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Notre Dame vs USF Prediction, Game Preview

Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs USF Bulls prediction and game preview.

Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs USF Bulls prediction and game preview.

Notre Dame vs USF Broadcast

Date: Saturday, September 19
Game Time: 2:30 ET
Venue: Notre Dame Stadium, South Bend, IN
Network: USA

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Notre Dame (1-0) vs USF (1-0) Game Preview

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Why USF Will Win

Can the running game possibly keep this up?

New head coach Jeff Scott stepped in, and the Bull ground attack instantly started to work, running for 302 yards and two scores in the 27-6 win over The Citadel with big gash after big gash.

USF was 4-0 last season when running for 200 yards or more, and as a program has won 27 straight when coming up with 205 yards or more.

Notre Dame isn’t The Citadel, but the offensive line was able to get on the move last week with a good tempo, the running backs ripped off big run after big run, and it has a shot to keep the Irish on their heels if they can be as sharp as they were to open things up. However …

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Why Notre Dame Will Win

The Notre Dame defensive front that stuffed Duke for 73 rushing yards – allowing fewer than three yards per carry – has the linebacking corps to keep the big runs to a minimum.

Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah was a dominant force against the Blue Devils, and while star safety Kyle Hamilton is banged up with an ankle injury, this is still a group that’s not going to get toughed like The Citadel was.

Even with all of the success against an FCS team, the Bulls had a hard time putting the game away. The passing game won’t be able to stretch the field on the Notre Dame secondary, and scoring points will be like pulling teeth to close out drives.

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What’s Going To Happen

USF will be okay, but the Irish will be sharper.

The Bull offense will come up with a few of the big runs that Duke wasn’t able to, but it won’t be enough as Ian Book and the Notre Dame attack gets out to a better start than it did last week. USF will have to throw in the second half, and it won’t work.

Notre Dame vs USF Prediction, Line

Notre Dame 38, USF 10
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USF Does Not Have Financial Guarantee for Games at Notre Dame

Simply getting invited to play a high-profile school at its stadium is an honor for Group of Five programs.

Simply getting invited to play a high-profile school at its stadium is an honor for Group of Five programs. In addition to getting greater exposure, you get a nice paycheck just for showing up. Those incentives make it easier to absorb a likely loss, which probably will be a big one. However, USF might not get that luxury for playing Notre Dame over the next three years.

According to the series contract, obtained by the Tampa Bay Times after a public-records request, there is no financial guarantee for the Bulls. In fact, if this year’s contest, scheduled for Sept. 19 in South Bend, doesn’t get played, the remaining two games in this series will not be scheduled. If it goes on as scheduled, those games must have dates by Aug. 1, 2021. And to no one’s surprise, the cancelation provisions include the phrase “epidemic or pandemic”.

Despite this unusual arrangement, USF won’t be completely deprived of money for playing the Irish. It can purchase 300 tickets for this season’s game if it so chooses. And with the teams keeping their respective home ticket revenue, the Bulls should benefit nicely when this series has its lone game in Tampa.

Hey, in the times we’re living in, you can’t afford to be picky.

Notre Dame Football: The maddest I’ve ever left Notre Dame Stadium

With reports out that Notre Dame will be squaring off with South Florida on September 19, flashbacks immediately came to me from the epic disaster that was that Saturday afternoon.

I’m happy to say I’ve been able to spend countless hours in ballparks, arenas and stadiums across this entire country.  I’ve seen my teams pull upsets, clinch championships and suffer plenty of heartbreaking and blowout defeats.

I’ve never been as mad leaving a game in my life as I was on September 3, 2011, though.

With reports out that Notre Dame will be squaring off with South Florida on September 19, flashbacks immediately came to me from the epic disaster that was that Saturday afternoon.

After a 1-3 and 4-5 start in 2010, Notre Dame won their final three regular season games, including their first win over USC in nearly a decade, before obliterating Miami (FL) in the Sun Bowl.

The improvement the team made that year was clear and the hype began to follow the Irish a bit as the entered the season ranked 16th overall in the nation.

To open that season South Florida came to town and pretty much everything that could wrong, went wrong for Notre Dame that day.

As Dayne Crist was about to put an exclamation point on the opening drive with a touchdown, Jonas Gray fumbled and saw Kayvon Webster run it back 96 yards for a South Florida touchdown.

Early in the second quarter the Irish were again about to get on the scoreboard when a Crist pass deflected off of the hands of TJ Jones and was intercepted in the end zone for a Bulls touchback.

Theo Riddick would get in on the action before halftime as he muffed a punt that was recovered by USF and led to a Bulls field goal and their eventual 16-0 halftime lead.

Rains and thunderstorms would come and Notre Dame would finally wake up a bit behind Tommy Rees who threw for nearly 300 yards off the bench, but five turnovers did the Domers in that afternoon and my blood still boils thinking about how dumb that loss was.

Notre Dame out-gained USF that day 508-254.  For the most part they dominated.

Unfortunately that included in the turnover department where the Irish finished with five to USF’s zero.

It was a dumb loss, maddening and quickly deflated the high hopes of 2011 while the lightning delays only made matters worse.

I’ve never walked out of a stadium so mad about what I had just watched in my life.  I’m glad life has changed my perspective on sports a bit since.

A week later things would only get worse as the Irish would gift Michigan a game that still makes no sense.

With Duke and South Florida to start the season this year, Notre Dame fans will see those names and remember a few awful memories from September home games in somewhat recent seasons.

Let’s hope that this time USF’s new head coach Jeff Scott is the one turning purple on the sideline, and not Brian Kelly.

If for some god-forsaken reason you’d like to re-live that 2011 contest you can do so here, courtesy of “The Vault: ND on NBC”.

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