Everything about the BCS championship between No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 Alabama seems larger than life.
Not only do these schools stand among the best ever in college football, they also lead the pack in celebrating that success and in investing for the future.
If ever college football presented a heavyweight event it?s the Fighting Irish against the Crimson Tide.
So here, then, is a tale of the tape for Monday?s marquee matchup in Miami.
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? FOOTBALL BUILDING
ALABAMA: The Mal M. Moore Athletic Facility, named for the current athletic director, has a 20,000-square-foot strength and conditioning center ? which is soon to be replaced ? plus aquatic rehabilitation pools. The building also houses athletic administrators and the football offices.
NOTRE DAME: The Guglielmino Athletics Complex, named after the booster who funded it, has a 25,000-square-foot health and fitness center, meeting rooms and the football offices. Plus, the Morse Recruiting lounge with championship banners for Notre Dame?s ?11 consensus national championships.?
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? TROPHIES
ALABAMA: The ?Hall of Champions? overlooks the lobby on the second floor of the athletic facility. It has trophy cases for the Crimson Tide?s 14 national champions ? including a spot where ?Bama is hoping 2012 can be added ? and a large case for the 23 Southeastern Conference title teams. Prominently perched on a marble pedestal is Mark Ingram?s 2009 Heisman Trophy, the program?s first.
NOTRE DAME: The lobby of the Gug, as the athletics complex is called, is basically one of college football?s largest trophy cases. The first thing visitors see is Notre Dame?s last national championship trophy, the coaches? trophy the Irish received after the 1988 season. To the left, across the wall are seven Heisman Trophies. No other school has won more.
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? WEIGHT ROOM
ALABAMA: A new weight room is nearly completed. Trustees approved the $9.1 million, 34,495-square-foot, two-story strength and conditioning facility in August that will connect the athletic building and the indoor practice facility. It?s expected to be ready in early February.
NOTRE DAME: The football players work out at the Haggar Fitness Center in the Gug. It features more than 250 pieces of weight training equipment, six flat-screen TVs and a sound system, and it?s available to all Notre Dame athletes.
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? STATUES
ALABAMA: Coach Nick Saban?s towering likeness stands next to Bryant-Denny Stadium, offering a good spot for fan pictures on game day. The 9-foot statue is one of five honoring Tide football coaches who have won national titles, joining Wallace Wade, Frank Thomas, Paul W. ?Bear? Bryant and Gene Stallings in the Walk of Champions plaza. It was unveiled in the spring of 2011, 15 months after ?Bama won the 2009 championship.
NOTRE DAME: Walk around Notre Dame Stadium and at each entrance you?ll find a statute of one of its championship-winning coaches. Knute Rockne?s guards the north tunnel, facing Touchdown Jesus. Dan Devine is at Gate A. Ara Parseghian is at Gate B. Frank Leahy is at Gate C. Lou Holtz is at Gate D.
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? MASCOTS
Article source: http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/bcs-championship-tale-tape-18129302
Source: http://www.buzzmontgomery.com/2013/01/04/bcs-championship-tale-of-the-tape/2596
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