IRISH NEWSWATCH: “Notre Dame-Michigan State among college football’s most memorable ties” – AP/Augusta Chronicle

Ara Parseghian still bristles 50 years later at the notion No. 1 Notre Dame played for a tie against No. 2 Michigan State …. ‘The only play that we ran that would be suggestive of going for a tie was the last play of the game’ …. * * * That 1966 game has been described as the Game of the Century, as was another Notre Dame tie , a 0-0 game between top-rated Army and the second-ranked Irish at Yankee Stadium in 1946.

The Irish finished No. 1 both times while their undefeated opponent finished No. 2 in the AP poll – the only two times that’s happened. …

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