USC Postgame

[ThePiombino]

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Same here, bro.

 

[Bluto]

Not to be that guy, but 2014

Thanks guy! Lol

 

[notredomer23]

USC is way better than 6-6.

10-2 talent with a 4-8 coach

 

[Huntr]

I can't believe how badly Gray was getting abused, only to come up with such a huge game-saving play. He was getting roasted, but made the play when it mattered most.

 

[NDShark]

Btw Ohio State has beaten Penn State and who else? And Penn State has beaten who?

 

[stlnd01]

10-2 talent with a 4-8 coach

Their passing game was quite good. That QB will be a problem next year. And they stuffed our running game a lot of the time, except when they didn't. But also, yeah, they don't win the tough games and at some point that's on the coaches.

 

[MacIrish75]

I'm sorry, but no. You can't lose 6 games and get credit for being better than 6-6. If Thomas doesn't fumble and Jeter's head wasn't up his ass, this was over at half time.

Idk if that’s a good argument. This is a really talented USC team. All the metrics outside of their record show it. They just struggle to finish…as evidenced tonight.

This was a good win. I’d put this 6-6 SC up against a lot of other teams around the country. Maiava is gonna be a problem for two more years.

 

[CoachB]

Btw Ohio State has beaten Penn State and who else? And Penn State has beaten who?

OSU has beaten PSU and IU. IU and PSU have beaten nobody any good. I think PSU's best win was...Illinois?

 

[T-Boone]

It was so good to see X get that pick six. For all his interceptions I am pretty certain that was his first pick 6. I've got to put him at number 1 for our best DB over the last 10 years. I'd go: Watts, Love, Hamilton, Morrison, Gilman top 5.

 

[Bluto]

Their passing game was quite good. That QB will be a problem next year. And they stuffed our running game a lot of the time, except when they didn't. But also, yeah, they don't win the tough games and at some point that's on the coaches.

I wouldn’t say the passing game was “good”. It was mostly chuck the ball up to the big wide receiver in 1 on 1 on the outside and see if they can come down with it. No real timing or rhythm and it eventually bit them in the ass.

 

[Me2SouthBend]

This just in. This team is good. Go Irish!

 

[MacIrish75]

My first three biggest takeaways:

1) Pay Joe Rudolph whatever he wants. This OL unit is absolutely demolishing people the last half of the year—including a solid USC defense.

2) My Man Mitch needs to get his head right and get healthy mentally and physically. He’s got three weeks. Rendell had one average and one fantastic punt tonight. That was better.

3) Mike Brown can walk his ass home.

 

[stlnd01]

OSU has beaten PSU and IU. IU and PSU have beaten nobody any good. I think PSU's best win was...Illinois?

Penn State and IU scare me zero but I wouldn't want to play Ohio State in the first round if we can avoid it. (And yes 10-2 Ohio State will make the playoff at-large as a 9-12 seed. Because every one of us and the committee would pick them to beat most of the other options.)

 

[LOVEMYIRISH]

Btw Ohio State has beaten Penn State and who else? And Penn State has beaten who?

tOSU beat themselves... in many ways

 

[Redbar]

Love is an absolute beast! Price has given Lincoln Riley nightmares the last couple of years too! But X, man, he has been legendary! Single handedly kept Caleb Williams from a second heisman last year and just battles back from the injury tent to take it back 100 and make eye contact with their whole sideline while he did it. That gets you on my all time favorites list!

 

[stlnd01]

I wouldn’t say the passing game was “good”. It was mostly chuck the ball up to the big wide receiver in 1 on 1 on the outside and see if they can come down with it. No real timing or rhythm and it eventually bit them in the ass.

I guess but the thing with passing is that unless/until you fuck up, you only have to hit on one out of three or four plays. There were several plays were we could not have gotten in on the QB any faster, or covered any better, and they still completed the pass for 20 or so yards.

 

[rtrn2glory]

I think we need 4 wins for the Natty?

 

[notredomer23]

Don’t underestimate how difficult it is to go from South Bend to NYC to South Bend to LA in a week. Everyone responds to that level of travel differently no matter how many precautions the staff can take.

 

[tussin]

The Colosseum was literally empty. USC is a dead program. Why would any recruit ever go there, especially when other B1G programs sell out 100k every week. Kind of sad to see from a program that used to seem unbeatable.

 

[IrishSpartan]

Very ugly box score but fuck em

 

[NDPhilly]

FWIW, the SP+ and FPI have USC as a top 25 team. Essentially are a 9-3 caliber team that can’t close / doesn’t always show up.

 

[FU BK]

Don’t underestimate how difficult it is to go from South Bend to NYC to South Bend to LA in a week. Everyone responds to that level of travel differently no matter how many precautions the staff can take.

Exactly why only 2 or 3 teams in the big 10 have traveled more than 2 time zones and won

 

[FU BK]

FWIW, the SP+ and FPI have USC as a top 25 team. Essentially are a 9-3 caliber team that can’t close / doesn’t always show up.

Lincoln Riley is on par with Ryan "Michigan's bitch" Day and Matt "unemployed" Eberflus

 

[DomerInHappyValley]

So right before the playoffs kick we had an ugly win.
I'll take it.
Going to have to win ugly at least once to win it all.
I'd rather to be tested now.

 

[BleedingGold]

Busy watching other games, but I will add a part of me is happy we struggled, it will remind them to never take a play off. It exposes some defensive issues we can spend the next 3 weeks working on.

 

[T-Boone]

Busy watching other games, but I will add a part of me is happy we struggled, it will remind them to never take a play off. It exposes some defensive issues we can spend the next 3 weeks working on.

Yeah, we need Cross back in full fitness. I assume he did not play.

 

[irishff1014]

Watts running that last pick back and talking shit to SCs sideline all the way was beautiful!

 

[choo choo]

1. Watching all of the upsets today, it's crazy how this team rebounded from the NIU loss to win ten straight. Most of them in very convincing fashion.

2. Today was the first day where you could feel the absence of BenMo.

3. Love was having maybe the best game I have ever seen from an ND RB in terms of "WOW" plays before he got hurt. Prayers up it's nothing serious because he's a game changer.

4. Credit Christian Gray who got left on an island all game and thrown at repeatedly for battling back and making a game clinching play with an insane one-handed interception and 90+ yard return.

5. We still don't have a real passing game and that's eventually going to cost us in the playoffs. We can't always be ahead of the sticks. The difference between how USC is able to attack vertically in their passing game and what we do is just alarming.

6. I never want to see us kick a field goal ever again.

I don't think we will kick another field goal. I'm just concerned we'll try to.

 

[GATTACA!]

 

[Huntr]

Brice just said ND outscored the opposition 125-8 in the middle 8 this year.