Alabama vs Notre Dame Full Game Replay 1/7/2013 BCS National Championship
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Alabama vs Notre Dame Full Game Replay 2013 BCS National Championship NCAA College Football
Date: January 7, 2013
Season: 2012
Stadium: Sun Life Stadium
Location: Miami Gardens, Florida
Referee: Land Clark (Pac-12)
Attendance: 80,120
Alabama Crimson Tide vs Notre Dame Fighting Irish 2013 What to Watch:
The Crimson Tide and the Fighting Irish will square off in one of the most anticipated fights in recent memory at the national championship game.
Because the Fighting Irish and the Tide are basically the same squad in different places in practically every aspect. There are similarities in the fan bases, head coaches, and playing styles. Perhaps South Bend is Tuscaloosa without a Southern accent, or Tuscaloosa is South Bend with one. The fact that we are watching two programs that enthrall college football even when they are irrelevant is one of the reasons this game is so fascinating tonight.
Then, for the first time in over four decades, Alabama and Notre Dame square off on the same field to determine who is superior, both teams having a realistic chance to win the national championship. Both of them are now pertinent. Charlie Weis is in Kansas, and the three Mikes have left. However, by getting together once more, Alabama and Notre Dame are actually getting to know one another.
For starters, neither of these teams ought to be present. Not because they don't deserve to be here, mind you, but rather because both of them have defied expectations to arrive in Miami this evening.
The most unlikely is probably Notre Dame. The Irish have violated the long-standing rule that a team that is not in both preseason polls (and typically reasonably high in those polls) will not make it to the national championship game in the postseason just by playing. Notre Dame was not a unanimous Top 25 team prior to the start of the season, even though they were not entirely unranked this year—they started at No. 24 in the coaches' poll. Since the beginning of the BCS, no other team has ever gone from being outside the consensus to competing for the crystal football.
Although Alabama is less likely—at least not in the eyes of the public—what they have accomplished is nonetheless uncommon. No SEC club has advanced to the BCS National Championship Game twice in a row since the streak started in the 2006 season. Without a doubt, no team has ever won the national championship, lost five players in the top 35 picks of the NFL Draft that year, and then gone on to win the SEC Championship the following year after going 12-1. That's simply not how it's done, at least not lately.
