Let's dance with this. Are you ready for rapid fire?

Let's do it. All right, here we go. So USC, of course,

speaking of which, Jess, is a 500 team, but Saturday's game was still close until the end. Here is Marcus Freeman on that. 84 days ago was when we lost Northern Illinois.

But, you know, I think somebody had asked me in a press conference earlier in the week,

are you worried that your team hasn't been in close games in the past few weeks?

And I said, no, because the mentality is one play, one life.

Like, this play is the only play that matters.

And so I had to continue to remind them, have the urgency that we must have,

but this is the only play that matters.

And we got to execute.

And we had some adversity, but they responded.

14-14 at halftime, the way there guys came out of that locker room and responded.

It was the sense of urgency that we didn't have

versus Northern Illinois. You go back and you look at the notes that I met with the captains

and I took after that game. It was like, hey, we didn't have the sense of urgency to panic almost

and we got to go out and execute. And they did it today. Interesting. I don't know if you saw the video that Fighting Irish Media put out on social media,

you know, like some of the highlights and stuff like that.

But coming out of the locker room, Freeman turned,

and I think it was one of the offensive linemen or a couple of, you know,

linemen might

have been there. And he said, we've got to have the sense of urgency this second half that we

didn't have against Northern Illinois. He was literally still bringing up Northern Illinois coming

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