CBS Sports: NCAA Basketball 1982- Final Four Semifinal- Georgetown Hoyas vs Louisville Cardinals: Full Game

Source:Justin Bowen– Louisville & Georgetown in 1982 

“Louisville vs Georgetown 1982 NCAA Final Four (FULL GAME)”

Source:Justin Bowen

Hoyas head coach John Thompson’s first trip to the final four and they beat the 1980 national champion Louisville Cardinals. When you look at this game you see a lot of NBA talent in it. Including Hall of Famer Pat Ewing and Eric Floyd for the Hoyas. The Louisville Cardinals had Rodney McCray, who had a very solid career and was a key role player for the Houston Rockets on their 1986 NBA Finals team. Derek Smith, a very talented guard/forward, but dealt with leg injuries his whole NBA career. Which limited his time and production.

The two head coaches with Denny Crum for the Cardinals and John Thompson for the Hoyas, are both in the Hall of Fame. The Cardinals won the National Championship just two years earlier. The 1980s was a great decade for them and they would win the championship again in 1986. The Hoyas played in three Finals Fours in the 1980s and won the championship in 1984. This was a matchup between two of the top basketball programs and head coaches in the 1980s. And was a great game as a result.

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CBS Sports: NCAA Basketball 1993-East Regional 2nd Round: St. John’s Redmen @ Arkansas Razorbacks: Full Game

Source:CBS Sports – with the St. Johns Redmen and Arkansas Razorbacks from 1993.

“***RE-UPLOAD for the third (and hopefully final) time due to video shaking issues and video content ID’s.

Shawnelle Scott, David Cain and the fifth-seeded St. John’s (NYC) Redmen, take on Scotty Thurman, Darrell Hawkins and the fourth-seeded Arkansas Razorbacks in NCAA East Regional 2nd Round Action.

Game played on Saturday, March 20, 1993 at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

I DO NOT OWN RIGHTS TO THIS VIDEO. Credits go to the NCAA, CBS Sports, St. John’s (NYC) University and the University of Arkansas. Used in conjunction with Fair Use Laws.”

From The Cozzman 89

Interesting matchup with a traditional basketball power like St. John’s vs an up-incoming power in Arkansas.

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CBS Sports: FBS 1977- Cotton Bowl- Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs Texas Longhorns: Full Game

Source:CBS Sports with the 1977-78 Cotton Bowl.

“1978 Cotton Bowl Texas vs Notre Dame 1 2 1978”

From Virgil Moody

Great game that I have on DVD and also a big game from Joe Montana who was already starting to make a name for himself as a great fourth quarter and comeback QB.

Montana wasn’t a great college QB in the sense that he would have several great years at Notre Dame. When the San Francisco 49ers drafted him in 1979 they were taking a risk because he was somewhat slightly built at Notre Dame and got hurt a lot. Even though he had great footwork, mobility, good arm as far as touch, accuracy, and could even throw the ball long and hard.

Joe Montana’s college football numbers are nothing compared with the consistent career he had in San Francisco. It’s in the NFL with the 49ers where he starts to put great seasons together one after the other. At Notre Dame he was somewhat inconsistent and dealt with injuries.

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NBC Sports: FBS 1992- Pennsylvania Nittany Lions @ Notre Dame Fighting Irish: Full Game

Source:Notre Dame Fighting Irish– playing the Penn State Nittany Lions in 1992.

“On Nov. 14, 1992, the Fighting Irish met the Penn State Nittany Lions on a snowy Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium. Trailing 16-9 with 25 seconds remaining, Notre Dame quarterback Rick Mirer (‘93) threw a touchdown pass to Jerome Bettis to pull the Irish within one point. In the days before overtime, head coach Lou Holtz elected to go for the win. He drew up a two-point conversion play on the sidelines, and as they say, the rest is history. Mirer found Reggie Brooks (’93) in the back of the end zone, lifting Notre Dame to a 17-16 victory.”

From the Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Penn State-Notre Dame, was one of the better college football rivalries in the 1980s and early 1990s. And it’s just a shame that they still aren’t playing. And I believe one of the weakness’ of Notre Dame not being part of a conference because a lot of their big rivalries wouldn’t have to end, because of where they are located, if they could’ve been in the Big Ten or Big East. And never have to stop playing Michigan or Purdue or Penn State or West Virginia, Syracuse, Boston, because they would likely be in the same conference as most if not all of these teams.

The Big East, would make a great comeback in football if Notre Dame was part of it. And they bring back Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Syracuse. Add Penn State and perhaps Buffalo and you would have a great conference with Notre Dame as perhaps the top program in it.

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NBC Sports: FBS 1993- Pittsburgh Panthers @ Notre Dame Fighting Irish: Full Game

Source:NBC Sports– WR Lake Dawson would also go on to play in the NFL for the Kansas City Chiefs.

“Notre Dame handed Pittsburgh a stinging defeat as the Irish marched to a 44-0 victory.

The full game is available for a limited time only exclusively on The Fighting Irish Youtube channel. For more games check out the full “The Vault: ND on NBC” playlist.”

From the Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Talk about your total mismatches: the Pittsburgh Panthers have a great football tradition, at least until went downhill in the early 1990s and were no longer a winning program, let alone a consistent bowl team or national championship contender. Perhaps the main reason why head coach Johnny Majors left the Tennessee Volunteers, where he built a consistent Southeast Conference contender there in the 1980s, was to rebuild the Pittsburgh Panthers football program.

And then you look at the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, where they were a bowl team every year under head coach Lou Holtz, except his first season in 1986, won the national championship in 1988, contended for the national championship in 1989 and were looking to win another championship in 1993, and are playing the Pittsburgh Panthers who entered this game at 1-3. It’s hard to see how the Panthers can even compete with the undefeated Irish, especially at Notre Dame.

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CBS Sports: FBS 1977- Notre Dame Fighting Irish @ Clemson Tigers

Source:Sop Ibaga– with this 1977 Irish-Tigers game.

“Game played November 12, 1977. Notre Dame won the national championship that year. Thanks to MyBloodRunnethOrange for this video. The 1979 game: .

In a classic showdown in 1977 between two top 15 teams, Notre Dame’s Joe Montana leads the Fighting Irish back from a 10-point 4th quarter deficit against .

The Catch Game, played November 19, 1977. Thanks to MyBloodRunnethOrange for the video copy. The Catch at 2:14:56.”

From Sop Ibaga

A classic matchup between two great football programs. The Fighting Irish have been one of the premier college football programs in the entire history of NCAA football. The Tigers were just starting emerge as a national, college football, power, in the late 1970s.

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CBS Sports: FBS 1989- Notre Dame Fighting Irish @ Miami Florida Hurricanes: Full Game

Source:CBS Sports– with this 1989 Fighting Irish-Hurricanes game.

“Nov 25, 1989. Miami beats #1 Notre Dame 27-10 at the Orange Bowl. This Broadcast is from CBS.”

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ABC Sports: FBS 1991- Pennsylvania Nittany Lions @ Miami Florida Hurricanes: Full Game

Source:ABC Sports– with this 1991 Nittany Lions-Hurricanes game.

“Oct 12,1991. Miami beats Penn St 26-20. This broadcast was from ABC. The game was JIP in the 1st Quarter and was preempted in the third quarter because of the Senate Hearings on Clarence Thomas.”

From CMB 7686

Miami and Penn State played several classic games against each other in the 1980s and early 90s.

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CBS Sports: FBS 1988- Pennsylvania Nittany Lions @ Alabama Crimson Tide: Highlights

Source:Bama Rewind– with this 1988 Nittany Lions-Crimson Tide game.

“The 4-2 Penn State Nittany Lions traveled to Birmingham, AL to face the 4-1 Alabama Crimson Tide. Derrick Thomas had a game for the ages.”

From Bama Rewind

This was a great rivalry in the 1980s.

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NBC Sports: FBS 1986- National Championship- Pennsylvania Nittany Lions vs Miami Florida Hurricanes: Full Game

Source:NBC Sports– with the 1986 NCAA Football National Championship.

“🏈1986 National Championship: #1 Miami (Fl) v. #2 Penn State (1987 Fiesta Bowl)”

From Jeff McDaniel

If you look at this matchup, I don’t want to say it looks like a mismatch on paper, but when you consider all the future NFL players on the Miami Hurricanes roster, including Pro Bowlers like Vinnie Testeverde, Michael Irvin, and many others and the Pennsylvania Nittany Lions starting QB not even completing 50% of his passes, playing for a team that had to have a great defense and running game, just to win games, the game being played in hot weather, with all the speed that the Hurricanes had, it’s a wonder how the Nittany Lions even made this game close, let alone won the game.

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