Notre Dame closed their 2022 regular season with a 38-27 loss at No. 6 USC and will finish the year with fewer than 10 wins for the first time since 2016 (postseason included). So what went wrong for Notre Dame in a game that we largely thought they matched up very well with USC going into?
A slow start against the wrong kind of team to have one against, being run over instead of doing the stomping and the ultra important turnover battle for this one were just a few of the reasons for the loss. Here is our look inside the box score at the numbers that tell the story in Saturday night’s regular season finale.