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This time, Ryan Day will know exactly where Lou Holtz is after the game. The former Notre Dame coach plans to be in Atlanta on Jan. 20. siding with the Fighting Irish, who he predicts will defeat Ohio State to win the national championship.
No surprise there. It would be traitorous for Holtz, who coached Notre Dame to its last national title in 1988, to pick against the Irish.
“Notre Dame has great team chemistry and their offensive and defensive line dominated everybody they played, including Georgia,” Holtz said Sunday, explaining some of his reasoning for picking his former team.
He added that quarterback Riley Leonard has played well and tailback Jeremiyah Love has been “outstanding.”
Oct 7, 2023; Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; Former North Carolina State Wolfpack head coach Lou Holtz is honored along with his 1973 football team during the first half at Carter-Finley Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Rob Kinnan-USA TODAY Sports
As for his thoughts on Ohio State, if you were expecting Holtz to opine that Day and the Buckeyes are not tough enough, as he did before last season’s OSU-ND game in South Bend, Indiana, well, he went the other way.
Instead of snarking on Day, Holtz sympathized with him. Sort of. The 88-year-old West Virginia native who grew up in East Palestine, Ohio, knows what it means to be on the hot seat, as Day was early last month after losing to Michigan a fourth consecutive time.
Holtz never had a losing record at Arkansas – the Razorbacks went 30-5-1 in his first three seasons and 30-16-1 his last four – but athletic director Frank Broyles fired him after the Hogs went 6-5 in 1983.
Seven years earlier, Holtz had resigned from the New York Jets with one game remaining in the NFL season, having stumbled through a 3-10 morass.
“God did not put Lou Holtz on the earth to coach in the pros,” he said at…
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Author : The Columbus Dispatch
Publish date : 2025-01-12 19:05:00
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