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Half a dozen times in the decade since, Notre Dame has begun the season with a legion of supporters (and more than a few sportswriters and prognosticators) proclaiming the team had a legitimate case for being considered the #1 team in the country. Such a chastening experience should temper the expectations of every fan, no? Not by a long shot. Alabama won the game and the national championship, 42-14. The brave warriors of the Gold and Blue stormed into a Crimson Tide in the first week of 2013, and.realized they couldn’t swim.

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(I had free rein otherwise the only America editor who admitted to watching college football also wanted the sport banned.) Would the Fighting Irish bring home their first title since 1988, I mused? Could we once again proudly cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame? Wake up the echoes cheering her name? I did my best to wax eloquent: about the Four Horsemen of yore, about George Gipp and Raghib “Rocket” Ismail and Tim Brown and Joe Montana and Joe Theismann even standout 1940s defensive lineman James “Jungle Jim” Martin got a mention before the editors decided it would cause too much confusion for our readers. Their football team had started the 2012 season unranked, but reeled off 12 straight wins by Thanksgiving weekend, giving up an average of only 10 points a game en route to a perfect regular season record, a #1 ranking in most national polls and a slot in the national collegiate football championship against Alabama in early 2013. Back in the mists of time, a newly minted editor in chief of America, Matt Malone, S.J., asked me to write a few words on the sudden renaissance of what was once a source of great pride for American Catholics: the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame.