By GUERIN EMIG Sports Writer on Oct 23, 2012, at 9:14 AM Updated on 10/23 at 9:17 AM
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Mystical things start to happen when Notre Dame appears on the schedule. You start paying attention to things like karma and game dates as much as matchups and strategies.
Which is why Oklahoma assistant AD Kenny Mossman was right to fire off this tweet Monday afternoon: "The fact that this year's OU-ND game falls on the same day as that of OU's win at South Bend in 1956 is interesting."
Yep. Oct. 27, 1956. The day the Sooners scored their one and only win over the Fighting Irish. 40 to zip.
Now, as Pablo Harvey once said, the rest of the story...
All credit to colleague Matt Doyle. He was the first to notice something peculiar about Oct. 27, and he sent me an email about it last week.
"With the OU-Notre Dame game falling on Oct. 27, Sooners should be aware of misfortune that date has presented. OU has lost the last three games it has played on Oct. 27:
***2001: No. 2 Nebraska 20, OU 10: Mike Stuntz to Eric Crouch, Jason White injures knee, 20-game win streak snapped.
***1990: Colorado 32, OU 23: Buffaloes stampede OU en route to their share of national title.
***1984: Kansas 28, OU 11: Troy Aikman's starting debut capped by car accident that night that ended playing careers of OU DBs Keith Stanberry and Andre Johnson."
How wild is that? The Sooners' last win on Oct. 27 occurred in the 70s. Oct. 27, 1979, to be exact. 38-9 over Iowa State thanks to four Billy Sims touchdowns.
That result extended OU's unbeaten streak on Oct. 27 to 10, dating all the way back to… well… forever. That's right. The Sooners had never lost a football game on Oct. 27, until Dodge Schwartzburg and the Jayhawks got them in '84.
They haven't been the same since. Not on that date at least.
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