What was the atmosphere like at the Notre Dame and national championship games?
The atmosphere before the games were pretty similar. Anytime you go into South Bend, there is just so much history in the place it’s just fantastic. It was a great atmosphere and the same as going into the Orange Bowl. To play for the national championship you don’t have to say too much about that – you’re going to have butterflies in your stomach and there is a lot of excitement in the air. They were real similar. I think that the biggest thing is that we were undefeated going into Notre Dame and we felt like we probably couldn’t be beat and we learned a lesson from that. Going into the national championship game, we felt like we could be beat if we didn’t have our heads in the game. What made your 1993 team so special? Probably just the camaraderie among the teammates. You didn’t have anybody going around talking about going to the pros or talking about what they were going to do after college. We had people talking about winning a national championship period. We had a lot of guys f
