The Biggest Game of Them All: Notre Dame, Michigan State, and the Fall of '66The epic 1966 gridiron showdown--an all-time college football classic that would change the sport forever--featured a dozen all-Americans, a score of future pros, and a coach who will always be linked with his final decision in the first nationally televised, nationally-obsessing mega-Game. Few things would ever be the same after the fall of 1966, as network TV and the NCAA realized that football plus TV added up to a gold mine. 8 pages of photographs. |
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