Daily Trivia Question for Thursday

by **Sonny** on Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:56 am

What was the last bowl game that Notre Dame won (opponent and year)?

No googling allowed or you are just cheating yourself.

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by **KnoxVegas** on Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:10 am

I got 1993 Cotton Bowl but I cannot remember who they played. 12 years of futility, including a year where they declined an invitation to the then Pulan Independence Bowl because, ahem, their play that season didn't warrant a bowl game appearance that year.

More like they didn't wnat to get beat by the likes of a then inept, wait they still are, VPI squad.

by **Sonny** on Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:12 am

1994 Cotton Bowl - ND over Texas A&M.

by **Sonny** on Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:24 am

7 bowl losses in a row for the Irish gives them a 13-13 all-time bowl record:

L
01-02-1995
ND 24, Colorado 41
Fiesta Bowl

L
01-01-1996
ND 26, Florida State 31
Orange Bowl

L
12-28-1997
ND 9, Louisiana State 27
Independence Bowl

L
01-01-1999
ND 28, Georgia Tech 35
Gator Bowl

L
01-01-2001
ND 9, Oregon St. 41
Fiesta Bowl

L
01-01-2003
ND 6, North Carolina State 28
Gator Bowl

L
12-28-2004
ND 21, Oregon St. 38
Insight Bowl

by **Brent Burns** on Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:11 am

I still remember the day that my wife and I got engaged was on January 1, 1986 because that was when Texas A&M defeated Auburn at the Cotton Bowl.

by **mholtz** on Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:24 am

Brent Burns wrote:I still remember the day that my wife and I got engaged was on January 1, 1986 because that was when Texas A&M defeated Auburn at the Cotton Bowl.

Texas A&M winning a bowl game was why you remember the day? Make sure your wife doesn't read uslia.com.

by **Brent Burns** on Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:33 am

mholtz wrote:
Brent Burns wrote:I still remember the day that my wife and I got engaged was on January 1, 1986 because that was when Texas A&M defeated Auburn at the Cotton Bowl.

Texas A&M winning a bowl game was why you remember the day? Make sure your wife doesn't read uslia.com.

Yup, that is the reason it helps me REMEMBER that day. Nah, I have no worries because my wife does not give a hoot about uslia.com. :lol:

She would simply roll her eyes when I share some uslia news with her. :wink:

Although my wife is a Long Island girl, she prefers to watch ice skating, gymnastics to lacrosse.

by **lil lady lax fan** on Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:03 pm

Seeing things from her perspective (aka the woman's POV) I'm sure she's just happy you get the day right!!! :lol:

Trivia Question: which football team has the winningest record for bowl games? The losingest?

by **Timbalaned** on Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:10 pm

Sonny wrote:7 bowl losses in a row for the Irish gives them a 13-13 all-time bowl record:

L
01-02-1995
ND 24, Colorado 41
Fiesta Bowl

L
01-01-1996
ND 26, Florida State 31
Orange Bowl

L
12-28-1997
ND 9, Louisiana State 27
Independence Bowl

L
01-01-1999
ND 28, Georgia Tech 35
Gator Bowl

L
01-01-2001
ND 9, Oregon St. 41
Fiesta Bowl

L
01-01-2003
ND 6, North Carolina State 28
Gator Bowl

L
12-28-2004
ND 21, Oregon St. 38
Insight Bowl

I hope Ohio State gives it to them good this year and those Gold Helmet cheaters keep the streak alive

by **tamu33** on Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:19 pm

A&M has never won a bowl game that I've attended.

1992 - Cotton Bowl loss to ND
1993 - Cotton Bowl loss to ND
1997 - Cotton Bowl loss to UCLA
1998 - Sugar Bowl loss to Ohio St. (BCS)
1999 - Alamo Bowl loss to Penn St.
2000 - Independence Bowl loss to Miss. St. (didn't actually attend but had tickets and a snow storm in dallas kept me home)

So from now on I am staying away from A&M bowl games.

Interesting side note that I found out yesterday in another forum. Texas A&M's First win in football was against Galveston Ball HIGH SCHOOL in 1894.

by **Brent Burns** on Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:29 pm

tamu33 wrote:Interesting side note that I found out yesterday in another forum. Texas A&M's First win in football was against Galveston Ball HIGH SCHOOL in 1894.

To back up tamu33's assertion, I found another site which interestingly came from another source- University of Kansas' website:

http://www.kusports.com/football/foes/2002/tam.html

Ali, you would be surprised to read that Houston High defeated A&M, 10-0 in 1897.

by **bste_lax** on Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:02 pm

Sonny wrote:1994 Cotton Bowl - ND over Texas A&M.

I believe I was at that game. It was an ice bowl and we froze our butts off. My family and I had like 10 of those hand warmers things in our shoes to warm our feet up.

I believe this is also the game where Greg Hill was suspended for working some illegal job or something along those lines.

by **KnoxVegas** on Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:27 pm

Brent Burns wrote:I still remember the day that my wife and I got engaged was on January 1, 1986 because that was when Texas A&M defeated Auburn at the Cotton Bowl.

My wife and I got married 12/31/04. We awoke the next morning, just in time to watch America's Team (when they played in bowl games) defeat Texas A&M in the Fraud, er Cotton Bowl on 1/1/05.

I knew it was time to ask her to marry me back in '03 when she sent me a SMS that read "Does being a Tennessee fan mean I have to get used to the losing?"

Go Vols! Beat Cal!

by **tamu33** on Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:28 pm

At the Cotton Bowl that same year (1994) is when I saw my first glimpse of european women and by that I mean at the World Cup game where a german woman was wearing a bikini top and didn't shave her underarms..... STILL GROSSED OUT.

GERMANY over S. KOREA will live forever in my mind for the wrong reasons.