1990 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team

1990 NCAA Division I-A independents football records
	Rankings from AP Poll

Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
1990 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
Orange Bowl, L 9–10 vs. Colorado
Conference	Independent
Ranking
Coaches	No. 6
AP	No. 6
1990 record	9–3
Head coach	Lou Holtz (5th season);
Captains	Mike Heldt; Chris Zorich; Todd Lyght; Ricky Watters;
Home stadium	Notre Dame Stadium (c. 59,075, grass)

The 1990 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season.[1] The team was coached by Lou Holtz and played its home games at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana.

Rivalries

Notre Dame beat Michigan State to claim the Megaphone Trophy.
Notre Dame beat Purdue to claim the Shillelagh Trophy.
In the Michigan – Notre Dame rivalry, Notre Dame beat Michigan.
Notre Dame beat USC to claim the Jeweled Shillelagh.
Notre Dame lost to 1-3 Stanford to lose the Legends Trophy, and costing them a shot at the national championship.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 15	9:00 p.m.	No. 4 Michigan	No. 1	Notre Dame Stadium South Bend, IN (rivalry)	CBS	W 28–24	59,075
September 22	3:30 p.m.	at No. 24 Michigan State	No. 1	Spartan Stadium East Lansing, MI (Megaphone Trophy)	ABC	W 20–19	80,401
September 29	12:00 p.m.	Purdue	No. 1	Notre Dame Stadium South Bend, IN (Shillelagh Trophy)		W 37–11	59,075
October 6	12:00 p.m.	Stanford	No. 1	Notre Dame Stadium South Bend, IN (Legends Trophy)		L 31–36	59,075
October 13	12:00 p.m.	Air Force	No. 8	Notre Dame Stadium South Bend, IN		W 57–27	59,075
October 20	3:30 p.m.	No. 2 Miami (FL)	No. 6	Notre Dame Stadium South Bend, IN (Catholics vs Convicts)	CBS	W 29–20	59,075
October 27	7:45 p.m.	at Pittsburgh	No. 3	Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)	ESPN	W 31–22	56,500
November 3	12:00 p.m.	vs. Navy	No. 2	Giants Stadium East Rutherford, NJ (rivalry)		W 52–31	70,382
November 10	2:30 p.m.	at No. 9 Tennessee	No. 1	Neyland Stadium Knoxville, TN	CBS	W 34–29	97,123
November 17	4:00 p.m.	No. 18 Penn State	No. 1	Notre Dame Stadium South Bend, IN	ESPN	L 21–24	59,075
November 24	8:00 p.m.	at No. 18 USC	No. 7	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA (Jeweled Shillelagh)	ABC	W 10–6	91,639
January 1, 1991	8:00 p.m.	vs. No. 1 Colorado	No. 5	Miami Orange Bowl Miami, FL (Orange Bowl)	NBC	L 9–10	77,062
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

Roster

1990 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
FB	`6`	Jerome Bettis	Fr
RB	`40`	Tony Brooks	Jr
TE	`86`	Derek Brown	Jr
RB	`5`	Rodney Culver	Jr
WR	`87`	Lake Dawson	Fr
WR	`25`	Raghib Ismail	Sr
WR	`10`	Adrian Jarrell	So
T	`65`	Lindsay Knapp	Jr
RB	`4`	Dorsey Levens	So
TE	`80`	Oscar McBride	Fr
T	`76`	Gene McGuire	Jr
QB	`3`	Rick Mirer	So
G	`52`	Tim Ryan	Sr
WR	`12`	Ricky Watters	Sr

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
S	`9`	Jeff Burris	Fr
CB	`32`	Willie Clark	Fr
CB	`29`	John Covington	Fr
DT	`93`	Bob Dahl	Sr
LB	`31`	Demetrius DuBose	So
LB	`42`	Michael Stonebreaker	Jr
CB	`1`	Todd Lyght	Sr
LB	`46`	Brian Ratigan	So
CB	`21`	Rod Smith	Jr
DT	`97`	Bryant Young	Fr
DT	`50`	Chris Zorich	Sr

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class
P	`28`	Craig Hentrich	So
P	`16`	Jim Sexton	Sr

Head coach

Lou Holtz

Coordinators/assistant coaches

Legend

(C) Team captain
(S) Suspended
(I) Ineligible

Injured
Redshirt

Roster

Game summaries

Michigan

Michigan Wolverines (0–0) at Notre Dame Fighting Irish (0–0)

	1	2	3	4	Total
Michigan	3	7	14	0	24
Notre Dame	14	0	0	14	28

at Notre Dame Stadium • South Bend, Indiana

Date: September 15
Game time: night
Game attendance: 59,075
Box Score

Game information

Michigan

Elvis Grbac
17/30, 190 Yds, 2 TD, 2 INT'
Jon Vaughn
22 Rush, 201 Yds
Desmond Howard
6 Rec, 133 Yds, 2 TD

Notre Dame

Rick Mirer
14/23, 165 Yds, TD
Rodney Culver
19 Rush, 95 Yds, TD
Raghib Ismail
4 Rec, 42 Yds

Scoring summary

Quarter	Time	Drive			Team	Scoring information	Score
Quarter	Time	Plays	Yards	TOP	Team	Scoring information	MICH	ND
1	11:28				Notre Dame	Mirer 2-yard touchdown run, Hentrich kick good	0	7
1	7:01				Michigan	38-yard field goal by Carlson	3	7
2	1:59				Notre Dame	Brooks 2-yard touchdown run, Hentrich kick good	3	14
2	3:56				Michigan	Howard 25-yard touchdown reception from Grbac, Carlson kick good	10	14
3	7:49				Michigan	Jefferson 1-yard touchdown run, Carlson kick good	17	14
3	7:33				Michigan	Howard 25-yard touchdown reception from Grbac, Carlson kick good	24	14
4	12:59				Notre Dame	Culver 1-yard touchdown run, Hentrich kick good	24	21
4	1:40				Notre Dame	Jarrell 18-yard touchdown reception from Mirer, Hentrich kick good	24	28
"TOP" = time of possession. For other American football terms, see Glossary of American football.							24	28

Michigan State

The Immaculate Deflection - Rick Mirer's 24-yard completion to Adrian Jarrell, which bounced off hands of MSU LB Todd Murray up and into Jarrell's arms at MSU 2. Three plays later, Culver scored. "There's definitely somebody looking out for us. There's somebody on our side," said Mirer.

Notre Dame's 60th victory as No. 1 ranked team & 5-0-1 vs. MSU when ranked #1

Purdue

Stanford

Stanford at #1 Notre Dame

	1	2	3	4	Total
• Cardinal	7	8	14	7	36
Fighting Irish	7	17	7	0	31

Date: September 22
Location: Notre Dame Stadium, Notre Dame, IN
Game attendance: 59,075

Source:

Air Force

Miami (FL)

#2 Miami (FL) at #6 Notre Dame

	1	2	3	4	Total
Hurricanes	10	7	0	3	20
• Fighting Irish	10	6	6	7	29

Date: October 20
Location: Notre Dame Stadium, South Bend, IN
Game attendance: 59,075
TV announcers (CBS): Jim Nantz and Tim Brant

[2]

Pittsburgh

Navy

#2 Notre Dame vs. Navy

	1	2	3	4	Total
• Fighting Irish	7	3	21	21	52
Midshipmen	0	10	7	14	31

Date: November 3
Location: Giants Stadium
Game attendance: 70,382

[3]

Tennessee

#1 Notre Dame at #9 Tennessee

	1	2	3	4	Total
• Fighting Irish	7	3	7	17	34
Volunteers	6	0	14	9	29

Date: November 10
Location: Neyland Stadium, Knoxville, TN

Source:

Penn State

USC

Colorado (Orange Bowl)

#5 Notre Dame vs. #1 Colorado

	1	2	3	4	Total
Fighting Irish	0	6	3	0	9
• Buffaloes	0	3	7	0	10

Date: January 1
Location: Miami Orange Bowl, Miami, FL
Game attendance: 77,062
TV announcers (NBC): Dick Enberg and Bill Walsh

[4] [5]

Team players drafted into the NFL

Despite being drafted by the Los Angeles Raiders, the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League signed Raghib Ismail to a four-year contract worth 18 million dollars in April 1991.[6] The Ismail signing included four million dollars upfront.[7]

Awards and honors

Raghib Ismail finished second in voting for the Heisman Trophy.[8]
Raghib Ismail, Walter Camp Award[9]
Chris Zorich: Lombardi Award[10]

References

"Notre Dame Yearly Results (1990-1994)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved July 26, 2015.
Gainesville Sun. 1990 Sep 21. Retrieved 2018-Oct-06.
Gainesville Sun. 1990 Nov 4. Retrieved 2018-Dec-15.
"Top-Ranked Colorado Holds Off Notre Dame". The New York Times. January 2, 1991. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
"FLAG WIPED THE EGG OFF MCCARTNEY". The Washington Post. January 3, 1991. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
Drake, Stephen (2009). Weird Facts about Canadian Football: Strange, Wacky and Hilarious Stories. OverTime Books. p. 59. ISBN 978-1-897277-26-3.
Drake, Stephen (2009). Weird Facts about Canadian Football: Strange, Wacky and Hilarious Stories. OverTime Books. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-897277-26-3.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080106231937/http://und.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/nd-m-footbl-archive.html
"Walter Camp Football Foundation Awards (Page 3)". The Walter Camp Foundation. Archived from the original on 2010-02-04. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
"Winners & Finalists". Rotary Club of Houston. Archived from the original on 2009-01-08. Retrieved 2008-01-02.

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[1] "Notre Dame Yearly Results (1990-1994)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved July 26, 2015.

[2] Gainesville Sun. 1990 Sep 21. Retrieved 2018-Oct-06.

[3] Gainesville Sun. 1990 Nov 4. Retrieved 2018-Dec-15.

[4] "Top-Ranked Colorado Holds Off Notre Dame". The New York Times. January 2, 1991. Retrieved December 30, 2018.

[5] "FLAG WIPED THE EGG OFF MCCARTNEY". The Washington Post. January 3, 1991. Retrieved December 30, 2018.

[6] Drake, Stephen (2009). Weird Facts about Canadian Football: Strange, Wacky and Hilarious Stories. OverTime Books. p. 59. ISBN 978-1-897277-26-3.

[7] Drake, Stephen (2009). Weird Facts about Canadian Football: Strange, Wacky and Hilarious Stories. OverTime Books. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-897277-26-3.

[und.cstv.com-8] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080106231937/http://und.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/nd-m-footbl-archive.html

[9] "Walter Camp Football Foundation Awards (Page 3)". The Walter Camp Foundation. Archived from the original on 2010-02-04. Retrieved 2008-01-02.

[LA-10] "Winners & Finalists". Rotary Club of Houston. Archived from the original on 2009-01-08. Retrieved 2008-01-02.

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National championship seasons in bold

1990 NCAA Division I-A independents football records
	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
No. 14 Louisville		–		10	–	1	–	1
No. 3 Miami		–		10	–	2	–	0
No. 4 Florida State		–		10	–	2	–	0
No. 6 Notre Dame		–		9	–	3	–	0
No. 11 Penn State		–		9	–	3	–	0
Louisiana Tech		–		8	–	3	–	1
Southern Miss		–		8	–	4	–	0
Temple		–		7	–	4	–	0
Syracuse		–		7	–	4	–	2
Army		–		6	–	5	–	0
Northern Illinois		–		6	–	5	–	0
South Carolina		–		6	–	5	–	0
Virginia Tech		–		6	–	5	–	0
East Carolina		–		5	–	6	–	0
Southwestern Louisiana		–		5	–	6	–	0
Navy		–		5	–	6	–	0
Memphis State		–		4	–	6	–	1
Boston College		–		4	–	7	–	0
Tulane		–		4	–	7	–	0
West Virginia		–		4	–	7	–	0
Akron		–		3	–	7	–	1
Pittsburgh		–		3	–	7	–	1
Rutgers		–		3	–	8	–	0
Tulsa		–		3	–	8	–	0
Cincinnati		–		1	–	10	–	0

Rankings from AP Poll