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The Last Golden Age: The Lou Holtz Era Of Notre Dame Football History

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The glorious legacy of Notre Dame football history is no secret. Neither are the program’s current struggles, at least relative to the expectations of a traditional national power. That’s what makes Lou Holtz’s tenure in South Bend, from 1986-96, stand out. The Last Golden Age is a season-by-season narrative on each year of the Holtz era

Under-The-Radar Sports History: The 1978 Orange Bowl

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This post is part of a series of sports history articles commemorating under-the-radar teams and moments in a given year. This article about the Arkansas-Oklahoma Orange Bowl game that followed the 1977 college football season marks a major upset that had huge repercussions on the national title race that season and future seasons to come.