Throwback Thursday: Notre Dame vs. Michigan, 1989

Notre Dame’s Raghib Ismail #25During the football season I try my best to tie in my Throwback Thursday post with the team Notre Dame is facing that week, but no one wants to look back to the 2011 match-up of Notre Dame vs. South Florida. So instead I’m going to use this week’s post to look back at a game that happened this week in Notre Dame history: Notre Dame vs. Michigan game, 1989. Here we go!

On September 16th, 1989, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to face the Michigan Wolverines. It was one of the most electrifying single-game performances in Notre Dame history by Raghib “Rocket” Ismail, in which he tied the NCAA record (with himself) by…