Alex Grinch is one of the worst defensive coordinators in the country. Gerad Parker is one of the worst offensive coordinators in the country. Very simply: If they both coach equally poorly (or equally well) and basically fight to a draw in this matchup of lightweights, which team will win the USC-Notre Dame game?
Fighting Irish Wire’s Nick Shepkowski told us the following:
“Woof. The best unit going into the game is USC’s offense so I suppose I have to go with that.”
That’s one vote for USC if Grinch-Parker is a stalemate.
We also think USC wins if Grinch-Parker is a tie. Notre Dame has to cleanly win Grinch-Parker. If it doesn’t, USC has a quarterback who is pretty good at rescuing his team, and who is a lot better than Sam Hartman. Parker needs to have that one great game, or Grinch needs to be extra bad (or both), for this game to unfold in a way which gets Notre Dame the win.
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