FULL GAME | The Snow Bowl (Notre Dame Football vs Penn State, 1992)
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- 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.
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Growing up in a heavily Irish area of Pennsylvania, this was the Super Bowl every year. It was almost always an amazing game. The good old days of smashmouth football
Holy shit! I'm From a little town called Pittston, Between Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. We still live and die with Every Notre Dame game. I have a 47 year old Notre Dame Hat that my grandfather wore. Priceless commodity (as far as i'm concerned). Love to hear stories from others about their Notre Dame experiences.
I was 9, from Avoca. I liked both teams when I was young, Penn State would’ve won three straight over Notre Dame if they won this game so I wanted Notre Dame to win. By the end of the game, I was Notre Dame from that point on and I still hate Penn State
@@gordonshumway5933 Notre Dame fans are NOT wanted in PA --- so GET OUT
@@kerzytibok3211. You’d have to kick out a lot of Catholics then😂😂😂😂
I know right it's apart of our DNA 😂😅
Those penn state teams in the 80s and 90s were a real menace to the irish
I love the "oh well" look on Joe Paterno's face at the two point conversion at the end!
@@snoopydog3328 #JoeKnew
I remember playing this moment in NCAA Football 2005 for PS2. It was one of the Pontiac College Classic Moments you had to beat
It will never be this good again folks.
Notre Dame: Your uniforms were the absolute best when Champion made them. What happened???? This was a great win, great team...congrats.
Absolutely!! Those mustard looking pants are just awful!
Yeah the pants color just looks off these days. Im surprised ND would ever leave a company called Champion given the famous sign in their locker room.
They have had the same uniforms for 200 years what are you talking about
@@hotpepper5125 LOL! There are differences, but yes, overall concept is pretty much the same!
@@hotpepper5125 not even close to the same... Wtf
Man they were hitting, and with that blistering cold, old school smash mouth football.
Reggie Brooks was special. Averaged 8.3 yards per for the year, that's crazy!
He was special. And he really bailed out Mirer on the two-point conversion. Lake Dawson was WIDE open as the play was designed, and Mirer didn't pull the trigger on the throw. Reggie saved him with a great catch after the scramble.
This game still makes me nervous and gives me chills. What a game - what a team!
I'm okay if there's a pandemic every year as long as you guys keep posting these classics.
I remember watching the final moments of this game like it was yesterday.
The Irish had a loss and a tie coming in and were effectively out of the championship hunt. So glad they went for 2.
Mirer, Bettis, and Brooks: Possibly the best I-Formation that I've ever seen at Notre Dame.
Powlus, Edwards, Kinder, and Denson were pretty good too...
That was the year of "The Heisman Backfield"! An amazing time to be a Notre Dame fan, and a College Football fan in general!
Lived in South Bend from 8/92 - 5/93. Will always remember this Saturday afternoon
they need to put penn state back on their schedule
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Also Miami and Michigan.
@@allengreene9954 damn straight
@@igorslocks But sadly with these “Super Conferences” (which I hate) coming in the next few I highly doubt that Notre Dame and Penn State will play at all for a long time…..
@@allengreene9954 yeah but you never know, ND could finally be Big10 bound like so many have wanted for so long 🤔 But I agree with you as far as the super conferences were are about to get will have an adverse effect on some great rivalries. And those type of games are what makes college football so damn good
Rick Mirer wore the same number as Joe Montana.
Oddly enough, he also looked like a young Montana.
That 2-point play. Almost the same rollout, pump, then throw.
Very similar to "The Catch" from the SF vs. Dallas game. That started the Montana legacy.
I watched the game on TV and I was rooting for Notre Dame to beat Penn State. I have been a fan of ND football since 1964' When Notre Dame beat Penn State 17-16, I went to the Charing Cross bar and grill in Georgetown, DC to have some good food and 6 beers to celebrate the ND victory with some of my friends. I will also root for Notre Dame and I have that Notre Dame football independent spirit. What a great throw by quarterback Rick Mirer to Reggie Brooks for the 2-point conversion for that heart-wrenching, dramatic 17-16 win over the Nittany Lions of Penn State. GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember that game as if it were yesterday. I played the entire game and let me tell you, I was punched, beat and kicked around like a borrowed mule. Yep, that was me.....I was the football!
I liked Tom and Chris ! I wish they would've stayed doing the games together forever! Go Irish!
when college football used to be special. this is what they took from us.
I always had bittersweet feelings about this game --- I'm a Penn State grad and fan --- but I'm also a Steelers fan and loved having Bettis on my team!
The 88-93 years of ND was great regardless of only one Championship.
I lived in SB and would root against ND because I liked Miami.....man I miss when the Canes or Seminoles ( Charlie Ward ) came to town. ND was tough
Two great college coaches Lou Holtz and Joe Paterno
One great college coach. This was a great game and a tremendous win for ND, but it makes me shudder to think of the horrors going on in the Penn State locker rooms during all those years, that Paterno knew about and helped cover up along with the Penn State administration. Sickening.
@@miket5377 Look dude...cut the bullsh!t propaganda. Paterno had no clue of anything going on....You really think Paterno would let a former assistant into the facility to abuse kids?
When Paterno heard of something the next day of an abuse claim he notified the AD, School President and Head of Security.
Also, the PA Attorney General proceeded to investigate the former coach and couldn’t catch the guy. People were unaware the former coach was even being investigated as a serial predator by various law enforcement.
@@LineMountain Paterno DID know. Stop living in a dreamland. A head coach knows everything that goes on at a place like PSU. He knew about it, and covered for him. Only PSU people still believe the delusion that he didn't know. Remember this, outside of "Happy Valley" nobody thinks of Penn State anymore except for one thing - the place kids were raped for years while the head coach and administration looked the other way.
@@miket5377 You are delusional. You have no proof that Paterno knew anything. You have no proof that he covered up anything. Zip zero nada.
@@miket5377 Paterno had nothing to do with the former assistant who retired in ‘99. He had a football program to run.
This was one of Joe Paterno’s most underachieving teams. Very talented PSU team though.
PSU had a tough ‘92 schedule but it was a limbo season, they started playing a B1G schedule in ‘93.
It was also one of ND's underachieving teams. Everyone was pissed that they got the Sugar Bowl bid to play Florida- 2:25:38
@@ebenezergatsby5848. That was the Previous Year.
@@ebenezergatsby5848. That was the Year Before. Notre Dame in 92 went 10-1-1 with a Demolishing Victory over Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl.
I just thought about something. Mirer replaced Beuerlein as the total offense leader. Then a few years after this happened, Beuerlein replaced Penn State's starting QB Kerry Collins as the starter for the Carolina Panthers.
This was my first ND game and I was freezing.. even as a German i didn’t expect such a blizzard..
It rarely gets that way anymore. Most of the time winters are very mild even in n the 60s is n and off all through winter
For some reason almost every PSU - ND game was reallllyyyy cold w/ snow!!
I'm Irish German but a psu fan we are Penn state
@@LineMountain LOL!
I loved ND old grass field hate the turf just not ND anymore to me. Back then the stadium was electric
ND should consider using a hybrid surface, many premier league teams use grass with turf fibers mixed in. As do the Packers, Eagles and Broncos of the NFL.
It still looks and plays like real grass but it stands up better than a completely natural surface.
I'm probably wrong about this but is that Chris collinsworth as one of the commentators?
Ya it is man. I think also, he was working for NBC too around the early 90's or something like that.
@@justinlowney1332 Cris Collinsworth is a great NFL analyst in the 90s on NBC
@@justinlowney1332 he worked for NBC from pretty much his retirement until NBC lost the rights to the AFC sunday afternoon package in 97 (he and Tom Hammond used to do NFL games too), he went to Fox after and returned for NBC in 2010.
Great NCAA football game
1992, when you could talk about OJ Simpson, while showing Joe Paterno on screen, and nobody thought anything about it.
Look dude...cut the bullsh!t propaganda. Paterno had no clue of anything going on....You really think Paterno would let a former assistant into the facility to abuse kids?
When Paterno heard of something the next day after an abuse claim he notified the AD, School President and Head of Security.
Also, the PA Attorney General proceeded to investigate the former coach and couldn’t catch the guy. People were unaware the former coach was even being investigated as a serial predator by various law enforcement.
Joe Pa's reaction at 2:24:01.
He looks like a cross between Joe Pesci and Tom Sizemore😆😆😆😆
Gawd...Penn State dropped so many passes and Collins missed so many open receivers. PSU should’ve been up big at halftime.
It's crazy how Collins sucked as a sophomore and junior but was Heisman material as a senior
2:22:36 RIP to the guy in the orange hat 🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 he got flattened and buried
Jerry Sandusky was the Defensive Coordinator for Penn State.
6400 yards as a career mark? Wow times have changed
My Hometown.....Bettis and Brooks were to tough to stop. I remember getting McDonald's athlete of the week for baseball and because of my name the news uses my name to parallel what Jerome Bettis meant to ND's offense. I was on cloud 10 when i saw that on the news!!!😂
Holtz over platooned his running backs and it ended up killing him later on in recruiting, Watters and Bettis were not utilized as much as they could have been and then when they went and lit up the NFL it allowed opposing coaches to say ND holds back how good you are.
I never understood how ND seemed to tanked so quickly...That program was loaded 1987-1993.
@@LineMountain. The University ended Prop 48 which had a lot of guys graduate but the Administration thought that the Athletes were getting too many breaks that other students didn’t get so they got rid of it and on top of it the University got rid of Randy Moss’s scholarship and Lou finally got tired of all the BS.
2:22:30-2:22:36👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Can we get some feedback from Jerry Sandusky?
STILL SURPRISED MIRER DINT MAKE AS A PRO he was a bit like Montana nothing flashy nothing overall exceptional just a believer & thats usually more than enough to "make" things happen, & what a way 2 go out!
The thing is about Mirer, that dude couldn't ever get a full season of solid or good passing efficiency or consistently throw more TD passes than interceptions. Plus, he got sacked a lot from 1993-1996 (138 times).
Offensive linemen Kevin Mawae, an aging but effective Ray Donaldson, he got Pete Kendall in 1996 but that was Mirer's last year in Seattle, and a few others were on those 1993 to 1996 offensive lines.
Then there's the, it ain't like he didn't have the offensive supporting casts to help him from 1993 to 1996. He had the likes of Joey Galloway, Brian Blades, and an aging but still effective Kelvin Martin at receiver (1993-1994). He had an aging but effective John L. Williams at RB. Thee Chris Warren to hand off to at RB for four years. The underutilized Carlester Crumpler and Christian Fauria at tight end.
Mirer's own offensive struggles, the stuff I just mentioned, and then his OC's and his quarterback coach didn't do a good enough job to help him advance as a consistent passer in Seattle. Boy, Mirer had it hard in Seattle from 1993-1996, just one winning season as a starter, sacked so many times, and etc.
This type of football is better than the 55-42 score type no defense games.
A missed XP cost PSU this game.
Didn't they film some of "Rudy" during this game? At least the snow scene.
There was a scene where Rudy is at this game...but the BC game the week before was when they shot the Rudy game
Yes
What snow? See 1950 Michigan vs Ohio State game, for real snow!
I just looked it up....MY GOSH!!!!!! THAT WAS SERIOUS
No way dubose plays for the Irish today
Although there wasn’t exactly stiff competition, but Kerry Collins has to be the best PSU QB
His 94 year could have easily won the Heisman.
Todd Blackledge.
I thought Joe Pa's reaction to the 2 point conversion was priceless.. 2:24:01
Right? He was probably thinking, "That's just how it goes sometimes."
@@smill1985 Looking like a cross between Al Pacino and Joe Pesci🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Classic
It's hard to watch Paterno knowing now what he knew then.
I'm still absolutely disgusted that the NCAA continues to encourage excessive celebration penalties. Sorry, but scoring a 2 point conversion to get your team the lead with 15 seconds left in the game is well within reason. So long as it doesn't venture into excessive taunting, that shouldn't be even remotely close to a penalty.
I'm still not totally sure why this specific game is held so highly in Notre Dame lore. That 1992 PSU team went 7-5 and frankly wasn't that good.
I'm more surprised you can't see why it is held highly in ND lore; for starters whenever 2 great football programs get together throw out the records, secondly 2 HOF coaches going head to head in a game played mostly in snow that came down to the end and the win for ND tied the series record between ND and PSU. It was also JB's last home game too before he went to the NFL and then onto the pro football HOF. The game also has a cool name too "The Snow Bowl"
You right on that bro!
It was also the last time they were going to play for awhile, because Penn State was going to become a member of the Big 10 the following year. ND and Penn State were scheduled to play the next two years but Penn State had to bow out to accommodate their Big Ten schedule. Notre Dame also had lost to Penn State two years in row prior to this game, so it was great that they beat Penn State in such a dramatic way. Incidentally , Florida State was the replacement on the schedule for Penn State for the next two years which led to the game of the century.
@@robertwilliams5396 Thanks for the explanation, that lends more meaning.
Penn State also beat number 1 Notre Dame in 1990 giving them their second loss and knocking them out of national title contention.
Way to ruin the ending of the game early on
Great years. ND has sucked ever since Holtz left.
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