Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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Sugar Bowl. As an independent, Notre Dame was able to play 11���0, No.�� 1 and Southwest champ Texas in the Cotton Bowl. Alabama won in impressive fashion 35-6 ��� but Notre Dame���s 38���10 victory over the Longhorns produced much better ���style points,��� giving the Irish a twoto-one edge in the voting for No. 1 in both polls. (It also helped that Arkansas head coach Lou Holtz���s 18-point underdogs crushed No. 2 Oklahoma 31-6 later that evening in the Orange Bowl.) Further infuriating Crimson Tide faithful was the two team���s efforts against another common opponent ��� Alabama pounded Mississippi 34���13 in that year ���s opener, while Notre Dame had lost to the Rebels, 20���13, in its second game. Thus, a song entitled ���Little Blue Nun��� became popular in Alabama about how supposedly the voters in the AP and UPI had the deck stacked in favor of Notre Dame. Well, the AP and the UP have announced their final pick Here in Alabama, we���re just all a little sick. ���Cause we thought they���d reward us for the kind of job we���d done When we romped and stomped Ohio State, they���d make us No. 1. Then I seen the vote counters. It was two priests, a bishop, four cardinals, and a little blue nun. With a back whose name is [Jerome] Heavens, and a coach whose named [Dan] Devine, Does it strike you kind of funny that they���ve got us in a bind? Now just ponder this a minute and I���m sure you���ll all suspect Those Irishmen from Notre Dame are just great at stacking decks. (I knowed we was in trouble when I saw them counting the votes on the beads.) To make this story simple We just feel like we���ve been had But you rugged Crimson Tiders really shouldn���t feel too bad. So what if they said Notre Dame was first and we were No. 2. We just had football players. They called in ���you know who.��� (Sounds of lightening and thunder with supposed ���Divine Intervention.���) CHORUS We can beat ���em on the gridiron, We can beat ���em fair and square, We can lick ���em fit and proper, but we haven���t got a prayer. ���Cause you got to know for certain that there isn���t any hope, When you���ve gotta lick Ohio State, and then take on the Pope. For the fourth time in 12 years, the state of Alabama felt it was robbed by Notre Dame. Last Chance In 1976, the two teams met for the first time during the regular season and third time overall. The symmetry remained with Notre Dame this time prevailing by three points (2118) after first winning by one in the 1973 Sugar Bowl (24-23) and two in the 1975 Orange Bowl (13-11). ���It���s getting worse with age,��� the 63-yearold Bryant said after the