Who one the football game between Notre Dame and UConn?
By CHIP MALAFRONTE Journal Register News Service STORRS — The Golden Dome. Touchdown Jesus. “Win one for the Gipper”. The University of Notre Dame is synonymous with college football. And the UConn football team isn’t the least bit interested. “We’re not going for a tour of the campus or a history lesson,” UConn linebacker Scott Lutrus said. “We’re going out there to win a football game.” The Huskies will let school administrators and fans bask in the lore of playing in Notre Dame Stadium — also known as college football’s biggest stage — Saturday at 2:30 p.m. (NBC). They want no part of the hype. Prior to a practice earlier in the week, a reporter went from player to player asking Notre Dame-related trivia questions. Questions like ‘Name one of The Four Horsemen’ or ‘When did Notre Dame last win a national championship?’ He received mostly blank stares. That’s partly because a good portion of the Huskies (4-5) haven’t been alive long enough to see an elite Notre Dame team — its last n
Would love to hear your thoughts on this game and what it means to you to see UConn playing arguably the most storied program in college football – Notre Dame – this coming Saturday. Do you like it? Love it? Hate it? Don’t care? Going to the game? Not watching? Has some shine worn off the game because of the way the teams are playing? Send your thoughts in all week. I’m sure others want to hear them too.Love it- I’ll love it even more when we win Saturday (and hopefully end their sold out streak). I was happy at first when I heard we were scheduling a long-term agreement with ND- to me it signaled acceptance into “big time” college football, but when they insisted on ZERO games at the Rent, I know we did the right thing when we walked away from negotiations. When Michigan and Tennessee schedule a home-and-home series with us and Notre Dame can’t get its head out of its own you know what, they deserve to have to pay lower-tier teams to go to South Bend for a one-time deal or schedule a
The University of Connecticut upset the University of Notre Dame in football on November 21, 2009. The game went into double overtime. Sources: espn.
