Dad, ND alum, was stationed at the Defense Depot in Memphis. We visited Eureka Springs, a small town in the Northwest of Arkansas, and watched this game in the hotel room. I was only 6 and watched this whole season with Dad. He invited me to watch the Michigan game and after that, I was hooked. We were yelling and screaming with the window to our hotel room open and people were laughing while passing by on the street at how much fun we had. Great memories.
I loved the Lou Holtz era at ND. What a play call on the third down screen pass early in the fourth quarter. Hard to believe this was the last Irish championship team.
89 team was better, but had a bad half & turnovers ruin their season. 93 was also just as good as 88. 90 was a powerhouse as well. ND was elite in late 80s/early 90s.
i was only in the 8th grade back then watching this on Sat at 330 pm kickoff seem like the game meant something ..and Keith jackson , the Bands atmosphere man is was great tv
I traveled from StL to this game at SC. 1st time ever that these great rivals played w both teams unbeaten and untied.. 1 v 2 tremendous pregame build up and even better once ball was snapped.. Tony Rice and the offense ran the wishbone option to perfection and mixed in clutch throws all game. ND's defense was outstanding, causing turnovers and relentlessly punishing SC's skill players.
They (ND Defense) were definitely punishing people. Chris Zorich has a podcast on YT and you should hear his discussion with Linebacker and teammate 'Wes Pritchett' about this game. Very funny and enlightening.
I watched it, too - 22 years to the day ND put a 51-0 shellacking on the Trojans en route to a national title under Ara. That still stands as the worst defeat in Trojan history.
Rice was so underrated and so damn good. Deadly with the play action pass and dangerous either with the quarterback draw or keeping it on the triple option.
Strong arm? Yes. Accurate passer? No. It's something he had to work on. Holtz had him throwing darts in the offseason to improve his accuracy. And I mean that literally- actual darts at a dartboard. And Rice did, in fact, improve his accuracy. But nowhere close to NFL level. Great college QB, though. If ND had some type of HOF, Rice would be slam dunk.
The seniors on this usc team never beat Notre Dame, the next seven classes at usc never beat Notre dame, almost 200 graduates in a row never beat Notre dame! Total beat down ! Lou 13 -0-1, owned usc
Listen to Keith Jackson on Tony rice's 65 yd td.NO emotion, it tells what he feels about ND.I was at he game on rice's run the ND fans ALOT of them ,the noise was electric !!!
@@tro71357 I KNOW for a fact Jackson was anti ND ! I overheard him at a small gathering ,saying unflattering things about ND.Tom Kelly had a REVERENCE for ND ,You could hear it in his voice.
Jim Dougherty Michigan could have made the Catholics vs Convicts meaningless. if and only if Michigan PK made the field goal back in September, and kept the lead against Miami of that year. Miami was robbed vs ND that day by ref.
@@thedivomeister6308 robbed. Yeah by Notre Dame's defense and all of their turnovers. That was the only robbing going on. Miami could never play smashmouth football. They were more a pansy speed school.
Man I hated the "Wishbone",in my early teens EVERYONE ran it Oklahoma was a powerhouse, loved when Pat Sullivan & Auburn got hot,just couldn't defend against it, always wanted to see Somebody,Anybody stop it. was there a particular game this happened?
To add to Michael Kraus' point below....how about Keith Jackson at 3:10, DURING THE PLAY (a huge one at that), urging that Rice stepped on the back line but the refs "didn't see it", when his foot wasn't within five feet of the back line. Wishful thinking by Jackson, really wanted those two points for USC I guess. Broadcasting is just like written journalism....you make mistakes when you WANT something to be true. Jackson wanted that to be true, and was badly mistaken.
Jackson was obviously confused. Rice's foot hits the back of the painted USC logo, which as you said, is about 5 feet from the actual back line. I liked Keith Jackson, but it was obvious he had a dislike for Notre Dame.
@@blacksabfan Here's another example of an odd call by Jackson during a Notre Dame play. he corrected himself fairly quickly, but he disturbed his own call of a game winning field goal by prematurely pointing out a penalty that wasn't occuring.....th-cam.com/video/v5w5v8RUWz4/w-d-xo.html
They were also making some academic concessions at that time in regards to recruiting and those players, like Tony Rice, that they allowed in were having success in the classroom as well as on the field. After a few years the university, despite evidence showing these students were doing incredibly well, all but stopped those exceptions and after that it became more difficult to recruit.
@@jamesmarhen i am old nd nut...54.....love forever--just wish they could get top 50 guys....o line and d line dominant this yr...if their is a year..doubtful...
I remember 2 things about Jeff Alm from that year - His ability to knock down passes and a Sports Illustrated writer's comment on his talent in the Miami game. "Jeff Alm and those damn long arms..." (paraphrase since I don't recall the next part definitively) "knocked down another pass." To that point I had saved every Sports Illustrated since ~ 1975, but I was getting tired of a growing anti ND sentiment. If you don't believe it, delete any reference to who actually won the game and read that article - you would be convinced ND, who led the whole way and by 2 TD in the 1st half, had gotten whupped....I cancelled my subscription.
Keith literally just hated ND so much he never even tried to pronounce players’ names. I hated listening to his voice. Not only that he literally can see that Rice was 5-6 in front of the end line and STILL said, “he stepped on the back of the end zone.” Such a horribly biased commentator.
Why don’t you change channels you coward? We destroyed you last year , wasn’t even a game ca LOB tossed 3 picks before half , Notre dame drew up the blueprint to stop cryleb, he lost 6 of last 7, never won a bowl game, cried like a baby to mommy after losing to Washington, sat on the bench drinking water as Utah walked down the field for game wining field goal, go watch the lack 12 network, oh that’s right that lame conference went out of business lmao
J a kson was a west coast guy. So he made a couple of bad calls. They guy did NBA,NCAA MLB, championship games. Always loved him doing sec and old swc games. That would be Southwest conference . Tex,Tex tech,Tex am, Houston,rice, Baylor,smu,TCU, always forget last Tex team. And Arkansas. Anyway. Loved him calling Texas a&m . They had a back Bubba Bean. Lester Hayes played on that team 75 76. Hayes was a 200lb inside lb.
He didn’t make a good call the entire game. He was biased and it was obvious he hated ND. He INTENTIONALLY mispronounced the ND QB name every year. Or just made up a story that didn’t relate to the reality. Listen to him say “MY-ruh all you want. He wasn’t “making a few bad calls,” he was intentionally making bad calls bc of his bias.
Man I remember watching this game as a kid. This was better than watching the NFL
Always
Dad, ND alum, was stationed at the Defense Depot in Memphis. We visited Eureka Springs, a small town in the Northwest of Arkansas, and watched this game in the hotel room. I was only 6 and watched this whole season with Dad. He invited me to watch the Michigan game and after that, I was hooked. We were yelling and screaming with the window to our hotel room open and people were laughing while passing by on the street at how much fun we had. Great memories.
Golden Era for the Irish
3:10. He DIDN'T step on the back of the end zone.
1980s College Football was a blast!🏈
Damn NDs run defense and that pass rush.... oh my goodness 😊😊
3:10 No Keith, Tony Rice didn't step on the back of the end zone!
I was just about to comment on that lol
He DID step on the back of the end zone after his 65 yrd TD run!
Yeah I noticed that too. Jackson made a lot of bad observations 🤣
I hated Notre Dame but I was fascinated by them at the same time. They were damn good!!!
Yea sir! That’s how I felt about the U but certain teams demand respect!
This was the first ND game my dad took me to. It was awesome! Go Irish!
Two great qb's, two great teams. Go Irish !
Here in 2024, the last time this game featured #1 vs #2. What a game this was. It was a defacto National Semifinal.
I loved the Lou Holtz era at ND. What a play call on the third down screen pass early in the fourth quarter. Hard to believe this was the last Irish championship team.
yes was a great era! Im proud to have a Lou Holtz ball and a Tony Rice cap from that era. Also happy to have seen that season live! GO IRISH!
89 team was better, but had a bad half & turnovers ruin their season. 93 was also just as good as 88. 90 was a powerhouse as well.
ND was elite in late 80s/early 90s.
i was only in the 8th grade back then watching this on Sat at 330 pm kickoff seem like the game meant something ..and Keith jackson , the Bands atmosphere man is was great tv
I was in 8th grade to Florida what State was you in ?
This is the NOTRE DAME/USC game that sticks out the most in my mind……..Was looking at your tomorrow’s schedule.
I traveled from StL to this game at SC. 1st time ever that these great rivals played w both teams unbeaten and untied.. 1 v 2 tremendous pregame build up and even better once ball was snapped.. Tony Rice and the offense ran the wishbone option to perfection and mixed in clutch throws all game. ND's defense was outstanding, causing turnovers and relentlessly punishing SC's skill players.
They (ND Defense) were definitely punishing people. Chris Zorich has a podcast on YT and you should hear his discussion with Linebacker and teammate 'Wes Pritchett' about this game. Very funny and enlightening.
I’m sure they found SC was physical too . 😉
1983-1995 the decade of dominance
You really trying to include 1984, 85', and 86' in your "decade of dominance ?? 84 and 85 were Jerry Faust years. 🤣🤣
@@brucemolett9843
GERRY
AND YES THAT IS THE POINT.
Even with Gerry Faust they were beating USC. 🎉
I watched this game back in 1988 I was 14yrs old, they won the National championship that year
Lol same here, i was in the 8th grade and i remembering watching it at 330 kickoff on Abc..man good time back then
I watched it, too - 22 years to the day ND put a 51-0 shellacking on the Trojans en route to a national title under Ara. That still stands as the worst defeat in Trojan history.
@@mlang28 I was in the eighth grade as well I watch this game curious what state you live in ?
I was in ninth. Great time to be an Irish fan
Stan Smagala had world class speed.
Great fricken day.. great fricken day...I was there...watched the irish take care of business..
Last time USC was nationally relevant for about 15 years.
Didn't they have a high preseason ranking going into the 1995 season? But yeah they weren't jack sh*t for a minute.
Tony Rice would have excelled in today’s NFL. They said he was too small. He was 6’1 strong arm and body and had 4.48 speed. How times have changed
Rice was so underrated and so damn good. Deadly with the play action pass and dangerous either with the quarterback draw or keeping it on the triple option.
True.
Strong arm? Yes. Accurate passer? No. It's something he had to work on. Holtz had him throwing darts in the offseason to improve his accuracy. And I mean that literally- actual darts at a dartboard. And Rice did, in fact, improve his accuracy. But nowhere close to NFL level. Great college QB, though. If ND had some type of HOF, Rice would be slam dunk.
He was a fantastic player!
Not an NFL quarterback. Great player though.
Great upload! A shame Rodney Peete had a large piece of swiss cheese protecting him that day back in 88'.
Rodney Peete...that is a name I have not heard in a long, long time...
Hard-hitting era!! Today, many of the hits would be "late hits" or targeting.
#1 vs #2 .... and it was not even close, it was a beat down
They wipped our ass!!!
3:09 Steps on the back of the endzone????? I can see how he made that mistake, but he was 2 yards away
That was a great ND team. Knew how to play defense
"On the count of 3 say Defense!"
I remember watching this game lol I played pop Warner football QB and really thought I was Tony rice lmao!!!!
2 of my favorite Irish QB's are Tony Rice & Tom Clements. Why?? Because they made very few mistakes & executed in the clutch.
What about Ron Paulis?
This is when football was FOOTBALL! GO IRISH!
❤the 🚀rocket & notre dame football coach Lou holke;; r ❤ 1970s/ 1980s college football
The seniors on this usc team never beat Notre Dame, the next seven classes at usc never beat Notre dame, almost 200 graduates in a row never beat Notre dame! Total beat down ! Lou 13 -0-1, owned usc
Thanks
Listen to Keith Jackson on Tony rice's 65 yd td.NO emotion, it tells what he feels about ND.I was at he game on rice's run the ND fans ALOT of them ,the noise was electric !!!
He had mike Adele’s covering the beginning of the play. Jackson did fine. What a great play for the irish
@@tro71357 I KNOW for a fact Jackson was anti ND ! I overheard him at a small gathering ,saying unflattering things about ND.Tom Kelly had a REVERENCE for ND ,You could hear it in his voice.
@@michaelkraus4135 that's right,jackson was without a doubt the BIGGEST notre dame hater of THEM ALL!!!
@@casedismissed8581 Thanks Bob. This is a shot in the dark,Bob are you from LA CANADA Flintridge ?
On NDs first play, he said Rice Stepped out the back of the Endzone, yeah, if he were 2 more yards deep maybe.
Larry Smith didn't get job done at USC
How many of these guys made it to the NFL?
Can you upload all the games from NDs 1988 season? Aka, the best season in College Football history.
I don't have any of their other games other than the ones i've put up, unless someone uploads them.
Jim Dougherty Michigan could have made the Catholics vs Convicts meaningless. if and only if Michigan PK made the field goal back in September, and kept the lead against Miami of that year. Miami was robbed vs ND that day by ref.
Does the USC cheerleaders have a PA system like they used to 3:43
GO IRISH !
@@thedivomeister6308 robbed. Yeah by Notre Dame's defense and all of their turnovers. That was the only robbing going on. Miami could never play smashmouth football. They were more a pansy speed school.
I respect Rodney Peete n Holly Robinson more for being great people than great entertainers.
Back to when Notre dame actaully won the big games
Oh dont worry we back
@@kellancarney810hopefully
Can anyone explain what happened at the postgame handshake when there appeared to be pushing and shoving of the ND staff?
Man I hated the "Wishbone",in my early teens EVERYONE ran it Oklahoma was a powerhouse, loved when Pat Sullivan & Auburn got hot,just couldn't defend against it, always wanted to see Somebody,Anybody stop it. was there a particular game this happened?
Notre dame fighting Irish vs usc Trojans 1988 Keith Jackson bob griese mike adamle
It’s funny how wideouts got into a 3 point stance I wonder why?
So they don't get jam
12:13 “shit!” 😂
To add to Michael Kraus' point below....how about Keith Jackson at 3:10, DURING THE PLAY (a huge one at that), urging that Rice stepped on the back line but the refs "didn't see it", when his foot wasn't within five feet of the back line. Wishful thinking by Jackson, really wanted those two points for USC I guess.
Broadcasting is just like written journalism....you make mistakes when you WANT something to be true. Jackson wanted that to be true, and was badly mistaken.
Jackson was obviously confused. Rice's foot hits the back of the painted USC logo, which as you said, is about 5 feet from the actual back line.
I liked Keith Jackson, but it was obvious he had a dislike for Notre Dame.
@@blacksabfan Here's another example of an odd call by Jackson during a Notre Dame play. he corrected himself fairly quickly, but he disturbed his own call of a game winning field goal by prematurely pointing out a penalty that wasn't occuring.....th-cam.com/video/v5w5v8RUWz4/w-d-xo.html
I know I rewatched that part he was not even close to back of end zone lol
And om Smagala's interception, he called it incomplete. Jackson disliked ND.
back then they could recruit 12 top 100 players,now maybe 2...
Right
They were also making some academic concessions at that time in regards to recruiting and those players, like Tony Rice, that they allowed in were having success in the classroom as well as on the field. After a few years the university, despite evidence showing these students were doing incredibly well, all but stopped those exceptions and after that it became more difficult to recruit.
@@jamesmarhen i am old nd nut...54.....love forever--just wish they could get top 50 guys....o line and d line dominant this yr...if their is a year..doubtful...
@@jamesmarhen And that’s why Notre Dame keeps struggling in big games.
Lou went easy on USC. They should have won this by 4 touchdowns.
ND beat a lot of gr8 teams in 88, Miami, USC, Michigan. But West Virginia was NOT one of them.
ND rolled on everyone's A$$es!
alm and dean brown have passed--rip
I remember 2 things about Jeff Alm from that year - His ability to knock down passes and a Sports Illustrated writer's comment on his talent in the Miami game. "Jeff Alm and those damn long arms..." (paraphrase since I don't recall the next part definitively) "knocked down another pass." To that point I had saved every Sports Illustrated since ~ 1975, but I was getting tired of a growing anti ND sentiment. If you don't believe it, delete any reference to who actually won the game and read that article - you would be convinced ND, who led the whole way and by 2 TD in the 1st half, had gotten whupped....I cancelled my subscription.
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Can we get a date? a week? any kind of info?
notre dame vs usc 1988
Pretty much how Rodney Peete career went
Why can't your kind speak English correctly?
@@bennyrobinson1935 your kind? Excuse me?
Keith literally just hated ND so much he never even tried to pronounce players’ names. I hated listening to his voice.
Not only that he literally can see that Rice was 5-6 in front of the end line and STILL said, “he stepped on the back of the end zone.” Such a horribly biased commentator.
love ND and kieth!!
☘️☘️☘️
The Die Hard Game
GO IRISH
Why not show the second half of the SC ND 1974 game?? Much better
The first half of 74 was really good but then the 3rd qtr started
Why don’t you change channels you coward? We destroyed you last year , wasn’t even a game ca LOB tossed 3 picks before half , Notre dame drew up the blueprint to stop cryleb, he lost 6 of last 7, never won a bowl game, cried like a baby to mommy after losing to Washington, sat on the bench drinking water as Utah walked down the field for game wining field goal, go watch the lack 12 network, oh that’s right that lame conference went out of business lmao
1974 USC V ND IS THE BEST GAME OF THE SERIES!!!!!
My faves were 66 and 77! Awesome rivalry
There’s a conspiracy that the players wanted ara out so they said they show there best then they’ll show there worst
go irish
As a lifelong Trojan hater. I feel bad for their fans. The least talented squad I have seen from a great progam. Like Gerry Faust .
J a kson was a west coast guy. So he made a couple of bad calls. They guy did NBA,NCAA MLB, championship games. Always loved him doing sec and old swc games. That would be Southwest conference . Tex,Tex tech,Tex am, Houston,rice, Baylor,smu,TCU, always forget last Tex team. And Arkansas. Anyway. Loved him calling Texas a&m . They had a back Bubba Bean. Lester Hayes played on that team 75 76. Hayes was a 200lb inside lb.
He didn’t make a good call the entire game. He was biased and it was obvious he hated ND.
He INTENTIONALLY mispronounced the ND QB name every year. Or just made up a story that didn’t relate to the reality.
Listen to him say “MY-ruh all you want. He wasn’t “making a few bad calls,” he was intentionally making bad calls bc of his bias.
USC played like crap. Didn't even show up. Such a disappointing game if the century.
Peete is WAY overrated. He always loses in the big game. He's incompetent, weak, and stupid.
Geez it’s been over 30 years,
The team loses, not one player.