"I would say I'm 100 per cent," he said recently, "But you can't put a number on it." And then he proceeded to, well, put a number on it. "No one ever knows when they are 100 per cent or what percentage they're playing at. The biggest thing is, I'm not below 100." Which, if I learned anything in those mindnumbing high school math classes, means he therefore must be 100 per cent.That game was especially galling to Alabama fans, since the tie didn't prevent Notre Dame from winning the first of two national titles during the Parseghian era. The Fighting Irish stayed atop the rankings ahead of both the mighty Spartans (who had four of the top eight picks in the next NFL draft) and a Tide team that posted a perfect record in the quest for an unprecedented third straight championship (to this day, no team has finished No. 1 in The Associated Press rankings three years in a row)..

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