Notre Dame Opponent Preview: #20 USC Trojans

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🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In part three of the Notre Dame vs USC preview we take a deeper dive into the 2025 version of the Trojans.

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0:00.0	All right, Brian, and the final part of today's show here on the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought to you by Fandul.
0:22.5	We are talking the USC Trojans.
0:24.7	We are giving a big picture preview into the team traveling up to South Bend, Indiana, this Saturday night, October 18th to take on the 13th rank, Notre Dame, fighting Irish.
0:35.4	We're going to get into the matchup discussion tomorrow. And believe me, there are a lot of good matchups to pay attention to.
0:40.7	This is just a big picture overview for USC and what they've done so far this season leading
0:47.1	up to this point.
0:48.8	And when you start talking about USC, they've had a very, very interesting road to their 20th ranking.
0:58.3	They started the season unranked in the preseason. They jumped in after some blowout wins.
1:04.7	Their win over Michigan State was held in a pretty big light. Then they dropped out after their
1:09.2	road lost to Illinois.
1:14.6	And now they're back in after decimating Michigan at home in the Coliseum.
1:18.2	So this has been a very back and fourth season for the Trojans.
1:26.7	I think it was garbage that they fell out after losing the Illinois in the road.
1:45.5	Agreed. Like Illinois, now look, Illinois led most of that game. USC comes back because it's a four-quarter game, takes a late lead, and then Illinois goes down and scores a game-winning field goal, and then you drop them out as a road game. You drop them out. You know, that just felt to me like that reeked of you're still in your preseason bias. And I think that's been true for a lot. I think that's true for the,
1:49.1	how the rankings are currently. I think that's true for how teams have been put in and how
1:55.2	teams are treated. The only reason Penn State was even still getting votes last week before the
2:00.5	Northwestern game
2:01.1	was because of what people thought they were going to be in the preseason.
2:04.3	And I kind of feel that way back at USC now.
2:06.3	In people's defense, none of the teams that they beat were great football teams.
2:10.3	But sometimes it's not about who you beat, it's how you beat them.
2:13.8	And when you watch USC play, they were playing very good football.
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