NCAA College Football Championship Game
Jan. 7, 2013
Notre Dame (12-0, BCS No. 1) vs. Alabama (12-1, BCS No. 2)
At of the start of the 2012 season, Alabama and Notre Dame have met six times, all between 1973-1987. In those games, Notre Dame has won 5 of the 6 games.
11/14/1987 Notre Dame 37 - Alabama 6
10/4/1986 Alabama 28 - Notre Dame 10
11/15/1980 Notre Dame 7 - Alabama 0
11/13/1976 Notre Dame 21 - Alabama 18
1/1/1975 (Orange Bowl) Notre Dame 13 - Alabama 11
12/31/1973 (Sugar Bowl) Notre Dame 24 - Alabama 23
NOTRE DAME
The University of Notre Dame du Lac (or simply Notre Dame /ˌnoʊtərˈdeɪm/ noh-tər-daym) is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States. The name of the university, "Notre Dame," is French for "Our Lady," a Catholic honorific salutation in reference to the Virgin Mary, the patron saint of the university.
The school was founded by Father Edward Sorin, CSC, who was also its first president, and even today many Holy Cross priests serve the school—most notably the president of the university. It was established as an all-male institution on November 26, 1842, on land donated by the Bishop of Vincennes, Indiana. The university first enrolled women undergraduates in 1972. As of 2012 about 47 percent of the student body was female. Notre Dame's Catholic character is reflected in its explicit commitment to the Catholic faith, numerous ministries funded by the school, and the architecture around campus. According to a 1962 Time Magazine article, Notre Dame is considered one of the "Big Three" universities in American Roman Catholic higher education.
The university today is organized into five colleges and one professional school, and its graduate program awards 32 master's and 25 doctoral degrees.Over 80% of the university's 8,000 undergraduates live on campus in one of 29 single-sex residence halls, each of which fields teams for more than a dozen intramural sports, and the university counts approximately 120,000 alumni.
Notre Dame's athletic teams are members of the NCAA Division I and are known collectively as the Fighting Irish. The football team, an Independent, has accumulated eleven consensus national championships, seven Heisman Trophy winners, and sixty-two members in the College Football Hall of Fame. Other ND teams, chiefly in the Big East, have accumulated 16 national championships.
The school was founded by Father Edward Sorin, CSC, who was also its first president, and even today many Holy Cross priests serve the school—most notably the president of the university. It was established as an all-male institution on November 26, 1842, on land donated by the Bishop of Vincennes, Indiana. The university first enrolled women undergraduates in 1972. As of 2012 about 47 percent of the student body was female. Notre Dame's Catholic character is reflected in its explicit commitment to the Catholic faith, numerous ministries funded by the school, and the architecture around campus. According to a 1962 Time Magazine article, Notre Dame is considered one of the "Big Three" universities in American Roman Catholic higher education.
The university today is organized into five colleges and one professional school, and its graduate program awards 32 master's and 25 doctoral degrees.Over 80% of the university's 8,000 undergraduates live on campus in one of 29 single-sex residence halls, each of which fields teams for more than a dozen intramural sports, and the university counts approximately 120,000 alumni.
Notre Dame's athletic teams are members of the NCAA Division I and are known collectively as the Fighting Irish. The football team, an Independent, has accumulated eleven consensus national championships, seven Heisman Trophy winners, and sixty-two members in the College Football Hall of Fame. Other ND teams, chiefly in the Big East, have accumulated 16 national championships.