Perhaps the best undefeated team in the history of college
football--the dramatic true story of the 1988 Notre Dame Fighting
Irish and their incredible unbeaten seasonThey were an unlikely
crew tasked with a seemingly impossible mission: restore Notre
Dame's place as a college football power. In 1988, led by a
scrawny, bespectacled coach who spoke with a lisp, a black Baptist
quarterback from South Carolina, and a ferocious defense, they
returned Notre Dame to the top.Before Lou Holtz's arrive, the
one-storied program of Rockne, Leahy, Parseghian, and George Gipp
and the Four Horsemen had become at best mediocre and, even worse,
mentally and physically soft. The downward drift culminated in a
58-7 bashing on national TV against the University of Miami, a
flashy upstart that stormed its way to the top spot in college
football.This is the first in-depth look at the players, the
coaches, the campus, and the season that returned Notre Dame to its
glory.Throughout all of Notre Dame's lore, no Fighting Irish team
has had more characters than the '88 squad. The starting
linebackers, nicknamed the Three Amigos, were known for crazed
antics such as leaving game tickets for Elvis Presley or smoking a
reporter's cigar during practice. The five-foot-nothing walk-on
kicker used visualization and a sort of voodoo jazz-hands to ready
himself for field goals. Tony Rice, the against-the-odds
quarterback, was mocked because of his high school academic
credentials and continually questioned by the media about whether
he could ever truly succeed as a quarterback for Notre Dame. The
team was also stacked with future NFL talent, including Ricky
Watters and Raghib "Rocket" Ismail.In a thrilling twist of fate,
the season's schedule served as a national championship elimination
tournament. No game was bigger--or more hyped--than the matchup
with No. 1-ranked Miami. In a game dubbed "Catholics vs. Convicts,"
the Irish won in the final seconds by a single point.
With original reporting, interviews with everyone from the players
to the coaches, detailed research, and access to the Notre Dame
archives, Jerry Barca tells the gripping story of an unbelievable
season and a team that became legendary. More than a Notre Dame
book, "Unbeatable" is the compelling narrative of one of the most
incredible sports stories of the last century.
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