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Notre Dame will have a tough time beating SC next time. SC has no drop off in talent.

p>Keep Dreaming. br> -- Michael Kellner br> Chino, California /p>

Speaking of a "hugely depressing defeat for Irish fans from coast to coast," Wlady, I can think of another, that while not involving USC, surely hits a competing if not higher note on the Notre Dame faithful resonance scale than the '64 contest that you've retold.

It was November 20, 1993. A 10-0 Lou Holtz squad, fresh off of an epic "Game of the Century" underdog victory at home the week prior vs. previously undefeated Florida State, had but to traipse across campus in South Bend to take care of business as the heavy favorite against unheralded poor cousin Boston College, the only other remaining Catholic Division IA football program, to virtually assure itself of a national championship. But a funny thing happened on the way to the coronation, courtesy of a 41-yard last-second, knuckleball-trajectory field goal off of the left foot of BC placekicker David Gordon, culminating in an utterly shocking 41-39 toppling of the Irish.

I know of a citizen or two of ND Nation (and there are more) who will bear the trauma of the '93 Championship That Got Away to their grave.

p>Does it show that I enjoy recounting that story? br> -- Francis M. Hannon, Jr. (BC '82) br> Melrose, Massachusetts /p> p>

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