Notre Dame enters the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl having won its final seven games of the regular season, the longest Irish winning streak to end a season since the ’88 championship team and the third longest current winning streak in the country behind Oklahoma (12) and Miami (9).The first bowl game for Notre Dame followed the 1924 season when Knute Rockne led his team to a 27-10 win over Stanford in the 1925 Rose Bowl to claim the national championship.The Tostitos Fiesta Bowl marks the 24th bowl game for the Irish (13-10) and the 12th in 14 years.Notre Dame will play in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl for the third time following previous appearances in 1988 (def.USC) Junior CB Shane Walton – Broken right forearm vs. Senior TE Jabari Holloway – Sprained knee vs. Nebraska (out for season, had surgery Sept. Senior DE Grant Irons – Dislocated right shoulder vs. Junior QB Arnaz Battle – Fractured left navicular (wrist) vs. He coached nine seasons at Texas A&M (’85-’93), two at Tulane (’83-’84), four at Pittsburgh (’77, ’80-’82) and two at Arizona (’78-’79), spending both years at Tulane as defensive coordinator and the last five at Texas A&M in that role. The 2000 season marks Davie’s seventh year at Notre Dame overall, after serving as defensive coordinator and inside linebacker coach from 1994-96. 22 West Virginia to mark the first time a Notre Dame team beat ranked foes on consecutive weeks since November ’92. 5 and defending national champion Michigan gave him three wins over a ranked teams after his ’97 squad beat No. 23 Texas A&M, and the win over 13th-ranked Purdue marked the earliest the Irish have beaten two ranked opponents since 1990. Davie coached the Irish to a second season-opening ranked win in 2000 against No. In 2000 he led the Irish to their third best improvement (+4.5 games) from one season to the next in Notre Dame history. Davie was one of three finalists for the Football News 2000 coach-of-the-year award and was one of 10 finalists for the 1998 Walter Camp Foundation/Street and Smith’s Coach of the Year Award. 5 that Davie has signed a five-year contract to continue coaching the Irish through the 2005 season. Fourth-year Irish head coach Bob Davie owns a 30-18 (.625) career record at Notre Dame.
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