Apparently the fewest people ever watched SC beat Notre Dame this past Saturday. Now, I know that the golden domers are having a rough season but NBC seems to be okay with it. How on earth do people complain that LCS games get 2.8′s in primetime on cable when NBC trots out 4 hours of [...]
Posted in Notre Dame, USC | No Comments »Apparently Pat Haden (a Trustee at USC by the way) got his envelope full of hundreds from ND before the game but Tom Hammond was not so lucky. You think calling the games of floundering Notre Dame is getting to NBC’s Tom Hammond? During Saturday’s telecast of Notre Dame’s 38-0 loss to Southern California, the [...]
Posted in Notre Dame, USC | 2 Comments »Hey Urban Poet: Chuck Weis is listed at around 350lbs so I think that is right. Also, the “Dwarf from Shreveport” was left on the sideline all day so that also helped out a lot. Oh and there are no Division-I offensive players playing currently for Notre Dame. So, Ohio State dominated Michigan St for [...]
Posted in Arizona State, Cal, LSU, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon, USC | No Comments »2007 – USC 38, Notre Dame 0 After doing its best impression of the Marshall Thundering Herd, USC handed Notre Dame its worst loss in the rivalry, 8th worst loss in the history of the program, and the worst home loss since the Irish were topped by Boomer Sooner in 1956. Notre Dame attributed the [...]
Posted in Coaches, Marshall, Notre Dame, USC | No Comments »Now that SC has made it to Indiana, they can talk about the plane flight that for some was the worst they had ever experienced. Apparently the South Bend area had thunder and lightning along with an inch of hail so I am sure that the double landing was not a lot of fun. Let [...]
Posted in Notre Dame, USC | No Comments »This weekend, the Trojans and Irish play for the 79th time. While this game is somewhat tarnished, the Urban Poet would like to take this time to remind the readers of some of the historic games. 1927 – Notre Dame 7, USC 6. Back then they played the games at Soldier Field and about 120,000 [...]
Posted in Notre Dame, USC | 2 Comments »As always, big thanks to Awful Announcing for this week’s announcer schedule for college football. Highlights: Thursday night: South Florida at Rutgers (ESPN: Fowler/Flutie/James). South Florida’s last test on the road. Saturday (Noon Eastern): Nothing worth watching. Saturday (3:30pm Eastern): Florida at Kentucky (CBS: Lundquist/Danielson, Gameday in Lexington) and SC at ND—2 years ago a [...]
Posted in Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, LSU, Michigan, Notre Dame, Rutgers, South Florida, USC | No Comments »Jimmy Clausen, suffering behind the ND OL (which just lost another starter), gets a week off as Evan Sharpley is deemed the healthiest alternative for Notre Dame against USC on Saturday. Here’s hoping that Keith Rivers, Lawrence Jackson and Sedrick Ellis knock them both silly … and that nobody destroys their knee and their career [...]
Posted in Notre Dame, USC | No Comments »You’ve probably heard some talking heads and journalists calling Stanford-USC the biggest upset in the sport’s history. Apparently just comparing point spreads is the most efficient way to determine that, but in case you’re one of those rare college football fans who consider more than Vegas odds, here are a few fun factoids: in 2004 [...]
Posted in Appalachian State, Coaches, Michigan, Notre Dame, UCLA, USC | 1 Comment »From the “thinking about the misfortune of others helps us feel better about our own” department comes today’s discussion question: When was the last time a so-called power had a season as awful* as Notre Dame’s currently having? (Their victory over UCLA notwithstanding.) One proposal might be USC’s 3-8 in 1991, which included losing a [...]
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