Well, the drive for five very much alive as Notre Dame wins its fifth consecutive game going into its final open date weekend inside of a soggy Notre Dame Stadium where the rain continues to come down as we've crossed over from midnight into Sunday morning.

Again, Notre Dame 34 USC 24, a significant victory in the micro sense for Notre Dame,

a massive victory in the macro sense.

I am John Bryce, the football scoop in Irish Illustrated.

He is Drew Mintock, our producer, Tom Zwiller, and this is Irish Illustrated's overtime live.

Drew, your initial thoughts on Illustrated's overtime live.

Drew, your initial thoughts on Notre Dame's fifth consecutive win,

Notre Dame's third consecutive win against USC, and a triumph that keeps the nationally ranked Irish,

very much alive to keep handling business and have a shot at the college football playoff.

I think that's exactly it.

This is the biggest game they had left on their schedule.

USC was looking really good, especially after that dominant win over Michigan last week,

and for Nardium to come in and kind of keep their playoff folks alive.

There's a lot of chaos today again in college football, and I think this really kind of keeps them in their sports line on a 24-7 sports set of

if Nardium won this game, they have a 53% chance of making the college football playoffs.

They're favored by, according to ESPN, they have an 81% chance at worst in each of their

games going forward.

Most of those games are 95%.

So I guess Pitt and Navy are the toughest match

is going forward. So getting through this game, a very dangerous team, probably the best

quarterbacker. Jada Miovi was playing better than any other quarterback in the country coming into

this game. And I know he threw for a lot of yards, but he threw for about 52 percent,

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