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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr><td class="yspsctnhdln">Irish accept bid to Insight Bowl in Phoenix</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="7"><spacer type="block" height="1" width="1"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> By TOM COYNE, AP Sports Writer
November 28, 2004 SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Notre Dame accepted an invitation Sunday to play in the Insight Bowl in Phoenix against a Pac-10 team on Dec. 28.
The Irish (6-5) accepted the bid a day after losing to Southern California for a third straight season, this time 41-10.
``It makes the winter a lot easier if you finish on a high note as opposed to finishing on a losing note with that losing taste in your mouth,'' Coach Tyrone Willingham said. ``Even though our season should provide great motivation for us during the winter because it was a season we didn't reach our expectations, but you like to go in doing anything feeling good about what you're doing.''
<table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="1" hspace="10" vspace="5"> <tbody><tr> <td> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td align="center">[size=-2]ADVERTISEMENT[/size]</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>The Insight Bowl has a $750,000 payout.
The opponent is supposed to be the fourth- or fifth-place Pac-10 team. Whether No. 4 California (4-1) earns a Bowl Championship Series berth will affect who the Irish play, as will USC's game against UCLA. The Irish could face Arizona State (8-2), UCLA (6-4) or Oregon State (6-5).
The Irish haven't won a bowl game since ending the 1993 season ranked No. 2 after beating No. 7 Texas 24-21 in the Cotton Bowl.
Since then the Irish have lost six straight postseason games.
``It would be a great way for these seniors to leave something very positive in this program,'' Willingham said. ``I believe it gives us that feeling, that sensation, that we still have some business to take care of.''
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr><td class="yspsctnhdln">Irish accept bid to Insight Bowl in Phoenix</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="7"><spacer type="block" height="1" width="1"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> By TOM COYNE, AP Sports Writer
November 28, 2004 SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Notre Dame accepted an invitation Sunday to play in the Insight Bowl in Phoenix against a Pac-10 team on Dec. 28.
The Irish (6-5) accepted the bid a day after losing to Southern California for a third straight season, this time 41-10.
``It makes the winter a lot easier if you finish on a high note as opposed to finishing on a losing note with that losing taste in your mouth,'' Coach Tyrone Willingham said. ``Even though our season should provide great motivation for us during the winter because it was a season we didn't reach our expectations, but you like to go in doing anything feeling good about what you're doing.''
<table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="1" hspace="10" vspace="5"> <tbody><tr> <td> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td align="center">[size=-2]ADVERTISEMENT[/size]</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>The Insight Bowl has a $750,000 payout.
The opponent is supposed to be the fourth- or fifth-place Pac-10 team. Whether No. 4 California (4-1) earns a Bowl Championship Series berth will affect who the Irish play, as will USC's game against UCLA. The Irish could face Arizona State (8-2), UCLA (6-4) or Oregon State (6-5).
The Irish haven't won a bowl game since ending the 1993 season ranked No. 2 after beating No. 7 Texas 24-21 in the Cotton Bowl.
Since then the Irish have lost six straight postseason games.
``It would be a great way for these seniors to leave something very positive in this program,'' Willingham said. ``I believe it gives us that feeling, that sensation, that we still have some business to take care of.''