USC - Notre Dame
 

I'm expecting USC to go in to South Bend and stomp on the Irish.

Me too! I can't believe I'm going to miss part or all of the game traveling home, but I'm hoping to at least hear a recap of a USC dominant win on here tomorrow (assuming internet works when I get home.)

I feel dirty saying this, but I really hope Notre Dame wins.

USC...get real.

No doubt in my mind---Trojans.

This ESPN piece gives a nice quick breakdown of five reasons why each team should win:
espn ND vs USC

espn quote :Leinart has thrown for 1,646 yards, 12 touchdowns, three interceptions and is completing 65 percent of his passes; Quinn has thrown for 1,621 yards, 13 touchdowns and three interceptions and is completing 65 percent of his passes.

Dola. And I'm gonna love every bit of it.

That's interesting when you consider that Quinn has played MUCH better defenses so far.

I'm not sure I like where you are going with this comment......

USC has been half-assing it for a few weeks now. I say it catches up with them and Noter Dame pulls of the upset.

USC 59-28, continuing the 31 point spread and dropping ND to 0-5 all time vs a #1 USC team.

Too much talk about how Notre Dame will spring the upset. They'll come out with fire, like last year's Orange Bowl.

A bit strange for me to be commenting on something like this given the way USC dismantled OU in the Orange Bowl, but I disagree with this statement. USC didn't come out on fire in the Orange Bowl. Their first drive stalled relatively quickly, and OU drove ninety something yards for a touchdown. OU then stopped USC again. It wasn't until the end of the first quarter/start of the 2nd after OU had fumbled the ball a couple of times that USC really started to turn it on.

I realize it's nitpicking a little bit, and normally I don't like to bring up bad memories as an OU fan. :)

Nevertheless, the reason I do is that USC has been a slow starter quite a bit lately, even going back to last year. Notre Dame might be talented enough to knock of USC if they do that again in this game.

Doh. That's what I get for watching two things at once. I just kept flipping back and forth and seeing the score change.

Well, judging by the score, it'd be easy to assume. :D

I think that's what is the most painful part of that game for me. I was really nervous going in. Then when OU started so well, I took a big sigh of relief and stopped over here to check out what people were saying. Senator, I think it was, said something to the effect of "Here comes a blowout."

Then OU just began to fall apart, and USC could do no wrong. It's not necessarily OU getting destroyed that will linger with me, I think. It's that they started so well, got my stinking optimism back up, then got destroyed.

Incidentally, I think USC wins this game. But I don't think it's a blowout. USC is just the more talented team. I think Notre Dame comes out with a lot of emotion and makes it a good game, but the Trojans pull it out in a relatively high scoring game. I'll say 42-34.

Is there a way both of them can lose?