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1997 – 2009
The measure: No championship followed 1988. Between Holtz's title and Notre Dame's next appearance in a championship game — the 2012 season's — twenty-four seasons passed, and the three tenures that carried the program across most of them are recorded, at their documented size, in the Archives' coaching table.
Davie: Bob Davie, a Holtz assistant, coached 1997–2001 and went 35–25.
Willingham: Tyrone Willingham coached 2002–04 and went 21–15, dismissed after three seasons.
Weis: Charlie Weis coached 2005–09 and went 35–27. His first season held the era's most famous single game: the "Bush Push" game against Southern California in 2005, a USC win at Notre Dame Stadium decided in its last seconds — a win later vacated in the NCAA's accounting of the series, as the apparatus records.
Sources:
- University of Notre Dame Archives, football coaching records — the Davie, Willingham and Weis tenures and marks.
- Southern California rivalry record — the 2005 "Bush Push" game as documented event; the vacatur of USC's win.