Scott Van Pelt and Rece Davis share an amazing story about Lou Holtz playing golf at Augusta National.
Holtz - a member at Augusta - would routinely lay up on the par-3 12th hole for up-and-down pars over Rae's Creek.
Legend behavior. �
This story is now more than 25 years old and I have told it more times than I can count, but it hits very differently today.
I was anchoring SportsCenter one afternoon and Lou Holtz was on the show. I was quite excited to talk with him, he had been an icon all of my life.
He was very friendly, asking me all about myself as we walked toward the studio to record an interview. I told him: “Actually, Coach, it’s quite exciting, my wife and I are expecting our first child in the next few weeks.”
He stopped dead in his tracks and put a finger up near my face. And I’ll never forget what he said.
“Young man, the most important thing you can do for a child is make sure every day they know how much you love their mother.”
And, just like that, he started walking again.
Our daughter was born a month later, our son came two years after that. And I have thought about what Lou Holtz said to me that day about a million times since.
RIP Coach, thanks for the best advice anyone ever gave me.
Love thee, Notre Dame 🎶
Last night, more than 1,600 Notre Dame students braved 19° temps for Mass at St. Olaf’s Chapel, built by Coyle Hall residents from the 38 inches of January snow.
You know what’s wild?
Indiana is the only team left in the College Football Playoff that won a conference championship this season.
Heck, they’re the only team that even played in a conference championship this season.
Wait…
Since the CFP expanded to 12 teams, Indiana is the only conference champion to make the CFP semifinals.
#TUSTATS
🏈Lincoln Riley says that USC isn't to blame for the cancellation of the Notre Dame rivalry.
📺@Brady_Quinn gives @TheJonasKnox and @LaVarArrington every reason why this is just a PR move by the Trojans and how they are the REAL reason why this rivalry got canceled.
Dating back to 2014 when the CFP was created, 86 of 88 conf champ game losers were moved down in the rankings after. 2022 TCU and 2025 Alabama were the exception. 2022 TCU was 12-0 and stayed in 3rd place after a conf champ loss. That’s it. That’s the list. @JohnDBrice1
Great point! There is precedent.
#2 Auburn lost the SEC title game to a Georgia team they DOMINATED earlier in the season.
They lost 28-7, which gave them 3 losses.
They dropped 5 spots in the rankings.
Fix it, @CFBPlayoff.
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Hilarious. The committee says Bama is in because only the 12 game sample matters. Last week, based off 12 games, Notre Dame was ahead of Miami.
No more games played, now Miami ahead of ND? lol.
Congrats to the sport of College Football for making Conference Championship games irrelevant and making a mockery of this voting system.
Notre Dame was the 4th Favorite to win the title, and was just left out of the playoff