with impressive victories against oregon and cal at home, USC is on a mission to destroy their remaining opponents. how good are notre dame's chances of coming into the coliseum and beating USC?
no stupid emotional answers please. just give me some good football analysis...
2006-11-20 08:04:00 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football (American)
USC.
Oddly enough, USC's cross town rival UCLA exposed some real weakness in Notre Dame. They got to Quinn early and often with a less than stellar pass rush. UCLA held tough on third down and stuffed their momentum with critical third down stops.
I'm not sold on Darius Walker. He looks incredible against the Academy teams, Tony's House of Diplomas, prison teams, and the other bottom feeders on their schedule. But, UCLA bottled him up completely.
Cowan exposed their secondary as suspect. In his, what, first or second start carved them up in the first half.
Both teams make adjustments well. I think USC wins the turnover battle, stops the run, and clips Notre Dame 24-20.
2006-11-20 08:18:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well before the Oregon game the DB's were still making the mistakes young players make. That would have been good for Notre Dame. Things have changed though. Now true freshmen Taylor Mays and sophmore Kevin Ellison are really coming on along. Mays has had back to back outstanding games with sensational picks. Terrell Thomas is turning into a shutdown corner. I think the Notre Dame team is going to find this defense much different than last years. All the linebackers with so much talent are now experienced. The 3-4 defensive scheme has been adapted to where it is mixed in with 4-3 and works very well.
I'm focusing on defense cause that is where I think USC holds a huge edge, plain and simple USC defense is much better and should be enough to win the game for USC. The offenses are pretty close ND has a more experienced QB but USC's oline is significantly better so call it a draw on offense.
2006-11-20 08:13:08 · answer #2 · answered by Bruce Tzu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good match up but USC is going to beat Notre Dame 47-24
2016-05-22 00:48:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
USC may have home-field advantage, but if you've watched them this year they have had a hard time beating teams they should have pounded into the turf. They are not the same USC they have been in over the past decade, and I think the Fighting Irish have a very fighting chance of beating them. They have only lost one game this year to Michigan, and Brady Quinn was not in his usual rhythm that day. Since then, Quinn has gotten himself back on track and Notre Dame's defense has made several adjustments resulting in an overall improvement. I'm not saying Notre Dame IS going to win, but they're going to give USC a serious run for their money...
2006-11-20 08:14:02 · answer #4 · answered by sarge927 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Notre Dame is going to win this they have to play well. Their defence has to show up and play for all 60 minutes, and the offence needs to be clicking. If the defence doesn't show up then it will be a shoot-out. USC defence has not surprised me. Notre Dame has the offence to make SC's defense look like a pee-wee team. Notre Dame's defence has shown that they can be a good unit when they play well, and work together as a team. I believe Notre Dame is the better team but that defence is suspect. Notre Dame the victor.
2006-11-20 08:12:28 · answer #5 · answered by theamericandream1776 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is obviously not a professional football fan opinion, i know nothing about stats, players, anything technical that has to do with the game but my prediction for the game is USC 35 - Notre dame 2 (yes 2, what is that a "safety point"? as cal demostrated on saturday's game) haha...anyways i think that notre dame and brady quinn are so over-rated.... there is no chance in hell that the drunk farting irish will come into the colliseum and beat USC..
2006-11-20 10:16:21 · answer #6 · answered by donut 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Notre Dame has no chance, playing at USC in front of 92,000.
USC has momentum, and if high-scoring Cal can only score 9 pts against their defense, Notre Dame can't score more than 17.
USC by 20.
2006-11-20 08:15:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
how does notre dame want it more than SC? this is USC's shot to go to the title game! the trojans are going to take this one to the house big...Notre Dame has a weak defense and their secondary will get burned by John David Booty, Smith and Jarrett.
this wont be as close as last years game, USC will be ready and fired up at home. Not too mention their fast and powerful linebackers will be keeping the pressure on Quinn all game. I will be at the game...cant wait! USC will win this game by 14 or more points...FIGHT ON!
2006-11-20 15:33:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
USC and Notre Dame have really good teams. It will come down to this whoever can create turnovers you cant win a game like this is you throw interceptions and lose fumbles. I think Notre Dame will win because they can establish this feature over USC.
By the way this is coming from a Husker fan
GO BIG RED
2006-11-20 08:10:45 · answer #9 · answered by Nebraska Fan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No doubt that USC has more talent, but Notre Dame has a senior QB in Quinn, and more experienced talent than USC has.
I think that in the big game, ND wins.
2006-11-20 08:07:58 · answer #10 · answered by Jason B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋