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Why did Notre Dame not play in bowl games
Posted on 1/11/11 at 3:49 pm
Posted on 1/11/11 at 3:49 pm
during the 60's?
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Posted on 1/11/11 at 3:51 pm to RJYH
ND had a policy of no bowl games for a long time. Ara lifted it in the middle of his tenure, sometime.
Posted on 1/11/11 at 3:51 pm to RJYH
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Posted on 1/11/11 at 3:52 pm to Buckeye Fan 19
In 1969, IIRC, as a great LSU team that season got screwed out of a Cotton Bowl berth against #1 Texas because ND decided to go bowling.
Posted on 1/11/11 at 3:54 pm to teke184
In those days, there was no poll done after the bowls. Whoever was #1 after the regular season was the national champions. Also, the bowl payouts were a pittance compared to what they are today.
Posted on 1/11/11 at 3:59 pm to trackfan
I thought that bowls weren't included only for a few seasons in the late 60's?
Posted on 1/11/11 at 4:00 pm to RJYH
I remembered them talking about this during the Sun Bowl. It related to Notre Dame's experience in the 1925 Rose Bowl. I googled to make sure, and came across this awesomely relevant SI article from December 1969.
quote:
The logic behind Notre Dame's refusal to participate in postseason play all of this time is known only to those faculty men in South Bend who have been responsible. More than likely it was based on the fact that in the 1920s Rockne's one trip took almost a month, going and coming, by train. But there can hardly be any excuses for the policy existing after World War II when modern transportation, either on the ground or in the sky, made it possible for both the squad and its student fans to attend a bowl and miss no classwork.
The continuation of the policy probably results from a misguided notion that participation in a bowl game would make Notre Dame look like a football factory. Football, of course, has done a great deal for Notre Dame—far more than anything else. Nor is there much wrong with this, except that there happen to be those within the bright glare of the Golden Dome who do not like to admit it.
Posted on 1/11/11 at 4:08 pm to RJYH
The bowl game was almost a letdown for Notre Dame standards, they're regular season schedule was more important to them - they played the heavyweights and the games with Army and Navy were the biggest games of the year back then.
Posted on 1/11/11 at 4:12 pm to nicholastiger
Every other year, the trip to USC in late November basically was the bowl game, too.
Posted on 1/11/11 at 5:18 pm to RJYH
Notre Dame did then, and still does point it's nose up and everyone else. They think they are the cream of the crop. That's why they didn't go bowling.
Posted on 1/11/11 at 5:30 pm to Akit1
Pretty sure that had nothing to do with it.
Posted on 1/11/11 at 5:46 pm to RJYH
quote:
Why did Notre Dame not play in bowl games
during the 60's?
They knew they would get beat like they currently do.
Posted on 1/11/11 at 5:50 pm to Suntiger
Not this year. 
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