The sleeping giant of the rivalry that is Notre Dame-USC is starting to wake up. That noise you hear isn’t a loud truck passing by. It’s actually the giant’s alarm clock going off. Giant might still be wiping the sleep off its eyes as it gets ready to roll out of bed but the covers are coming off and we’re all about to enter an era that this rivalry hasn’t seen in a sustained matter since the seventies.
Yes, there is a lot of hate and a lot of winning between Michigan and Ohio State as well as Alabama and Auburn. Army and Navy is a classic you can set your watch to, but all things considered, Notre Dame-USC is the best rivalry in college football when both are ticking.
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We’ll get into that more later this week as we have collaborated with Trojans Wire for loads of content that we’ll both be rolling out. However, with the regular season set to conclude Saturday in southern California, let’s get a very quick first glance at what the Irish have in store for them in the form of USC this weekend.