 11 or more games 10 games at the least, for 9 straight seasons too.! 2010, and no less than 11(2013,2019.) Okay.! Win 3 out of 4 Nationals in the foregone BCS Era. Then when it's even more difficult to reach the Natty. Play in 4 in a row and win 2 of those with 1 second being the reason for 2 and not 3. Let me know when your team does that okay.? Talk to you NEVER.!
This was the year that made me fall in love with the Irish. I remember watching this game painfully as an eight year old. I sure hope Marcus is that guy for us
Is going to be more pain ND is going to have to join the Big Ten now since some of the big rivals are in it. It’s not going to be the end of the world they join the Big ten for football and they make some much money anyway. What are they still trying to prove still being independent. NBC is with the Big Ten I think it will be sooner than later they will join the Big Ten.
@@robertmusgrave9236 they’re trying to prove they can play old and outdated rivals and easy teams. We’re the most beloved team in the country, and everyone wants us to win the whole thing. But Big 10 or no Big 10, we don’t stand a prayer
It makes it very tough to outscheme, makes you wonder if there was any way for Notre Dame to win this game, the problem of Alabama’s physical stature seemed even worse on defense. That’s one of the tough things about college ball unfortunately, in the NFL no matter how inferior your talent you can always scheme your way to a win if you’re clever enough. In college you had a title game that was definitely the correct matchup, had most of the country convinced the “holy Irish” were finally going to break the SEC’s streak as they seemed like a team of destiny, only to show up and seemingly have no chance because their speedy backs and receivers were still not faster than Alabama’s “slow” linemen
Friend that wen to the game told me that they held the Bama and ND players at the tunnel while waiting to take the field. The Bama players towered over the ND players.
I personally thought he fell that much in the draft cuz he was stupid & gullible enough to fall victim to a "catfisher" or whatever they call it. NFL Teams want intelligent players with some common sense. Why would a team want to draft someone that was a national laughing stock. Then they get pointed to & laughed at as well.
@@snowhiterover Damn that's a little harsh don't you think. Is there something you know that I don't. I mean yeah, the guy wasn't very smart and wasn't as great a linebacker as ND made him out to be. But I personally wouldn't call him a piece of shit unless he was doing something morally wrong. Like if he gets drunk & beats his girlfriend, then I'd agree. But damn, he never met his girlfriend in person. Which is really funny too, cuz I'm sure there would have been plenty of female Notre Dame fans/students that would have laid him. Oh but he's in love with a girl on-line that he's never really met. Kind of weird & stupid but not "a piece of shit". Have a good day. Football season is here.
Wonderful night for Alabama football I grew up watching this rivalry and it was so sweet to beat Notre Dame the way Alabama beat them that night for the National Championship RTR!!!.
Here I am in 2021, back re-watching this game. It strikes me that ND came in ranked #1, Bama #2. Gives you some idea of just how skewed the media's perception gets over ND. It came out weeks later that Bama players admitted ND was the 5th or 6th best team they'd played all year. I guess that's what you get when you attempt to calibrate talent across conferences that don't play each other much. Personally, I think it's a shame Te'o got all those awards (not that he wasn't a good player, btw) because if he would've played in the SEC, he might not make 2nd team conf, much less 1st. Don't believe me? Go back and watch this tape. Look at the talent gap. Then consider the competitive games Bama was in with other SEC teams. This game was over after one quarter, and every player/every coach on that field knew it. ND players stating their post-game narrative, "They were just a better team today" was a compete joke. No disrespect meant. Just truthin'.
They were only #1 because of the BCS system. Despite having so many close wins, they were undefeated, and that was enough for the BCS. Had the CFP existed back then, I'm sure Alabama would've been #1, and maybe they could've faced a tougher opponent.
@@joeykeenan2079 probably not, in the CFP, ND would likely have been #2 and faced K-State for the first round The Conference Champs and Notre Dame Stanford(losses: Notre Dame and Washington) Florida State(losses: Florida and NC State) Alabama (loss: TAMU) Notre Dame (no losses, key wins: Stanford and Oklahoma) Oklahoma(losses: Notre Dame and K-State) and Oklahoma State(loss: Baylor) not Nebraska(lost to Wisconsin, who qualified because OSU and PSU were bowl/CCG-banned
A big ND fan asked me at work what I thought would happen... I said a blowout.. He went nuts rambling about the best offensive line and all sorts of other stuff.. I'm like, you have one TE that was awesome and the only player I was worried about, your DBs haven't faced anyone and will look clueless. Our RBs are going to murder you.. Guess I was right.
What are you talking about? Notre Dame was rightly #1 as they hadn’t lost and Alabama had. In college ball if you’re a power 5 school and undefeated, you are almost automatically ranked higher than any teams with a loss. The only time an undefeated team would usually get ranked lower than a team with a loss is if the undefeated team plays in a lower-tier conference, such as Utah in 2005 when they played in the MWC, Boise St in 2007 when they played in the WAC, and Northern Illinois in 2012 when they played in the MAC. Notre Dame is independent but of course is considered a power; ND’s athletic director Jack Swarbrick is even treated equivalent to the commissioners of the power 5 conferences.
This was a fantastic season to watch. Every single game I was on the edge of my seat against below average unranked teams such as Pittsburgh BYU Boston College and purdue! And once we played a real team in a BCS bowl game we get dominated like always! Love me some typical Notre Dame seasons Go Irish !!!!!! ☘️☘️☘️
I remember being in school down here in Alabama and having Auburn fans and LSU fans talking the Irish up. I said at one point "We are gonna run it up the middle and watch em struggle for air trying to stop us"
Dude....Bama has destroyed plenty of teams. ND beat the Pac 12 and Big 12 champs that season and beat 9 bowl teams en route to 12-0. Bama has just been a dynasty in this current era.
I remember this disaster. Notre Dame essentially lost this game because they completely failed to plan properly for Alabama. Brian Kelly that year thought the Irish could simply follow the same plan they'd worked the entire season and make no adjustments and they paid the price. Nick Saban knew what to expect. He prepared and Brian Kelly didn't. And that's why Alabama left the field with the trophy.
@Sloan Champion What coach? Brian Kelly doesn’t qualify. This was just the first example of him completely imploding when it counts. Sure, he can beat cupcakes...most of the time and sometimes by not very much, but EVERY time he’s had the opportunity to show the nation that ND is a credible team and nationally relevant again he chokes. Because he has no game plan, doesn’t adjust accordingly, he obviously doesn’t prep his players well enough, he’s not a good motivator, he’s a bad recruiter, he’s better now, but earlier in his career he was an embarrassment to the University due to his purple faced rants, not to mention assaulting his own sideline assistant. Why he’s been there for 10 years is beyond me.
@@Whoopdido777 yeah, maybe, but its a real short list when you look at coaches who have gone undefeated 12-0 multiple seasons in the past 7 or 8 years.
Nah bruh heres the facts about Alabama and Notre Dame (This goes out to #TROLLTIDENATION) Notre Dame has 22 undefeated seasons-A|labama has 10 Notre Dame has 22 polled national titles-Alabama 21 Notre Dame has 7 heisman winners-Alabama 2... Notre Dame is 4-0 against The Legendary Bear Bryant(|yet after losing 24-23 in 1973 national title the tide claims that along with 12 other gimpy seasons baha! suck it forever tbe go irish baby! ARROGANTTIDEMUCH
Cboesch Music And what does any of that have to do with the Irises getting the licorice beat out of them in this game? Nice try though. Next time let’s have a spelling contest!
@@Cboesch_Music Notre Dame hasn't truly been relevant in 32 years, they were able to maneuver a truly weak schedule to match up with a team that they didn't stand a chance in beating. The last 12 years for Alabama is the greatest run in the history of college football. Alabama has 6 natonal titles since Notre Dame won in 1988, over 40% of people living in the US weren't even born the last time ND won anything of significance. I know this must really sting but this is CURRENT, not 1919 we are talking about. The 22 polled national titles from 100 years ago, you just have to laugh! Also, 1966 shouldn't have been "given" to ND because Alabama was the 2 time defending champion and went undefeated and killed Nebraska in their bowl game. The bias shown Notre Dame in the past was appalling, now people just feel sorry for them. The sportwriter bias is what helped them get the titles that they have, they had help! Now that bias has turned on them, sportwriters don't give them the benefit of the doubt and are very skeptical if they are a quality team. This game helped cement that narrative for years to come!
ROLL TIDE # 1ALABAMA Y'ALL; BEST TEAM EVER FROM PA. FORMER RESIDENT OF ANNISTON,AL 10/89-3/90. FUTURE COACH IN WAITING DABO COULD REPLACE SABAN IN FUTURE.
What qualifies you as a expert/besides your smart mouth?i've been watching football for over 40 years,and i believe the 2012 team could beat anybody,and i stand by it.
I have been a fan of notre dame since i grew up in the 60s in south bend .1963 was my first game.in person.now im glad they gonna show alabama where its at.i knew they would have to play nd soon or later. They cant hide anymore.
I can remember watching this game and literally said after Bama's first series, "it's over". ND could not cover the out routes and certainly had nothing for the running game. A complete ass whipping.
After watching this several times, it's fun to pick out some of the ridiculous scenes: Cooper's reception to make it 35-0, there's the ND cheerleader arguing with the ref that Cooper stepped out of bounds. 😆
Bama has destroyed plenty of teams. ND beat the Pac 12 and Big 12 champs that season and beat 9 bowl teams en route to 12-0. Bama has just been a dynasty in this current era. I don't know why people want to trash ND so much that they ignore that this ass whooping had less to do with ND and more to do with Bama. How quickly people forget the multiple beatings Bama has delivered to different programs under Saban. I don't think this natty game discredits ND as much as reaffirms Bama's dominance.
What about bama journey thru the sec that year,The LSU'S , Georgia, Auburn, TEX a&m a good Arkansas that year Penn state a year earlier and tough sec schedule year before.
what's laughable is how Herbstreit and Musberger have to keep this charade going on all night! They should have played LSU or Florida or any other SEC team again. Notre Dame looks like Western Kentucky or similar in this. I love the effort on Kirk and Brent's part but they can't put lipstick on a pig and, for lack of any other reason, everytime ND gets even close to the BCS qualifications they will be in the game...and that is sad..
@@Joekidd1961 Alabama backed doored their way in that year.(Well they did against LSU too but Oregon was a 2 loss team and lost to LSU so their was less of an argument for Oregon that year) If Oregon or Kansas St didn't slip up Alabama wouldn't have been in the title game. I'd still argue that Oregon was a better team that year because they were controlling the Stanford game until the end while Alabama had to come back against Texas A&M just to make it respectable.
Im a Notre Dame fan, why the hell am I watching this again??? Wow was that bama team stacked. Really wish that TCU had beaten Baylor that year... could have gotten a nice easy NC win as opposed to this destruction. Oh well, glad there is a playoff now!!
+Raymond In the above comment i meant i wish KSU, not TCU, had beaten Baylor that year as I believe that ND was a better team than KSU who would have been in the NC game without the loss to Baylor. I'm sorry for the confusion there. I'm sorry that I wrote in the wrong team by accident. That said Ray... yes if ND had played 7-6 TCU in the NC game in 2012, Im even more confident that ND would have won the NC game (as opposed to playing KSU). The 2012 ND team beat the 2 common opponents that ND and TCU had that year. (Btw TCU lost to those 2 opponents., MSU, OU) I very much doubt that many people would disagree or find laughable that the 2012 ND team that went 12-1 would be heavily favored in a matchup with the "powerhouse" 7-6 2012 TCU team. I think you exposed yourself as a very uninformed football fan with your previous comment and I would assume that your next post will be a retraction of your previous comment and a heartfelt letter promising that next time you comment on college football you will put a disclaimer before your comment that you are in fact a simpleton with a rudimentary at best understanding of american football and that your opinion is for entertainment purposes only and should be viewed with the knowledge that the author is less intelligent than any person who may view the comment... That said Alabama won the NC in 2012 (deservedly so) and needed KSU to lose to get back into the NC picture.
Watching this 8 years later is weird. I was in Gulf Shores AL then and the guys I hung with would have to take ceremonial shots of what ever liquor we had after every Bama score. I was Hammered by the first quarter and on my ass by the time it was all said and done
Norte Dame had no reason to be in that stadium.... It should have been Tx A&M. This national championship proved in the most clear and direct manner that the BCS was flawed and needed to go. The average player on the Alabama team was as large or larger than Norte Dame’s largest player. The discipline on the Alabama team was head and shoulders above the Norte Dame teams discipline. This was a beat down of a low level college football program by a high level college football program set up by the BCS.
i hate when GIRLS die! That’s why ND fans were so happy after their team got used like a rag after drunken sex. Because they were soooo good and deserved to be in that stadium.... keep telling yourself that ND will be great again. Beautiful campus at ND BTW, I visited there once, I was shocked at the surrounding city,,, do y’all blindfold your new recruits until they get to the campus?
Looking back at this game though the score was lopsided, ND just played bad. Guys were open and defenders were in the right positions at times but they just didn’t execute. Will be interesting to see this this game again.
You can also thank the Pac 12 refs. Them screwing Oregon every year caused these games to happen. If Oregon didn't lose to USC by a field goal they would have likely got a rematch against LSU. If Oregon didn't lose an overtime game to Stanford they would have definitely played Notre Dame because those would have been the only unbeaten teams
Back in the day, I heard a lot of fans complain about the kick catch interference call in the first quarter - more from fans of schools who were not in the game. Granted, the head ref said the foul was by #41. #41 was blocked into the Bama fair catch player by a Bama blocker. That caused the muffed catch but it was not a foul. However, Notre Dame player #9 did interfere with the fair catch. Once a fair catch has been called, the kicking team may not have contact with the ball nor the receiving player until the ball touches the ground or another player of the receiving team. Even if muffed, the receiving player still has exclusive right to recover the ball provided it hasn't touched the ground. As soon as the Bama played muffed the catch, ND #9 ran into the Bama player touching both the Bama fair catch and the ball while the ball was still in the air. #9 should have waited until the ball touched the ground. The ref who threw the flag didn't throw it until #9 prevented the the fair catch player from recovering the ball. The head ref never talked to the ref who threw the flag instead assumed the foul was on #41. I don't think the ref who threw the flag was throwing it on #41.
“Maybe Alabama doesn’t come back in the second half..”😂 Notre Dame better hope they don’t play Bama. They might learn again what an actual conference is like.
The Jones push was the hardest hit McCarron took all night. Notre Dame got to this game on their name and payoffs, talent was sub par at best and they got exposed, embarrassed and humiliated on national tv, be careful what you ask for, lol
A day before this game a news crew was interviewing players from both teams. Reporter to ND player “ how is Miami?” ND player “ wow, it’s been so nice the people the fans, the restaurants just so much fun” Reporter to Alabama player “ how’s Miami?” Alabama player ( looks around with a quirky look) “ we have a game to win, I’ll check out Miami after we win.” I knew that this was going to be a beat down right there, an ugly beat down. ND lost this game before they got on the bus to go to the airport to fly down to Miami.
personally i like musberger and herbie,they always give alabama their props,they don't vote for whos's no.1.i think some at CBS,don't like alabama.Musberger was trying keep viewers watching.he saw early that bama was going to stomp notre dame.
+okrajoe ND Statistically was suppose be the best D in NCAA that year just barely in front of Alabama in a few spots like points allowed and yards per game. Teo was a overhyped LB who was a Heisman candidate who they "thought" would slow down Alabama's rushing attack...instead he froze when he was left in the open or got trucked.
+MCG55SS Notre Dame was way overrated. They barely beat Pitt...so I knew Bama was going to kill them..Hell Lacey was bigger than Teo so I know Teo would not be a factor.
Alabama rushed for 265 yards and passed for 264 vs ND. 529 yards of Whoop Ass. 42-14 The Tide by a Mile. OUCH that still hurts said my ND co-worker. He said he died that night. So did ND. Have not done shit since.
Two things sealed our fate in this game... The horrible call of incomplete by the officials on the sideline with Eifert securing the catch and the no fumble call on the punt (you can't engage and block the opposing player into the restricted zone of the returner). Wind was knocked out of us from then on.
I am the last thing from a Bama fan, but I was infuriated when Notre Dame was allowed to play in this game. Anyone who knows anything about college football knew Notre Dame had no right to be on the same field as that Bama team. Notre Dame barely escaped two games early in the season from their self-made powderpuff schedule against inferior teams, and as per usual the cucks in the media shoved them into the BCS championship for doing undefeated in a scrub schedule. This beatdown was so satisfying to watch. Notre Dame is not an elite program, and it's far past time anyone considers them as such.
They are still doing this there going to have to join a conference sooner than later NBC has the deal with the Big Ten before they were always on TV with NBC but the money is going to be less and less sooner now. Their future is going to have to be joining the Big Ten.
I remember my great friend talking to me about this game upcoming and saying idk man Notre Dame has something this year. Bama is good but I think the Irish may take it this year. I was like ummm no. The sec championship was the national championship game. This will be a lopsided victory for Bama.
I'm an Oregon fan and this game depresses me because it should have been Notre Dame vs Oregon. Oregon was 2 games away from being unbeaten and they lost to Stanford in a game which they controlled the whole time. Even with the loss Oregon's loss was similar to Alabama's loss so you could argue that Oregon should have still been in the game.
This game is a great example of why the present CFB Playoff system was needed; in the latter scenario ND gets wiped out in the first round and never makes it to title game...
@@ethanteague5654 maybe not Oregon, Stanford(team who defeated Oregon and won the PAC-12) would have been either the 4/5 team Realistically Alabama vs Stanford/Florida Notre Dame vs K-State I think K-State might have been shown to be frauds after R1 though
@@ethanteague5654 maybe not Oregon, Stanford(team who defeated Oregon and won the PAC-12) would have been either the 4/5 team Realistically Alabama vs Stanford/Florida Notre Dame vs K-State I think K-State might have been shown to be frauds after R1 though
One of my favorite things is between the end of the texas game, the lsu game, and until the 3rd of this one, no one scored on alabama in a championship game. Id love to see that record be broken but cmon...
Does Kirk herbstreit ever age? Damn I’ve been watching this man since 2005 and literally he looks the same I don’t even think he’s changed his haircut...
as a notre dame fan i was totally embarrassed by their shitty performance. i kept hearing them say "we didn't execute" motherfuckers you couldn't execute. this game still pisses me off
It was the greatest fucking thing I've ever seen, I still jerk off everytime I think of the destruction of a completely(as fucking usual) OVERRATED Notre lame team...
Greg - Bama fan here. I hear you but also felt a few things bounced Bama's way that night too. They got some breaks. Hopefully ND and Bama do a home & away in the future. Just like the old days
Bama has destroyed plenty of teams. ND beat the Pac 12 and Big 12 champs that season and beat 9 bowl teams en route to 12-0. Bama has just been a dynasty in this current era. I don't know why people want to trash ND so much that they ignore that this ass whooping had less to do with ND and more to do with Bama. How quickly people forget the multiple beatings Bama has delivered to different programs under Saban. I don't think this natty game discredits ND as much as reaffirms Bama's dominance.
The Notre Dame fans thought they had won the national championship when their defense made a good play on the game's first play from scrimmage. Turns out the game would go on for quite a while after that.
This game needed to happen for the good of college football. They should not allow Notre Dame to play in future championship games or this will happen again. Overrated every year and play no one. Bama kicked that ass
good every year....go change your diaper nancy....well maybe in 1932....what a dumbass...let me guess...think you piss ant gold helmets will be in the mix for a championship?....vote Hillary....then the Dame will be like Nashville...no one speaking English, 7 kids in toe and shit dried on the floor of your bathrooms.....its not far off...enjoy that beautiful place...I have been there...its mexica not America,,,,watch
