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excellent breakdown.

It will be a tough win no doubt, but I will be quite content when we knock USC out of the national title game. Charlie's got some tricks up his sleeve.
suave andrew | Email | Homepage | 11.24.06 - 3:40 pm | #

Ten Unscientific Reasons Why Notre Dame is going to Pound USC:

1. It’s an AWAY game stupid.

2. Reggie Bush left the program (graduated?) so he can’t perform the “Bush-Push”. Say…. whatever happened to the NCAA house-renting investigation??

3. The USC coach looks like a La-La Land Poodle. Ours looks like an over-weight, mean, Bull Dog.

4. Our seniors are tired of getting beat and have absolutely nothing to lose but pride.

5. The USC cheerleaders are probably the prettiest in college football (true statement).

6. Bob Davie predicts USC to win.

7. Keith Jackson Knows USC is going to win and questions why the Irish are even coming (Oh Nellie and Fummmmmmmmmmble).

8. Bo S. is in heaven praying for us.

9. O.J. is writing a book “If I were playing, how USC would beat ND”.

10. The USC band plays the most annoying “ditty song” between plays.
philB | Email | Homepage | 11.24.06 - 3:47 pm | #

The grass is the same height for both teams. No one else has blamed an injury on the turf at Notre Dame Stadium. Mark May said something like the grass isn't going to be three feet high in L.A. this weekend. One thing is for sure: May will still be a bloody imbecile this weekend.

Coach Weis summed it up best when someone from the press corps asked the 6,213th inane question of the year a few days ago...

Q. One of their players claim that the grass here caused an injury to him. Do you think too much was taken out of it? Are you thinking about the grass height for this game?

COACH WEIS: This is the Midwest, okay? In the Midwest, grass doesn't grow as high as it does in the South or in warm?weather climates. Therefore, if you cut the grass low early in the year, usually you have no grass left at the end of the year.

I mean, it's pretty simple ?? a pretty simple concept if you think about it. If we go cut the grass low early in the year, it's not going to grow as much, then you're going to be playing on dirt. Because we're not going to field turf here, last I checked, we're going to stay on natural grass, was the grass higher than it will be in a lot of places? Yes. Both teams played on the grass. What difference does it make what field you play on? You play on a field, you play on a field.
Anonymous | Email | Homepage | 11.24.06 - 3:47 pm | #

Slightly OT, but...

A few minutes ago during the LSU-YourKansas game, CBS did a graphic of the non-conference resumes of the potential BCS title game contenders.

For ND, the 4 games they selected to highlight (since ND is not in a conference) were:

vs Michigan
vs UNC
vs Army
@ USC

Perhaps (beyond the obvious two games vs Top 25 opponents) it's just a random selection of their two best and two worst opponents, but isn't the purpose of a resume to highlight your strengths? So why not pick another ACC opponent (@ Ga Tech) and another srevice academy (@ Navy)?

Or maybe CBS just doesn't like the thought of Irish in a BCS title game they're not broadcasting :-)
c-stone | Email | Homepage | 11.24.06 - 5:07 pm | #

guys, relax about the ND haters. Griping about it won't fix anything. All we can do is cheer for our boys to win and it'll shut up the haters.
suave andrew | Email | Homepage | 11.24.06 - 5:24 pm | #

LSU now up 12 on arkansas. since the tigers have the #1 D im figuring theyll win that game.

its too bad LSU had to go @tennessee, @auburn, @florida and @arkansas or else theyd probably be playing OSU for the title. how is that even possible? what terrible luck for LSU to have to play the four top teams in the best conference in america all on the road. they are really talented, their schedule is just ridiculous. ohio state would probably lose two games through that gauntlet as well.
schultz | Email | Homepage | 11.24.06 - 5:39 pm | #

wrong blog schultz
suave andrew | Email | Homepage | 11.24.06 - 5:56 pm | #

so for d and kickoff coverage. An ark 80 yd run for a td, a lsu return for a TD, and ark's return to lsu's 37 in less than half a minute?
canuck | Email | Homepage | 11.24.06 - 5:58 pm | #

4 and out on Ark's 27 should do it. A thorough thumping of USC could still have an extra dividend.
canuck | Email | Homepage | 11.24.06 - 6:09 pm | #

add me to the list of people thoroughly unimpressed by both teams in todays game. arkansas cant get past the line of scrimmage without getting a playcall from a 3rd grader with ADD, and LSU, the "best open field tackling team in the nation" made PU's zach logan look like dick butkus.

the SEC's top 3 OOC wins (per CBS, their mouthpiece) were tennessee vs cal (legitimate, big win), auburn vs wash st (thats a big win? 6-6?), and LSU vs AZ (6-5 team). what a weaksauce out of conference resume. those are your three marquee wins? cal and 2 bottom feeders from a self-admitted weak PAC-10?

just because SEC teams are fast and athletic does not make them good football teams. as someone previously said, starting with the premise that every team is great, then playing OOC creampuffs and knocking eachother around does not somehow prove your original premise. are any of the talking heads questioning the validity of the SEC? nope. they're "footballs toughest conference". someone explain to me why. i even go to an SEC school and live in the south, so its not regional bias. i am just completely unimpressed.
mike | Email | Homepage | 11.24.06 - 6:32 pm | #

Texas took one on the chin as well, and now may not even play in the Big 12 Champeenship Game. Yet Stewart Mandel will STILL figure out a way to rank Tejas ahead of us.

Arkansas isn't a football team--it's a solo act with a backup band. As annoyed as I get when announcers say "go ahead and give him next year's Heisman", McFadden SHOULD just be given the SEC Championship Trophy to keep in his house, with only his name on it, should Arkansas beat Florida. Without him, Arkansas is a 4-7 team. They certainly showed they couldn't pass, even with a 12 year old PS2 playbook.
Nate | Email | Homepage | 11.24.06 - 6:42 pm | #

12 year old's PS2 playbook, I mean.
Nate | Email | Homepage | 11.24.06 - 6:43 pm | #

Reed is a whiner and a bitcher he has to point at another. An old priest told me point your finger in blame and three fingers point back at yourself. Football is an inherintly dangerous sport and you play it at your own risk. (Sorry your not NFL quality Reed.) Moron media and USC Ok the grass is pur5posefully too long to slow you speedsters down. By George, Gee whiz ND is a slow team not known for speed. Why would we slow our slow pokes down more? On that yellow brick road to LA search for a brain, this ain't LA Toto nor Kansas.

Sir John
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Sir John | Email | Homepage | 11.24.06 - 7:36 pm | #

philB,

The "pumped" (yip-yip) poodle has a lot faster mutts than the smarter, meaner bulldog. Edge: yippie poodle.

The physical mismatch won't last forever. Maybe 2008. CW to Poodle (burning stare): "Tick-tock tick-tock."

Domers to Trojans (smiling): "Tiiii-me is on our side . . . yes it is."
ThE LoSt BoY | Email | Homepage | 11.24.06 - 8:07 pm | #

The reason the media pumped up the grass length so much was that the game was the same year that Belichick deliberately grew the grass long in NE for Indy (I believe it was for the Colts) while Weis was still there. The pundits immediately made the connection that Weis learned the trick of slowing down a powerful offense by growing longer grass. Charlie's explaination makes sense, but it is an awful coincidence. It's still a bunch of whining by U$C and the media though. It's not like it looked like it slowed Bush down any during the game.

As for McFadden, he is one hell of an amazing player. THat's the first Arkansas game I've seen since the U$C game at the beginning of the year, and it's clear that he wasn't at 100% in that game.
JohnWA | Email | Homepage | 11.24.06 - 8:53 pm | #

I see we just got the annual insane rant of Sir John.
half-time | Email | Homepage | 11.24.06 - 9:27 pm | #

Seriously though, Payola Pete's looking, and Miami has a fresh vacancy. Anyone else see a match made in heaven?
indy | Email | Homepage | 11.24.06 - 10:42 pm | #

I don't know about anyone else, but as a Colts fan I was sick of all our complaining about the turf conditions in NE during our playoff losses, and if ND wants to grow the grass long, or put in gold astroturf, that's why it's called home field advantage. At least it's not a parquet floor you whiners. Maybe they'd prefer we should emulate the Celtics and give their locker room a fresh coat of paint the night before the game. Cry me a river you dim witted cali half pro ponces. Before you complain about the length of the grass, why don't you learn to follow the actual effing rules of football?

http://www.fanblogs.com/usc/005930.php
indy | Email | Homepage | 11.24.06 - 11:08 pm | #

Nice stats, et al, but they only carry secondary importance in this game. Now is the time... the months of 'they look vulnerable' are over. USC plays its best game of the year versus Notre Dame. They always have, they always will. CW knows that. Our guys experienced it for years now. I know we can win, I just don't know how. Let me call it USC 41, Notre Dame 16 -- and I'm doing this hoping to gleefully be back here tomorrow night, supping on crow! Too many times I've cried in my beer over the 'heathens of the West.'

Go Irish
Bill H | Email | Homepage | 11.24.06 - 11:44 pm | #

Perhaps I'm imagining it, but I think playing the service academies has a kind of galvanizing effect on a team. It is true that they do not have the kind of raw athletic talent ND can field. But they play lights out. (let me say, a sign of something right in the world that these are the young men who will serve on the thin blue line) But as for football, this is exactly the position we will be in vis a vis USC and I think we'll see something special out of this team tomorrow night when the tables are turned. I don't know if we'll win. I do know our opponents are more athletic. I also know we will be ready to punch them right in the mouth at kickoff tomorrow, and we'll see if they are ready to play like the sun will not rise Sunday morning. If they are, I won't begrudge them a win. Let's hope there are few turnovers on either side and we can keep from getting beat bad on the deep ball, and that it's as great a game as last year, win or lose. And that we send all those pretty little cheerleaders everyone likes so much home with streaks in their makeup and tears on their faces.

GO IRISH
indy | Email | Homepage | 11.25.06 - 2:20 am | #

Bill H -

USC 41 - ND 16? Give me a break.
suave andrew | Email | Homepage | 11.25.06 - 6:52 am | #

Bill H -
You should lay off the sauce this early before game time.
philB | Email | Homepage | 11.25.06 - 8:23 am | #

Poor Boston College. They had to play another night game in the south against a now bowl eligible team.
Bill HS | Email | Homepage | 11.25.06 - 9:00 am | #

Can Bobby beat Steve?

Planet Arkansas is now properly aliegned out of the BCS picture.

After ND knocks USC out of orbit, the BCS brass, networks, advertisters, and hostile coaches will have to make an interesting decision.

I think the planets are coming together.

Hail Mary full of grace...................
philB | Email | Homepage | 11.25.06 - 10:01 am | #

Poor Boston College. They had to play another night game in the south against a now bowl eligible team.
Bill HS | Email | Homepage | 11.25.06 - 9:00 am | #

A night game, in the South, seems to not register with you. Whoever you are, you know very little about CFB, and inordinately less about Notre Dame football. Enjoy HBO, or Starz, or whatever you plan to be watching this evening. No need to change your viewing habits at this late date.

Go Irish
Bill H | Email | Homepage | 11.25.06 - 12:57 pm | #

I'm going to play contrarian (but not The Contrarian) to Bill H. I had a dream last night that the Irish came out on defense against USC in a manner that would make Tenacious D look like a barbershop quartet. Relentless pressure all day and night, enough so that even one-on-one, Booty won't have time to hit his receivers.

Irish 31 USC 14.
c-stone | Email | Homepage | 11.25.06 - 9:35 am | #

C-Stone -- I'm hoping that you hit it on the head. Like I said, I will gladly eat crow to see us blast one super-team, and not play the UCLA/UNC level of football we have this year.

I do have to admit that the Psych 101 ruse is always fun -- our fears strike at ....? Again, let's all hope that my prediction is wrong, and I'll gladly use light salt and heavy pepper on the avian dining.

Go Irish
Bill H | Email | Homepage | 11.25.06 - 1:03 pm | #

Planet Arkansas is now properly aliegned out of the BCS picture.

After ND knocks USC out of orbit, the BCS brass, networks, advertisters, and hostile coaches will have to make an interesting decision.

I think the planets are coming together.

philB | Email | Homepage | 11.25.06 - 10:01 am | #

PB - weren't you talking "sauce" a while back? Remove the syringes, get to the ER, drink down some charcoal, turn off the Hendrix, and ask for strong ant-biotics for your vascular surgery.

Go Irish
Bill H | Email | Homepage | 11.25.06 - 1:14 pm | #

Poodle this

Charlie is one cheeseburger away from... well probably a dozen for the morning...

PC 2
Cheeseburger 0

any questions

gotta love the poodle comments sheesh and you wonder why all the cheeseburger comments
TrojanHorse98 | Email | Homepage | 11.26.06 - 10:10 am | #

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