The fact that this game was played in the afternoon sunshine and on real grass gives it a classic feel. I wish more college football was still like this.
@@jamedlock83artificial turf causes more injuries then well kept grass. Almost all NFL stadiums use grass. Most colleges use turf since it is cheaper to maintain.
There's a lot of schools who didn't take care of their grass. That's why ND went to Field Turf. They didn't maintain their grass enough to justify keeping it.
Ah 2005. A much simpler time. USC was on top. MySpace was at its peak. You were on limewire looking for your favorite song. You made calls on a landline. People wore Livestrong bands. And when everyone had higlights in their hair. No worries about a virus. A conspiracy theory didn't flood the net. No stupid Instagram or Tiktok.
People were not making that many calls on landlines in 2005. Everyone had a cell phone by then, and making calls on cell phones was actually cheaper than making calls on landlines.
It's 2005. My team (UGA) is a winning team during the height of Mark Richt's coaching era. Mom has some Dominoes on the way and she is making some spaghetti and garlic bread downstairs. My brother is playing Madden in our room and my dad is walking up the stairs with some cold Big Red sodas while I switch on to this game in my parents room on their big T.V. Good times. Good times.
Best game I ever saw college or pro and the Rose Bowl of that year as well was the best as well. USC had a team full of NFL caliber athletes and Notre Dame had a collection of guys that made them earn everything, it was a thrill to watch this one.
@dark8prince201 *"Matt Leinart vs. Vince Young Rose Bowl'* Why Carroll can never be considered a great coach. Everybody knew Vince was running right, play after play, and Carroll could do nothing.
Wow I can't believe this was only recently. And College Football and sports was so much different then. No politics what so ever just playing sports. Miss that time. I remember watching this game and the ending as a Irish fan killed me. It's still an epic game and one of the best ever played. This is why I love and still love College Football.
@@Xzrohrh Politics doesn't belong in sports, if I want that I'll watch CNN or MSNBC or any those other crap stations. That's why ESPN is nothing but drama king trash now.
You'll Never see nick saban take his alabama teams on the road out of conference, into a Hostile environment, and play a #9, a #8 or a #6 team like Pete carroll use to do with USC.
Well, when the SEC annually puts 5,6 sometimes 7 of its teams in the top 20 it doesn't really matter, he's playing against the toughest competition in the country twice a month
@@cityofchamps66 LMAO! Ok..... hide behind your patty cake, bullshit schedule. I give your conference president credit for scheduling your conference favorably to make it to the big game. But let's not pretend you SEC folkd play a tough OOC schedule. Citadel, Lousiana-Monroe, Tennessee Chat and all those other pussy schools are NOT worthy opponents. GTFOH!
@@moet1823 I'm a college football fan? The SEC has produced 9 of the last 12 National Champions, it's not even open for debate which is the toughest and best football conference in the country GTFOH and STFU
I remember watching this as I kid and thinking even though they lost Charlie Weis is no doubt going to take Notre Dame back to the promised land. Never would have thought he eventually would become one of the biggest busts ever.
@@jamesconnor2278 wasn’t a prick. Weis was a good dude and loved Notre Dame. Never would have left them the way BK just did. He never could get the coaching part down though. Hell of a recruiter and that’s it.
This USC team was an absolutely insane team. Pretty sure everyone starting for them was drafted or played in the NFL. But remember watching this game thinking Notre Dame didn't have a chance since USC were the champs and basically the same team as last year, so ND staying in this game was pretty big, Quinn looked like a NFLer in this game
No, the usc defense was terrible compared to the previous year. Especially the secondary, this is why they got exposed in the rose bowl by Vince Young.
This season was just a great season all around! USC and Texas both go to wire-to-wire #1 and #2 the whole season, couldn't set up a better championship game
USC in the 2000s - collected all the best talent from the state of CA (all you need) + surrounding states. Fast forward to 2019 - the best are all leaving PAC-12 territory because of the relative obscurity of west coast college football. Teams like Clemson and the SEC are grabbing the elite guys. What a difference 15 years makes.
I absolutely enjoyed the USC Notre Dame football game in 2005! What a heck of a game this was! Also, the green jerseys from Notre Dame was a neat throwback!
It's NOT historical at all. ND went 6-6 with Tyyyrrooonneee Willingham the year before. Carroll beat a 1st coach by 3 pts. So did unranked MSU. ND beat 3 ranked teams that ALL finished UNRANKED. So ND beat no final ranked teams and lost to the 2 ranked teams they played. What a FING joke of game in retrospect. ND is a farce. Never a conf championship, EVER, and is 0-1 in championship games. It gets better, 0-14 in bowls against top 15 teams since 95.
This came up on my feed and you can still feel the electricity emanating from a game long ago. A all-time classic waking up the echos of greatness! Fight On! Troy.
3:09:16 has to be one of the greatest passes and receptions in football history! A 4th down do or die situation, just incredible!! For Leinart to put that ball exactly where it needed to be, Jarrett making the catch in stride with the DB right on his back who could’ve easily batted it down, absolutely amazing!!
Yes, and what is amazing as well is that on that 4th down, Leinart called an audible in that roaring stadium to set up that play to Jarrett when he noticed the one-on-one coverage on Jarrett who stood about one foot taller than the DB that was covering him. Leinart's pass landed right on the numbers...amazing.
USC was loaded with talent then but I really enjoyed watching this Fighting Irish team. Quinn was a solid college quarterback and Darius Walker was smooth. Notre Dame's defense was damn good, too.
These days feel like a century ago. The SEC has been dominant for so long that I can't even remember what it was like before when other conferences actually could compete.
Thank goodness for Elite Mighty Bama that just had the most dominant dynasty in the entire history of college football. The SEC has five different programs that have won the national title in the past twenty years.
I was a huge USC Trojan fan having grown up in that neighborhood where USC is at. This game brings me back to those memories man, I was a senior in HS and I had been following the trojans since Troy Polumalu and Carson Palmer were on the team. What a game this was, watching it I am realizing I remember so many plays and moments. Even though I went on to attend Cal I always root for the Trojans and I hope they make a comeback and beat up on everyone (except Cal) like they used to lol
The craziest game I have ever watched in my life up to date. Matt Leinart will always be a God in the eyes of 'SC fans and is in college football immortality because of this.
@@bretcobearo373 I was being sarcastic in response to Ted, seems odd to pinpoint a singular class a guy took when he already completed the academic requirements to graduate and figured to take a class on dancing.
I paid $400 to watch this game on the 30 yard line! The evening before there were 45000 fans in the stands for the pep rally! I remember watching Lear jet after Lear jet flying into South Bend that night as the high rollers came out of the woodwork. Great memories!
I've been on the internet too much. 40 seconds in and the music playing in the background is giving me flashbacks of that naked russian dude dancing to Pirates of the Caribbean.
I have been watching and attending USC football for over 50 years and I am a proud USC alumni. I was at this game. The 1st and only time I’ve been to Notre Dame. It was the most epic football game I’ve ever seen. Fight On! ✌🏼🤨
Only flaw this USC team had was defensive back play....other than that they were unbeatable for the most part. Any of these recent alabama teams wouldnt stand a chance against this USC team Reggie Bush was a man amongst boys.
USC lost 2 1st Team All Americans and 2 3rd Team All Americans in DTs Patterson and Cody, and LBs Tatupu and Grootegoed in 2004. No Team can Lose 2 All American DTs, and an All American MLB and OLB and get better. To say the secondary play (which did suck compared to 03 and 04 USC) was the only reason is wrong.
H Smells I don’t know about the 2017 Alabama squad, but the 2018 Clemson and 2019 LSU teams, yes. Those two were easily the two best college football teams that we’ve seen since the 2001 Miami Hurricanes.
@@northwestprof60 There are all kinds of northern teams that still have natural turf and it’s fine. Take Lambeau Field, for example. They play more games on their field and their season goes longer. Yes, they have the water heating system or water it is, but Notre Dame easily could have done that as well. Purdue has natural turf and it’s only about 100 miles South of Notre Dame. Michigan State went back to natural grass for this season and East Lansing is actually North of South Bend. Notre Dame has more money than God. They should be able to figure out how to make their field look nice for 6-7 games per year.
@@Whoopdido777 Matt, that field is HEATED with underground coils. The cost of that would be astronomical. It's the climate that does this: that's why virtually ALL schools at this latitude have gone to field turf. If a handful have gone back, they are about 1-2% of the schools who have done so!! When you figure in the cost of maintaining grass into November and even early December it is prohibitive. Notre Dame has a lot of money but it is largely spoken for and this project is not high on the list
@@northwestprof60 Yet they spent $400 million on their God awful looking Crossroads project which ruined the look of their stadium and, of course, added some luxury suites to boot. But even taking the coils out of the equation, if Purdue and Michigan State can maintain their fields into November, why wouldn’t Notre Dame be able to? Penn State has grass. Pittsburgh has grass. UConn has grass. All of those schools have very similar climates to Notre Dame In November.
I remember watching this game. Was dating a girl who had to work and I was bored as hell stuck at her house all day. Best college game I've ever watched. Reggie was amazing at USC.
One of the main reasons why this game was so great to watch was because of NBC. If this were on ESPN/ABC their annoying Commentators would be bugging us all game long!
Well if it was on ABC back then it would have still been great because ABC Sports was still around. Even ESPN was good back then. Only in the late 2000s when ESPN became about themselves rather than sports did it start to go off the rails. Getting rid of ABC Sports, an extremely valuable brand with 50 years of built up equity, was also a monumental mistake.
The amount of adrenalin he must have felt at 3:09:10. When he sees the corner shade zone, then fake audibles to see if the corner stays set. Oooof...... chills.
This game and how it ended to me shows NO DOUBT about WHO started the Reggie Bush investigation. Was Reggie guilty? Yes. However, that didn't.change the outcome of this game as it wasn't performance-related. Reggie broke the (now archaic) rule of taking money TO HELP OUT HIS FAMILY. Sure, that WAS a violation of the collegiate athlete rules. But Notre Dame lost this game, or, better yet, depending on perspective, USC WON this game because they were better talented than was ND. SO THAT SHIT is just SHIT. Did Reggie push? Yeah, he DID. Again, SO? Are you SERIOUSLY TELLING ME THAT IF ND DID THE SAME THING, THEY TOO WOULDN'T BE WRITING HERE WHAT I'M WRITING HERE? Those were two great teams, but one was WAY OVERRATED and were lucky to be IN that game on that day. I'm thinking of the 2004 National Championship game here... ND would have suffered the SAME FATE that OU suffered that New Year's day. Fuck the "Bush Push".... AS ND fans would have ALSO ignored it if it helped THEM to victory. Great game and finale, though. 🤣🤣🤣
Nick Saban would've taķen Alabama to any place knuckleheads!!!! He is the greatest college football coach ever. Know your sports irish fans. Put them in the sec ok it wouldn't be pretty lmfao 😅😅😅😂
What! Knowing the following, you cannot feel the same way. ND went 6-6 with Tyyyrrooonneee Willingham the year before. Carroll beat a 1st coach by 3 pts. So did unranked MSU. ND beat 3 ranked teams that ALL finished UNRANKED. So ND beat no final ranked teams and lost to the 2 ranked teams they played. What a FING joke of game in retrospect. ND is a farce. Never a conf championship, EVER, and is 0-1 in championship games. It gets better, 0-14 in bowls against top 15 teams since 95.
I remember like it was yesterday watching this game and losing my mind when the game ended only to be out done later that year when USC played Texas for the national championship
I remember this GAME very well.....THE MEDIA WANTED THE IRISH LED BY A BELICHECK DISCIPLE WEISS to WIN sooooooo BAD it was PATHETIC. I also remember SKIP BAYLESS whining about THE BUSH PUSH.
Well to be fair. It would have been a great story. That's why they wanted them to win. The media loves great stories. The stadium. The history behind Notre Dame. The new savior coming in to resurrect the program. It would have been perfect.
Hey HEAT1996, you are uniformed. No one affiliated with USC paid Reggie Bush. Reggie was with USC already into his 3rd season when an outsider approached his dad. They collaborated to attempt to get reggie to sign with new area sports managment when reggie turned pro. This guy could care less about reggie playing for usc or not. There is alot more to the story which i not bother explaining to you. You just sound so ignorant throwing out stupid comments like that. Most of SC's roster were from SoCal and have always had USC on their radars. Fight on!
Right at the end, NBC Sports threw it over to NASCAR's 2005 UAW GM Quality 500. This is an infamous race among NASCAR fans because of Goodyear tire failures that night, rivaling the 2008 Brickyard 400. Crazy that NBC broadcasted two famous sporting events back to back.
It changed nothing. Weis didn’t know how to build a coaching staff, his strength and conditioning program was piss poor and his defenses were always bad. The only thing he did well was recruit, specifically in the offensive side of the ball.
I was not able to watch this game live because I could not get NBC's signal in the holler of southwest Missouri I was living in at the time. Thank you for uploading this video.
This game was instant classic 10yrs ago well known as The Bush Push for Reggie Bush pushing Matt Leinart into the endzone for the game winning touchdown
I know this is an old comment, but I just had to respond to you. The fact that you're a Noter Dame fan, I had a hard time not calling them what us SC fans call them but I have respect for you so I decided to say it right. But anyways, the fact that you're their fan yet you still made a positive comment and not one crying about how SC rightfully got a 2nd chance, proves to me that you're a true fan of the game and I have nothing but respect for you!!! I remember watching this game and listening to their fans screaming "bullshit" because they were given 7 seconds back to run another play. It was totally obvious that the ball went flying out of bounds with what I saw 8 seconds on the clock!! Really doesn't matter how many seconds we're on the clock, there was time left and the refs made the right call. But it was and probably still is one of the most exciting and fun games I've ever watched!!!
@@Westsideauditor1469 It was the right call no doubt. And if they had instant reply in this game it would have shown. Charlie should have put more men on the line during that last play. Everyone knew they were going to run it. I am sure that people were exhausted there after this game. I still like watching this game every now and then. I was at the Bama and Texas a&M game in 2012 and even though we lost in a good game it was a honor to see Manzel play in his prime.
Still can’t believe they didn’t stop the clock when Leinart was tackled and the ball was very obviously knocked out of bounds. Smh that guy (the time keeper) caused a lot of unnecessary chaos.
Was this the last time they did a legit green jersey game? I don’t even count FSU a couple years ago they did that because of how atrocious that years shamrock series jersey was and how few of them they sold.
Yeah after years of not watching I can finally watch it again and respect it to be a great football game. But at the time I was heartbroken. I don't know which was worse. The Michigan State loss earlier that year or this one?
I think just because this was #1 USC on a 27 game winning streak and all the hype surrounding it, this was a worse loss to swallow. The MSU loss and the way it happened really lingered too though.
rtrumble Yeah I think your right also I remember all the hype surrounding Charlie at the time on campus and everybody thought he would lead the Irish back as being relevant again even after his first season I thought he could still do it since it was his only first one. But that never worked out.
I remember this day between this USC-Notre Dame finish and the finish between Michigan and Penn State over on ABC, that was a wild 3:30 slot on two major networks.
One of the best CFB games you'll ever see (esp. since 'SC won). The venue, the score, the greatness of this rivalry...all were on display in this one. And I tell you: I'm an 'SC fan, but I dig those Kelly Green ND unis. Was pretty much of a perfect Saturday afternoon of CFB. And then, came the Rose Bowl (smh).
Michael Head nope! Day games are what college football are all about....those miami/fsu games in the 90s were at 9am PST get the games over with then go spend time with the family... your wife dont want to spend all night watching college football on a saturday night trust me.
The fact that this game was played in the afternoon sunshine and on real grass gives it a classic feel.
I wish more college football was still like this.
Can I make u a 🍻🍷🍷🍻
ALL football fields need artificial turf. It's cleaner in rainy games
@@jamedlock83artificial turf causes more injuries then well kept grass. Almost all NFL stadiums use grass. Most colleges use turf since it is cheaper to maintain.
@@natewill1464 soldier field????
There's a lot of schools who didn't take care of their grass. That's why ND went to Field Turf. They didn't maintain their grass enough to justify keeping it.
college football will never ever be this good .. im glad i grew up wathcing this
“bAcK iN mY dAy” lmao
Ah 2005. A much simpler time. USC was on top. MySpace was at its peak. You were on limewire looking for your favorite song. You made calls on a landline. People wore Livestrong bands. And when everyone had higlights in their hair. No worries about a virus. A conspiracy theory didn't flood the net. No stupid Instagram or Tiktok.
And we thought Lance Armstrong was legit!
You making me cry.
People were not making that many calls on landlines in 2005. Everyone had a cell phone by then, and making calls on cell phones was actually cheaper than making calls on landlines.
Hell yeah dude
yeah
One of the all-time classics. Amazing game.
Perfect way to spend off season...watching College Football on UA-cam!!
Yo
This game, the Texas-OSU game, and the Rose Bowl that year are three of the greatest games in the history of the sport, all in one season
TheLocalLt College football is not the same anymore.
And the Auburn-Georgia game which Auburn pulled out 31-30.
Michigan vs Penn State was the same day.
Last season of ABC Sports. Last year of this theme for ND on NBC
Who's calling the plays
@@troydixson8097 Tom Hammond and Pat Haden
It's 2005. My team (UGA) is a winning team during the height of Mark Richt's coaching era. Mom has some Dominoes on the way and she is making some spaghetti and garlic bread downstairs. My brother is playing Madden in our room and my dad is walking up the stairs with some cold Big Red sodas while I switch on to this game in my parents room on their big T.V. Good times. Good times.
cool story thanks for sharing...that does sound like good times...nothing beats football wtih family
I swear I remember watching this too. Funny what sticks in your memory.
Best game I ever saw college or pro and the Rose Bowl of that year as well was the best as well. USC had a team full of NFL caliber athletes and Notre Dame had a collection of guys that made them earn everything, it was a thrill to watch this one.
Couldn't agree more.
Nah, I like the USC vs Texas game later in the year better. Now that was epic compared to this.
@@osurocks24 TRUE
Matt Leinart vs. Vince Young Rose Bowl
@dark8prince201 *"Matt Leinart vs. Vince Young Rose Bowl'* Why Carroll can never be considered a great coach. Everybody knew Vince was running right, play after play, and Carroll could do nothing.
Wow I can't believe this was only recently. And College Football and sports was so much different then. No politics what so ever just playing sports. Miss that time. I remember watching this game and the ending as a Irish fan killed me. It's still an epic game and one of the best ever played. This is why I love and still love College Football.
Your fine with politics if you agree with them no?
@@Xzrohrh politics don’t belong in sports!!!!
@@Xzrohrh Politics doesn't belong in sports, if I want that I'll watch CNN or MSNBC or any those other crap stations. That's why ESPN is nothing but drama king trash now.
Man 2005 college football season was special
You'll Never see nick saban take his alabama teams on the road out of conference, into a Hostile environment, and play a #9, a #8 or a #6 team like Pete carroll use to do with USC.
Well, when the SEC annually puts 5,6 sometimes 7 of its teams in the top 20 it doesn't really matter, he's playing against the toughest competition in the country twice a month
@@cityofchamps66 LMAO! Ok..... hide behind your patty cake, bullshit schedule. I give your conference president credit for scheduling your conference favorably to make it to the big game. But let's not pretend you SEC folkd play a tough OOC schedule. Citadel, Lousiana-Monroe, Tennessee Chat and all those other pussy schools are NOT worthy opponents. GTFOH!
@@moet1823 I'm a college football fan? The SEC has produced 9 of the last 12 National Champions, it's not even open for debate which is the toughest and best football conference in the country GTFOH and STFU
Luther Van Sizzle LSU,Tennessee and Vandy are prob the only teams I’ve seen travel to OOC opponents in recent years
@@tikaij Georgia did travel to Notre Dame last year.
This is one of the greatest games of all time, pro or college.
The uncut, 6 inch grass will never not make me laugh. ND tried everything. Best rivalry when both are at at the top.
No rivalry will ever be better than Michigan vs Ohio state. It’s top 5 though
Yeah Mich vs Ohio St is different...
@@Ballinbmac Texas vs Oklahoma brother
@@billblaski9523 listen bro. Nothing is close to Michigan vs Ohio st
@@Ballinbmac no sir the iron bowl is the most infamous
I remember watching this as I kid and thinking even though they lost Charlie Weis is no doubt going to take Notre Dame back to the promised land. Never would have thought he eventually would become one of the biggest busts ever.
Fat ass prick.
Charlie Weis sucked! Lol ND winning championship this year
@@jamesconnor2278 wasn’t a prick. Weis was a good dude and loved Notre Dame. Never would have left them the way BK just did. He never could get the coaching part down though. Hell of a recruiter and that’s it.
This USC team was an absolutely insane team. Pretty sure everyone starting for them was drafted or played in the NFL.
But remember watching this game thinking Notre Dame didn't have a chance since USC were the champs and basically the same team as last year, so ND staying in this game was pretty big, Quinn looked like a NFLer in this game
No, the usc defense was terrible compared to the previous year. Especially the secondary, this is why they got exposed in the rose bowl by Vince Young.
HOW COULD THE TEXANS PASS ON REGGIE BUSH WTF!
Still enjoyable after all this time! I so wish USC would go back to greatness! I miss those years!
This season was just a great season all around! USC and Texas both go to wire-to-wire #1 and #2 the whole season, couldn't set up a better championship game
Also Maurice J Drew over their at UCLA also
I think 2005 was the greatest overall CFB season I've ever seen...
That 4th down play is still one of the clutchest plays I’ve seen in football til this day
Back in my day…it was a penalty to push the ball carrier forward. Now it’s become a rugby scrum on some plays.
@@mikecastelluccio7072 I was talking about the pass down the sideline on 4th and 9
I wish ND just let Jerrett score on that play. Not like USC had a defense that night.
USC in the 2000s - collected all the best talent from the state of CA (all you need) + surrounding states. Fast forward to 2019 - the best are all leaving PAC-12 territory because of the relative obscurity of west coast college football. Teams like Clemson and the SEC are grabbing the elite guys. What a difference 15 years makes.
Ah the infamous 'Bush Push'
Yawn. Everyone does that now
@@northwestprof60 yawn. The ball should’ve been placed at the 2 when Leinart fumbled.
I love that Notre Dame was wearing the navy blue jerseys for warmup and then switched to the green before they came out for kickoff
That luck ran out though.
Thank goodness for the 4th and 9 play.
Years later still gets me excited!
I absolutely enjoyed the USC Notre Dame football game in 2005! What a heck of a game this was! Also, the green jerseys from Notre Dame was a neat throwback!
The greatest intersectional rivalry in all of sports. As a USC fan, it is a privilege to be a part of this historical game.
Not lately 10 years later my friend
USC is gay
Soon both will be in the B1G?
It's NOT historical at all.
ND went 6-6 with Tyyyrrooonneee Willingham the year before. Carroll beat a 1st coach by 3 pts. So did unranked MSU.
ND beat 3 ranked teams that ALL finished UNRANKED. So ND beat no final ranked teams and lost to the 2 ranked teams they played. What a FING joke of game in retrospect.
ND is a farce. Never a conf championship, EVER, and is 0-1 in championship games. It gets better, 0-14 in bowls against top 15 teams since 95.
@@mas5867 ... u a Michigan or USC fan
It felt like time stopped when the ball left leinert hands on that 4th & 9
Man please... Did you feel like that when Alabama crushed Notre Dame?
This came up on my feed and you can still feel the electricity emanating from a game long ago. A all-time classic waking up the echos of greatness! Fight On! Troy.
Reggie bush was electrifying...
Say what you want!
And I hate SC
I hate racist Notre Dame
@@a.wilson2060 Ok what the fuck
3:09:16 has to be one of the greatest passes and receptions in football history! A 4th down do or die situation, just incredible!! For Leinart to put that ball exactly where it needed to be, Jarrett making the catch in stride with the DB right on his back who could’ve easily batted it down, absolutely amazing!!
This pass is ingrained in my memory from 18 years ago
@BOS37631 Finally, I feel like I'm the only one saying that. Especially since USC's defense was terrible that year.
Yes, and what is amazing as well is that on that 4th down, Leinart called an audible in that roaring stadium to set up that play to Jarrett when he noticed the one-on-one coverage on Jarrett who stood about one foot taller than the DB that was covering him. Leinart's pass landed right on the numbers...amazing.
@BOS37631 Totally agree and was thinking Coach Peter Carroll was ecstatic for that ND tackle in the red zone.
@IOI769 USC's defense was terrible that year. No doubt my Irish would've been the team that scored with 3 seconds left if they let him score.
I sold my tickets to this game to a fellow SC fan as I could not go, he saw the game of the century and he said he will never forget it.
I was at the game and at the Texas game. One game made me xry for joy, the other throw up
The 2006 Rose bowl was the game of the century.
USC was loaded with talent then but I really enjoyed watching this Fighting Irish team. Quinn was a solid college quarterback and Darius Walker was smooth. Notre Dame's defense was damn good, too.
Been looking for this game forever! Thank you so much!
These days feel like a century ago. The SEC has been dominant for so long that I can't even remember what it was like before when other conferences actually could compete.
Thank goodness for Elite Mighty Bama that just had the most dominant dynasty in the entire history of college football. The SEC has five different programs that have won the national title in the past twenty years.
@jasonh5547 Speaks to how bad the rest of the country is and HAS BEEN. Harbaugh on verge of being fired and makes the playoff twice in a row? WTF!
I was a huge USC Trojan fan having grown up in that neighborhood where USC is at. This game brings me back to those memories man, I was a senior in HS and I had been following the trojans since Troy Polumalu and Carson Palmer were on the team. What a game this was, watching it I am realizing I remember so many plays and moments. Even though I went on to attend Cal I always root for the Trojans and I hope they make a comeback and beat up on everyone (except Cal) like they used to lol
UsC was the Alabama of the early 2000's. Pete Carrol left them in shambles the bastard.
The craziest game I have ever watched in my life up to date. Matt Leinart will always be a God in the eyes of 'SC fans and is in college football immortality because of this.
Don't forget his academic achievement in ballroom dance.
@@tedpeters896 Great point Ted, never understood why he took such an easy course!
Like ND’s and the SEC’s grades in Finger Painting 101? LOL 😂 GTFOH Go back to your tutors!
@@bretcobearo373 I was being sarcastic in response to Ted, seems odd to pinpoint a singular class a guy took when he already completed the academic requirements to graduate and figured to take a class on dancing.
Charles Kruzits Those dance less helped him in the pocket😆😆😆😆
I paid $400 to watch this game on the 30 yard line! The evening before there were 45000 fans in the stands for the pep rally! I remember watching Lear jet after Lear jet flying into South Bend that night as the high rollers came out of the woodwork. Great memories!
Tommy Zs punt return was one of the best ive ever seen. Talk about determination. Get offff me he said
And at least 2 non-call illegal blocks in the back
I've been on the internet too much. 40 seconds in and the music playing in the background is giving me flashbacks of that naked russian dude dancing to Pirates of the Caribbean.
My favorite college game of all time
I hope the USC AD is home watching this! We need to get back to greatness! This not Cincinnati! ✌🏾
The analyst Pat Haden ended up becoming the next AD for USC after they were handed probation. I dont know if he still is.
Why you bring up Cincinnati.?
I have been watching and attending USC football for over 50 years and I am a proud USC alumni. I was at this game. The 1st and only time I’ve been to Notre Dame. It was the most epic football game I’ve ever seen. Fight On! ✌🏼🤨
This 05 Trojan team is one of the best teams ever
Only flaw this USC team had was defensive back play....other than that they were unbeatable for the most part. Any of these recent alabama teams wouldnt stand a chance against this USC team Reggie Bush was a man amongst boys.
USC lost 2 1st Team All Americans and 2 3rd Team All Americans in DTs Patterson and Cody, and LBs Tatupu and Grootegoed in 2004. No Team can Lose 2 All American DTs, and an All American MLB and OLB and get better. To say the secondary play (which did suck compared to 03 and 04 USC) was the only reason is wrong.
The last three national champs 2019 LSU, 2018 Clemson and 2017 Bama would beat this USC team.
H Smells no they wouldn’t they didn’t have the defenses to stop USC you’re out of your mind and using recency bias.
H Smells I don’t know about the 2017 Alabama squad, but the 2018 Clemson and 2019 LSU teams, yes. Those two were easily the two best college football teams that we’ve seen since the 2001 Miami Hurricanes.
That season every team they played was ranked in the top 20 half of them ranked in the top 15
Why did Norte Dame give up the natural grass? Games like these look better on real grass.
@Anthony Persichillo Because Brian Kelly wanted fake turf and he sucks.
Climate. By November, their grass looked like shit
@@northwestprof60 There are all kinds of northern teams that still have natural turf and it’s fine. Take Lambeau Field, for example. They play more games on their field and their season goes longer. Yes, they have the water heating system or water it is, but Notre Dame easily could have done that as well. Purdue has natural turf and it’s only about 100 miles South of Notre Dame. Michigan State went back to natural grass for this season and East Lansing is actually North of South Bend. Notre Dame has more money than God. They should be able to figure out how to make their field look nice for 6-7 games per year.
@@Whoopdido777 Matt, that field is HEATED with underground coils. The cost of that would be astronomical. It's the climate that does this: that's why virtually ALL schools at this latitude have gone to field turf. If a handful have gone back, they are about 1-2% of the schools who have done so!! When you figure in the cost of maintaining grass into November and even early December it is prohibitive. Notre Dame has a lot of money but it is largely spoken for and this project is not high on the list
@@northwestprof60 Yet they spent $400 million on their God awful looking Crossroads project which ruined the look of their stadium and, of course, added some luxury suites to boot. But even taking the coils out of the equation, if Purdue and Michigan State can maintain their fields into November, why wouldn’t Notre Dame be able to? Penn State has grass. Pittsburgh has grass. UConn has grass. All of those schools have very similar climates to Notre Dame In November.
I remember watching this game. Was dating a girl who had to work and I was bored as hell stuck at her house all day. Best college game I've ever watched. Reggie was amazing at USC.
Both team uniforms are awesome
This game & ironically USC vs Texas was the best college football game I have ever seen.
Damn I watched this senior year in HS. Seems like yesterday and this vid looks so retro LOL
One of the main reasons why this game was so great to watch was because of NBC. If this were on ESPN/ABC their annoying Commentators would be bugging us all game long!
Well if it was on ABC back then it would have still been great because ABC Sports was still around. Even ESPN was good back then. Only in the late 2000s when ESPN became about themselves rather than sports did it start to go off the rails. Getting rid of ABC Sports, an extremely valuable brand with 50 years of built up equity, was also a monumental mistake.
The only game where my team lost, not only lost but in heart breaking fashion, that I continue to come back and rewatch.
It pretty much happened against Ohio State 2023. Giving up score basically last play of the game.
What a great memory. Thank you UA-cam!
Holy Christ that 4th and 9 conversion to Dwayne Jarrett are you kidding me?
This is arguably the greatest game EVER PLAYED (in any sport).
Notre Dame should rock the green unis more often.
The Grass is very thick and uncut for obvious reasons
@@airprok8328 You are an Idiot.
"Grass was so long it could have been cut twice." ~Pete Carroll when asked in after game interview.
I’ll never forget watching this game. Unreal game and so awesome to rub it in the Irish’s face
Reggie Bush arguably the best rb that played college football.
dekolah5 but he didn't win a heisman tho
Barry Sanders says hello!
I wish those specific green jerseys were Notre dames standard home jerseys they are so awesome
The amount of adrenalin he must have felt at 3:09:10. When he sees the corner shade zone, then fake audibles to see if the corner stays set. Oooof...... chills.
This game and how it ended to me shows NO DOUBT about WHO started the Reggie Bush investigation.
Was Reggie guilty? Yes. However, that didn't.change the outcome of this game as it wasn't performance-related.
Reggie broke the (now archaic) rule of taking money TO HELP OUT HIS FAMILY.
Sure, that WAS a violation of the collegiate athlete rules. But Notre Dame lost this game, or, better yet, depending on perspective, USC WON this game because they were better talented than was ND.
SO THAT SHIT is just SHIT.
Did Reggie push? Yeah, he DID. Again, SO? Are you SERIOUSLY TELLING ME THAT IF ND DID THE SAME THING, THEY TOO WOULDN'T BE WRITING HERE WHAT I'M WRITING HERE?
Those were two great teams, but one was WAY OVERRATED and were lucky to be IN that game on that day.
I'm thinking of the 2004 National Championship game here... ND would have suffered the SAME FATE that OU suffered that New Year's day.
Fuck the "Bush Push".... AS ND fans would have ALSO ignored it if it helped THEM to victory.
Great game and finale, though. 🤣🤣🤣
Nick Saban would've taķen Alabama to any place knuckleheads!!!! He is the greatest college football coach ever. Know your sports irish fans. Put them in the sec ok it wouldn't be pretty lmfao 😅😅😅😂
Best college football game I have ever watched!
What! Knowing the following, you cannot feel the same way.
ND went 6-6 with Tyyyrrooonneee Willingham the year before. Carroll beat a 1st coach by 3 pts. So did unranked MSU.
ND beat 3 ranked teams that ALL finished UNRANKED. So ND beat no final ranked teams and lost to the 2 ranked teams they played. What a FING joke of game in retrospect.
ND is a farce. Never a conf championship, EVER, and is 0-1 in championship games. It gets better, 0-14 in bowls against top 15 teams since 95.
I remember like it was yesterday watching this game and losing my mind when the game ended only to be out done later that year when USC played Texas for the national championship
I wanted ND to win but even I knew something wasn't right when the clock ran out after Leinart fumbled it out of bounds.
Reggie Push!!! Ahahah greatest game I’ve ever seen as a kid! Fight on baby! ✌🏾
The Top Game of the Greatest Day in College Football.
I remember this GAME very well.....THE MEDIA WANTED THE IRISH LED BY A BELICHECK DISCIPLE WEISS to WIN sooooooo BAD it was PATHETIC. I also remember SKIP BAYLESS whining about THE BUSH PUSH.
Well to be fair. It would have been a great story. That's why they wanted them to win. The media loves great stories. The stadium. The history behind Notre Dame. The new savior coming in to resurrect the program. It would have been perfect.
Best USC team money can buy.
+HEAT1996 Haters gonna hate.
By the rules: this game wasn't played :)
Hey HEAT1996, you are uniformed. No one affiliated with USC paid Reggie Bush. Reggie was with USC already into his 3rd season when an outsider approached his dad. They collaborated to attempt to get reggie to sign with new area sports managment when reggie turned pro. This guy could care less about reggie playing for usc or not. There is alot more to the story which i not bother explaining to you. You just sound so ignorant throwing out stupid comments like that. Most of SC's roster were from SoCal and have always had USC on their radars. Fight on!
Haha.. Nice point. This game wasn't played and Notre Dame still lost.
they had a better defense but usc should have beaten Texas if it wasn't for reggie
This game was epic..
can anyone tell me why nbc got rid of this opening theme music?? i miss it so much!!
MAN, that was a good game....regardless of who won!
When that clock hit 0 after the leinhart fumble I was so happy…. Then I saw they weren’t calling it over. I knew we were fucked
I remember watching this game as kid before my own game damn played rb too Appreciate reggie for the memories tht first td brought em bacc
This game was
LIT......
Right at the end, NBC Sports threw it over to NASCAR's 2005 UAW GM Quality 500. This is an infamous race among NASCAR fans because of Goodyear tire failures that night, rivaling the 2008 Brickyard 400. Crazy that NBC broadcasted two famous sporting events back to back.
Yep! Lol
If ND pulled this out Charlie Weiss could still be coaching there to this day. This result changed so many things for ND.
It changed nothing. Weis didn’t know how to build a coaching staff, his strength and conditioning program was piss poor and his defenses were always bad. The only thing he did well was recruit, specifically in the offensive side of the ball.
The 2007-2009 seasons costed him.
go 1:19:47 if you want to know why passing records are being shattered now
Better believe it
i dont get it
Mitch it’s because those types of hits aren’t allowed anymore.
The SoCal Slam.
That Visacous Hit tho! 1:19:52 Classic Trojans!!
I was not able to watch this game live because I could not get NBC's signal in the holler of southwest Missouri I was living in at the time. Thank you for uploading this video.
Wow Jeff played on this Notre Dame Team
Any more USC games from this year ? Love watchiing this team
This game was instant classic
10yrs ago well known as The Bush Push for Reggie Bush pushing Matt Leinart into the endzone for the game winning touchdown
Greatest college football game that technically never happened. I was there and even as an ND fan it was an honor to be at such a terrific game
I know this is an old comment, but I just had to respond to you. The fact that you're a Noter Dame fan, I had a hard time not calling them what us SC fans call them but I have respect for you so I decided to say it right. But anyways, the fact that you're their fan yet you still made a positive comment and not one crying about how SC rightfully got a 2nd chance, proves to me that you're a true fan of the game and I have nothing but respect for you!!! I remember watching this game and listening to their fans screaming "bullshit" because they were given 7 seconds back to run another play. It was totally obvious that the ball went flying out of bounds with what I saw 8 seconds on the clock!! Really doesn't matter how many seconds we're on the clock, there was time left and the refs made the right call. But it was and probably still is one of the most exciting and fun games I've ever watched!!!
@@Westsideauditor1469 It was the right call no doubt. And if they had instant reply in this game it would have shown. Charlie should have put more men on the line during that last play. Everyone knew they were going to run it. I am sure that people were exhausted there after this game. I still like watching this game every now and then. I was at the Bama and Texas a&M game in 2012 and even though we lost in a good game it was a honor to see Manzel play in his prime.
I've got the entire game in HD, I should upload it soon.
best usc vs dame game period.
SC and Pete had the greatest football dynasty since SC and John McKay.
Bobby Bowden would like a word... and shouldn't a dynasty win more than 1?
@ericdaniel323 LOL. 14 top 5 finishes in a row and only 2 of 5 NCs to show for it. A losing record to every Cane coach with a NC, count em 4.
Still can’t believe they didn’t stop the clock when Leinart was tackled and the ball was very obviously knocked out of bounds. Smh that guy (the time keeper) caused a lot of unnecessary chaos.
Wow, thanks for this. Thought i'd never find this
USC defense was suspect. Vince Young proved the point.
Charles but they did beat Notre Dame!! Big Victory!!
I was at this game. As an SC fan, it was a great game to personally witness live!! True classic!!
Was this the last time they did a legit green jersey game? I don’t even count FSU a couple years ago they did that because of how atrocious that years shamrock series jersey was and how few of them they sold.
One of the best college football games I've ever seen. Wasn't happy about the way it ended, but legendary nonetheless
Yeah after years of not watching I can finally watch it again and respect it to be a great football game. But at the time I was heartbroken. I don't know which was worse. The Michigan State loss earlier that year or this one?
I think just because this was #1 USC on a 27 game winning streak and all the hype surrounding it, this was a worse loss to swallow. The MSU loss and the way it happened really lingered too though.
rtrumble
Yeah I think your right also I remember all the hype surrounding Charlie at the time on campus and everybody thought he would lead the Irish back as being relevant again even after his first season I thought he could still do it since it was his only first one. But that never worked out.
Penn state and Michigan had a great game on the same day as this game
one of the greatest college football games of all time
Congrats Reggie on getting your HEISMAN back‼🏈🎉✌🏽🦾
I remember this day between this USC-Notre Dame finish and the finish between Michigan and Penn State over on ABC, that was a wild 3:30 slot on two major networks.
One of the best CFB games you'll ever see (esp. since 'SC won). The venue, the score, the greatness of this rivalry...all were on display in this one. And I tell you: I'm an 'SC fan, but I dig those Kelly Green ND unis. Was pretty much of a perfect Saturday afternoon of CFB.
And then, came the Rose Bowl (smh).
I roll my eyes everytime I hear about Charlie Weis. What a joke.
holy shit this game is finally uploaded. thanks a lot!
Awesome. Thank you for uploading this... incredible game.
Is it me or should this game have been played at night?
they weren't allowed to at the time due to the NBC contract but the nbc contract from 2011 onwards allows them too
It’s just you. Honestly I wish Notre Dame would go back to playing day games. So much better
Michael Head nope! Day games are what college football are all about....those miami/fsu games in the 90s were at 9am PST get the games over with then go spend time with the family... your wife dont want to spend all night watching college football on a saturday night trust me.
Blackhawk89 exactly Notre Dame is a 3:30 PM ET game at home on NBC, and if on the road an 8:00 PM game on ABC or FOX
@@TheLocalLt I heard that it would have affected post game mass on campus if played at night.
That was an incredible game. Thanks for posting JaMarcusHustlelE!