USC football team gets 'back to the drawing board' ahead of Notre Dame game. USC players and coaches spent two days apart, working through the fallout of an upset loss against Washington. On Sunday, the Trojans reconvene for meetings and practice as they attempt to move forward from potential crisis.
USC, 3- 2 overall and 1- 2 in the Pac- 1. Conference, travels to Notre Dame this week for the 8. Like I say every week," linebacker Su'a Cravens said after the 1. Washington on Thursday, "back to the drawing board and see what happens."Last season, USC blew out injury- depleted Notre Dame, 4. Coliseum. It will not be as easy at Notre Dame Stadium.
Fifteenth- ranked Notre Dame is 5- 1 after Saturday's 4. Navy. The Fighting Irish were regarded by some as possible College Football Playoff contenders before the season. But several key players, including quarterback Malik Zaire, running back Tarean Folston and defensive tackle Jarron Jones suffered season- ending injuries. Notre Dame bounced back from last week's 2. Clemson to win Saturday.
Quarterback De. Shone Kizer passed for 2. C. J. Prosise rushed for 1.
The senior running back finished the night with 143 yards on 19 carries, and he was responsible for two of Notre Dame’s touchdowns. As he busted Notre Dame toward.
First meeting: December 4, 1926 Notre Dame 13, USC 12: Latest meeting: October 17, 2015 Notre Dame 41, USC 31: Next meeting: November 26, 2016: Trophy: Jeweled Shillelagh.
Kizer told reporters afterward the USC game was "very big for our team.""It's a rivalry that's been around for longer than any of us have been here, so with that being said what we're going to prepare as if it's the last game of the season," he said, "because that's how every week is going to have to be for us to try to achieve the goals that we set before the season."Center of attention. With senior center Max Tuerk expected to be sidelined because of a knee injury, sophomore Toa Lobendahn could start in his place against the Fighting Irish. If he does, it will be his fourth starting position. The 6- foot- 3, 2. Lobendahn began last season at left guard. He moved to left tackle after Chad Wheeler suffered a season- ending knee injury against Utah. Lobendahn played tackle during spring practice and for part of training camp while Wheeler recovered.
He has started every game at right guard this season. With backup center Khaliel Rodgers absent from practice for a few days last week because of personal reasons, Lobendahn also practiced at center."Everyone asked me a week ago, 'Why is Toa playing center all week long?'" Coach Steve Sarkisian said Friday. Because I'm trying to plan for what might occur."Lobendahn said the switch to center during the Washington game was challenging."Maybe a little bit because I had to focus on the snap a little bit at the beginning," he said.
But once we got going and got a couple drives in, I was ready to go. We had some work in the bye week so I felt comfortable."gary. Twitter: @latimesklein.
Notre Dame–USC football rivalry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Notre Dame–USC football rivalry is an American college footballrivalry between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team of the University of Notre Dame and USC Trojans football team of the University of Southern California, customarily on the Saturday following Thanksgiving Day when the game is played in Los Angeles or on the third Saturday of October when the game is played in South Bend. Notre Dame and USC have traditionally been counted among the elite programs in college football, with each school having won 1. Heisman Trophies.[5] This football rivalry, which began in 1. Several times, the winner of this series has gone on to win or play for the college football national title.
Both schools combined have produced the most national titles (1. Heisman trophy winners (7 each),[5]All- Americans, College Football Hall of Famers and NFL Hall of Famers (1.
The rivals account for the highest numbers of players taken in the NFL Draft of any school; both are tied with 4. Also of note is that ND and USC games count for five of the ten most- watched college football games in television history. The teams play for the Jeweled Shillelagh, a trophy that goes home with the winning team each year.
Notre Dame leads the series 4. USC victory vacated due to NCAA penalty.[1. While Notre Dame and USC have defeated the other in landmark games enabling one of them to move onto a national title, the two teams have also played spoiler to each other several times. Notre Dame – #1 undefeated Notre Dame beat #2 undefeated USC in the Coliseum en route to the national title in 1. The Irish also spoiled Trojan title campaigns by giving them their first loss in the last game of the season in 1. They also tied #1 ranked USC in 1.
What TV channel, time is Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. USC Trojans game tonight? College football 2015. USC vs. Notre Dame Football 2015: Early Prediction, Betting Odds, Preview For Saturday's Game. Last season, USC blew out injury-depleted Notre Dame, 49-14, at the Coliseum. It will not be as easy at Notre Dame Stadium. Fifteenth-ranked Notre Dame is 5-1 after. Bush jumps away from Notre Dame's Chris Frome en route to the first touchdown of the game. (Alex Gallardo / Los Angeles Times) 'Just the Reggie Show, per.
Ohio State (who then beat USC in a 1 vs. Rose Bowl). The Irish tied the Trojans again in 1.
USC's 1. 0- 0- 1 season.[1. USC – Spoiled legitimate Irish title hopes in 1. Michigan already had been voted #1 by AP).[1. Each game came in the final week of the season.[1. USC also spoiled Irish campaigns in 1. Series history[edit]Origins[edit]Conversation between wives[edit]The origin of the series is quite often recounted as a "conversation between wives"[1. Notre Dame head coach Knute Rockne and USC athletic director Gywnn Wilson.
In fact, many sports writers often cite this popular story as the main reason the two schools decided to play one another. As the story goes, the rivalry began with USC looking for a national rival.[1. USC dispatched Wilson and his wife to Lincoln, Nebraska, where Notre Dame was playing Nebraska on Thanksgiving Day.[1. On that day (Nebraska 1.
Notre Dame 0) Knute Rockne resisted the idea of a home- and- home series with USC because of the travel involved, but Mrs. Wilson was able to persuade Mrs.
Rockne that a trip every two years to sunny Southern California was better than one to snowy, hostile Nebraska.[1. Mrs. Rockne spoke to her husband and on December 4, 1.
USC became an annual fixture on Notre Dame's schedule.[1. Another tale[edit]While the "wives story" remains the classic explanation for starting the series, college football historian Murray Sperber, who in researching his book on the early days of Notre Dame football, Shake Down the Thunder, uncovered a different explanation for the creation of the series that somewhat contradicts the story. Sperber documents that the series was created primarily for financial and political reasons,[1. Rockne's resistance to the series is misstated.[1. During the 1. 92. Big Ten (then called the Western Conference), sought to combat the commercialism that was steadily increasing in college athletics.
Part of the concern over commercialism stemmed from the large money payouts teams would receive by traveling long distances to play in Bowl Games.[1. Meanwhile, Notre Dame had difficulty scheduling local Western Conference opponents because of a ban placed on member schools from playing them.[1.
The Irish were initially forced to seek out opponents nationally to fill its schedule, often traveling far away to do so.[1. After Notre Dame started winning landmark games against college behemoths such as Yale and Army, Notre Dame started to grow in popularity and could command more money for games it scheduled.[1.
Notre Dame garnered interest from the Rose Bowl Committee to have Notre Dame come and play a Pacific Coast Conference (now Pac- 1. Coach Rockne and the Notre Dame administration realized how lucrative an annual trip to Los Angeles would be for the football program.[1. Notre Dame's West Coast alumni began lobbying Rockne to bring the team to the Rose Bowl as a season finale every year.[1. The Rose Bowl Committee favored this arrangement (at the time there was no tie in with the Big Ten); however, the Pacific Coast Conference had reservations.[1. Specifically, two members schools, Stanford and California refused to play Notre Dame "on account of [Notre Dame's] low scholastic standards."[1. Since Notre Dame was a Catholic school, its academics were considered inferior at the time.[1. USC's coach, Gus Henderson reached out to Rockne through correspondence stating that "USC would welcome the chance to play Notre Dame New Year's Day in Pasadena."[1.
While Rockne favored playing USC, Stanford, which won the Pacific Coast Conference title, had first choice and eventually realized that playing Notre Dame would be lucrative, and the two played in the 1. Rose Bowl.[1. 7]The series between Notre Dame and USC was created because of the still- existing desire for Notre Dame to travel to Los Angeles to please its alums and earn a large payout, as well as the still- standing invitation to play them from Coach Henderson.[1. While the creation of the series was contradictory to Notre Dame's efforts to follow the Big Ten in combating commercialism (the Big Ten had a 2. Bowl ban, which Notre Dame followed even longer), Rockne and other administrators justified the game since it was created as a home- and- home series, only to be played in Los Angeles every other year.[1. The creation of the series was also likely influenced by the hiring of Howard Jones, who knew Rockne from coaching against him at Iowa. To the priests who ran Notre Dame, playing USC in Los Angeles every other year was preferable to making further trips to the Rose Bowl game. Notre Dame would not play in another bowl game until the 1.
Cotton Bowl. Knute Rockne–Howard Jones connection[edit]Another factor in the creation of the series is the connection between both schools' coaches, Knute Rockne and Howard Jones. Following Notre Dame's 1.
Rockne was approached by USC to take over its football program.[1. Rockne would often entertain such advances and let the news slip out to the Notre Dame administration in order to get a raise and bolster his position internally and nationally.[1. While Rockne ultimately turned down the offer, he recommended that USC look at his friend Howard Jones, whom he knew from taking his Notre Dame teams to play Iowa.[1. Barry Le. Brock, author of The Trojan Ten, also confirms that Rockne lent the Trojans a helping hand in recommending that they consider hiring Iowa's coach Howard Jones, after USC fired "Gloomy Gus" Henderson.[1. The creation of the series was likely influenced by their friendship, and by Jones' desire to take USC to Notre Dame's elite level.[1. The early years: 1.
Notre Dame and USC played their first game in 1. Irish. Rockne was quoted as saying it was the greatest game he ever saw.[1. The following year, Notre Dame and USC would play a memorable game at Soldier Field in Chicago, a slim 7–6 Irish victory. An estimated 1. 20,0.
NCAA history.[1. 9] USC's first win in the series also came during the same year they won their first national title in 1. From 1. 92. 8–1. USC and Notre Dame combined to win the national title five straight years, with USC winning in 1. Notre Dame winning in 1. During this period, there was some talk of canceling the series, due to the long amount of travel time it took by train from South Bend to Los Angeles.[1.
Rockne argued for the series against the Notre Dame faculty board and its chair, Father Mulcaire, countering that "he saw the day coming when most college teams will be going by air exclusively."[1. Notable Games: 1.
Notre Dame 1. 3, USC 1. This game played at Soldier field has the second largest verified attendance in the history of NCAA football at 1.
Notre Dame 2. 7, USC 0 Notre Dame won its second consecutive national championship (3rd overall)[4] and 1. Knute Rockne.[2. 0] Rockne himself rated the 1. USC 1. 6, Notre Dame 1. More than 3. 00,0.
Trojans home from this thrilling victory in South Bend — a victory clinched by what sportswriter Maxwell Stiles called "Johnny Baker's 1. BIG points."[1. 6] After trailing 1.
USC won the game with a Johnny Baker 3. The win snapped Notre Dame's 2.
Trojans' first win in South Bend.[2. Called ".. the biggest upset since Mrs.
O'Leary's cow knocked over that lantern" by El Rodeo, USC's student yearbook, it clinched USC's second national title.[1. Sports historians cite this come- from- behind victory with Jones as coach that prompted the school from the West to catapult into the same elite circle with ND.[1. USC 1. 3, Notre Dame 0 USC shut out Notre Dame on its way to a second consecutive consensus national title, matching Notre Dame's feat in 1. The 1. 94. 0s were good for the Irish, which earned national titles in 1. Meanwhile, USC was fielding competitive teams, but none of title caliber.[4] Still, this era provided some memorable games, with USC playing spoiler to the Irish in 1. Notable Games: 1.
USC 1. 3, Notre Dame 0 Played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Notre Dame was undefeated and ranked #1 in the nation.[2. USC was ranked 8th with a 7–2 record.[2. Notre Dame fell to a #5 ranking the following week, but were still named national champions by the Dickinson System.[4]1. Notre Dame 3. 8, USC 7 1. Coliseum,[1. 9] to see 7–0–1 Rose Bowl- bound USC lose to 8–0 Notre Dame 3.