Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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Under the Dome 3-0 By The Numbers Notre Dame's all-time football record in August prior to the Aug. 31 opener versus Temple. It defeated Virginia 36‑13 in the Kickoff Classic Aug. 31, 1989; Kansas 48‑13 in the Eddie Robinson Classic Aug. 28, 1999; and No. 21 Maryland 22‑0 in the Kickoff Classic Aug. 31, 2002. 4 8 Brian Kelly's ranking among the nation's top 25 coaches by FOX Sports. Ahead of him were, from one to seven: Alabama's Nick Saban, Ohio State's Urban Meyer, South Carolina's Steve Spurrier, LSU's Les Miles, Stanford's David Shaw, Boise State's Chris Petersen and Oklahoma's Bob Stoops. Among the top 15, Kelly and Arkansas' Bret Bielema are the only two who have not yet won a Bowl Championship Series game, with Bielema 0-3 (at Wisconsin) and Kelly 0‑2 (including Cincinnati). Top administrators among Atlantic Coast Conference schools who have strong Notre Dame backgrounds. This August, 1977-81 Fighting Irish basketball player Stan Wilcox was hired by Florida State as its athletics director. There is This season marks the also Wake Forest president Nathan Hatch Silver Anniversary of the (Notre Dame's provost from 1996-2005), most recent Notre Dame Duke athletics director Kevin White (Notre Dame athletics director from 2000-08) and team to finish No. 1. The longest previous Fighting Irish drought from a consensus national title had been the 16 North Carolina athletics director Lawrence seasons from 1950-65. It remains the foremost standard of "Bubba" Cunningham (a 1984 Notre Dame whether the program is truly all the way back. graduate and former Irish administrator). 1988 photo courtesy Notre Dame Media Relations