Wake Up The Echoes Or Just Wake Up And Tomorrow That Brings Notre Dame In The ‘off final

In ’77 they/Notre Dame were upset at Mississippi in the season’s second game, but somehow ranked 5th and Cotton Bowl winners vs top ranked Texas, they “vaulted” Alabama, a la ’66, and claimed the mythical national college football crown.

This season losing as 28 point or so favorites, again the tilt was in the second week, this at home to Northern Illinois, one would have thought Notre Dame would have been out of it.

Instead they just rode a man named Jeter’s field goal (always was a link between them and the Yankees, as each for so many years defined greatness and even the greatest–another Jeter played on 5 Yankees’ title teams) to the title game vs either Texas or Ohio State, when they finally will be real underdogs, (bigger underdogs vs Ohio State which is a 6 point favorite vs Texas in Friday’s “semi.”

Beano Cook who died into the 2012 season, when Notre Dame would have made him big $$, always said you have to get them, the tv and national darlings they are, two losses.

Certainly with the 12 team ‘off and a ridiculous bracket, both they and Penn State benefitted, Penn State even more so, to make the semi.

Despite some of “this,” give Notre Dame credit under coach Marcus Freeman and such players as Duke portal transfer Riley Leonard and a Greathouse, who stood out in the semi.

Jaden Greathouse, pictured above.