Well, this is it. Has ND really progressed or was Utah off that day or overrated–forget Navy.

Mustain who has been in college for what seems 10 yrs will probably start. He is not that bad a QB and certainly has more experience than Rees.

Haven’t seen USC this year but they are 7-4 and the only blowouts were vs, Oregon State and Oregon–they did score 32 pts against Oregon. They lost to Stanford by 2pts. We did very poorly ag. Stanford.

USC played a tougher schedule than ND including wins ag. Cal, Arizona and Arizona State.

Keys to a ND victory:

1. stop the run
2. harass the QB continuously
3. ND must be able to run the ball or it’s all over.

Think only way ND wins is turnovers. This is going to be a very tough game and whoever plays 4 quarters will win. Rees will have to be damn near perfect for ND to win and, of course, the OL must play their best game of the year. The OL is the key to this game–if they relapse it’s over early.

John Goodman–lot has been written about his productivity on punts, Every game I saw he had a guy right in front of him before he even caught the ball. If they can set up the punt return properly I would let Floyd do the returns.

Final Score

ND 21 USC 20