USC Report Card for Notre Dame: Caleb Williams gets an F

This report card won’t deal with the USC defense, since it was surprisingly peripheral to the outcome against Notre Dame.

We never thought we would do this. We never thought this could possibly happen. We never thought we would be in this position. Yet, here we are.

We are in a spot where we have to give Caleb Williams the worst possible grade in our USC report card.

Caleb Williams, the 2022 Heisman Trophy winner who came back this season with big expectations and dreams under head coach Lincoln Riley, started this season brilliantly. He was awesome in the first three quarters against Colorado as well. However, in the last quarter of the Colorado game and in the eight quarters since then, he and the USC offense have steadily collapsed.

This is a very weird USC report card, folks. The defense was almost entirely irrelevant to the outcome of this game, a plot twist no one expected. Our grades will focus on the offense, and the players who all failed to do their jobs at great cost to the Trojans: