A #12 @ #3 game televised on the Mothership vs a #13 @ #18 game televised on the competition... Hmmmmm?
Only if Michigan loses to Indiana next weekend.
Otherwise PSU vs. Michigan will still be the bigger game.
I'm not as worried about our corners as everyone else. Or the USC passing game at all for the matter.
The person who scares me the most is Ronald Jones. Everytime someone is out of position, he can take it to the house. He's the RB version of Will Fuller.
We stop Ronald Jones, and it's game, set, blouses.
Losing him to SC was the darkest timeline
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He could've run behind our OL, who's timeline is darkest?
USC just doesn't scare me this year. Something about them screams soft. Their win over Oregon State was actually the smallest margin of victory for any team against Oregon State this year.
They have a good offense but are prone to mistakes. They have had 13 turnovers this year and have forced 15, but literally all of those came in their games against Oregon State, Cal, and Texas. They are 59th in total defense, and 55th in rush defense.
I see this game being close for a while because it's a rivalry but going up 2 scores in the 4th and then the defense forcing a big turnover that we turn into more points.
For all you 5-1 tough guys who aren't afraid of SC...
I hope the team you aren't afraid of shows up.
This season is sudden death now. If SC shows up firing on all cylinders, ND will have to do the same or they'll get beat... and they may even get beat then too.
I'm scared to death of this game. This is our biggest rival. I don't care how they have played the rest of the season, USC will be ready to play when they get to SB. And it'll be a fight to the finish.
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For all you 5-1 tough guys who aren't afraid of SC...
I hope the team you aren't afraid of shows up.
This season is sudden death now. If SC shows up firing on all cylinders, ND will have to do the same or they'll get beat... and they may even get beat then too.
It'll be nice to have a legitimate home field advantage for the first big game of this year. This will be nothing like Georgia, USC isn't going to travel like that.
This will be a loud house.
We were there for that game. It was great, I would say about 40% of the fans were ND fans.
usc always travels to ND well, but yes they are not georgia fans. 90% of the fans will be Irish
Georgia wasn't a big game?It'll be nice to have a legitimate home field advantage for the first big game of this year. This will be nothing like Georgia, USC isn't going to travel like that.
This will be a loud house.
Georgia wasn't a big game?
My first game at Notre Dame was usc. Leinhart was QB, Bush was RB and they blew ND out.
Drove up from Chicago in the am and stopped at a really nice breakfast place off the highway at about the halfway point. The restaurant was mostly filled with usc fans. And my tickets were a few rows from the usc band. It actually felt like I was at a usc home game.
You must've stopped in Michigan City where all the away teams stay (or at least used to). ND home game weekends were always fun in my hometown. SC, Penn St, Miami, FSU... you name 'em and we've spit in their Egg McMuffins.
A friend of mine was head chef at Blue Chip in MC where a lot of visiting teams stay. He swears no shenanigans ever took place with the team's food, but it was always with a wink.
He did say Stanford was the rudest set of team guests he saw in his entire time there.

Interesting that away teams would stay at the casino now. That smells like trouble... if only we ever stayed at a friggin casino or a hotel with round the clock ladies.
Pre-Blue Chip, they used to stay at the Holidome right off 94. Got into a good scrap with PSU in '88 at the hotel bar which was a late night, dance joint, shag-a-thon. Rooms after bar closed were only $25 and those were the days when you swiped left and right in person.![]()
Oh to be young again...