About 10 minutes away from the telecast starting. Excited for this one. Can't. Wait.

Shoutout to Ronnie Stanley for this tweet before the game.

Go Irish

Cam Smith out. First time I saw that. Would guess that Finke plays a lot more in this game. Potentially Michael Young as well

ND won the toss and will receive

Tony Jones didn't look ready for Sanders to take that kick out. Short return and long field to go for ND.

Malik Dorton in for Fatu at Dt and he makes a tackle on 1st play

Wimbush missed Claypool who had Marshall beat bad on double move. Gotta make that throw. Bad miss

3 and 11

Wimbush pressured on safety blitz. ND had perfect call with screen to Adams. He dropped it or else it could have gone for huge yards.

3 and out to start for ND

Jack Jones with a good return in ND territory.

Bad snap and fumble by Darnold. Coney comes up with the football!

Defense bails out the offense after a bad opening drive.

They are reviewing it, but going to be tough to overturn.

Call confirmed. ND now have the ball at own 49

Wimbush with a 1st down run on the keep. If they don't defend that, going to be LONG day for USC

KJ on the reverse. Love that call. Another 1st

EQ!!!!!!!!!!

Play-action and they all bit up on the lay. Jack Jones bad eye discipline and EQ easy on the post for six

Yoon extra point makes it 7-0

Returned to the 28 by Velus Jones

ND D flying to the ball. Nice gain of 8 to Vaughns, but five guys got to the ball there

Tillery great job inside to stuff Ronald Jones on 1st.

3rd and 6 after Tranquill gives Burnett no room after the catch

4 man rush and Crawford with good coverage on Burnett, but bad throw behind and broken up.

USC punts. Finke nice return to about the 22

Forgot to mention that Troy Pride came in on that 3rd down. Noticed him late. Was in for Watkins

Nice first down run for Adams. Two backs in on that play with Jones Jr. in as a lead.

Next play Jones lining up wide and cracking the OLB. Get outside for Adams and a 1st

Wimbush on play-action roll, nothing there and makes the rusher miss for 6

Adams with a big hole in that B gap. Bars called for holding backside. Too bad because Nelson destroyed his dude

1 and 20

Toss to Jones and he gets about 15. Nice job by Bars leading on that play

KJ on the jet sweep and another 1st. Running the ball really well.

Took a deep shot, EQ beat 24. Just overthrown.

Langley in at CB for Marshall (24). Trucked by Wimbush for the 1st down

KJ!!!! Back shoulder. Terrific catch, ball placement.

Touchdown Irish!

14-0 after the Yoon extra point

Iman Marshall is down on the table with an ice pack on his knee.

Nice job by Regan on the kickoff coverage to make the tackle

Coney with a big hit on Jones

2 and 10

Tillery gets pressure and forces a throw out of bounds on the roll

3 and 10

ND drops 8 and still gets pressure. Okwara forces Darnold to scramble. Tackled by Daelin for 4 yards.

3 and out

Big punt by USC bails them out of field position jail

ND takes over around their own 30

Adams runs through another big hole. Left side caving it down

Tried to hit Mack on a wheel. Incomplete

ND tried to go QB counter and Rector knifed in for TFL

3 and 11

USC showing blitz and they bring the house. Wimbush needed to throw hot and tried to make Hawkins miss instead. Couldn't and ND will punt

Iman Marshall out for the game with that knee injury.

Penalty negates a long return by USC

Play-action deep ball and Mitchell was WIDE open. Coleman didn't break on it quick enough. Lucky for ND

Crawford tackles Vaughn after curl for 7

3 and 3

Great throw on the out by Darnold. First down USC

RPO by Darnold to Mitchell for 9 on the boundary

USC in a rhythm now. Darnold looks way more comfortable

Coney with a TFL. Hinish nice job not getting reached. Good first step

ND drops 8 and 3 man rush. Darnold improvises and found his WR soul mate Burnett for a big play. USC in a spot to score here.

Bad job by MDT leaping on that last rush before Darnold even pumped. Allowed Darnold to get outside and have more time to throw

ND comes back in new quarter with starting D-line back out there with Trumbetti in for D Hayes.

More pressure by Tillery and scramble for only 1.

3 and 4

Huge play here

Julian Okwara does not let Darnold get outside. Trumbetti with a great bull rush there that forced the scramble.

And then literally two minutes later they make the call on the hold on Elliott for an automatic first down. The right call, but get your stuff together officials. Horrible communication by them. Then USC forced to call a timeout because they kept it 3rd down instead of switching it 1st. Not sure why that wasn't automatic 1st down.

What a gong show.

ND stuffs Ronald Jones on 3rd and short. USC forced to kick field goal. Delay of game on SC

And USC kicker misses it. That was...interesting

Big stop for the ND defense, with an assist from the refs

Smith got through for the no gain on the outside zone. Couldn't see who missed him

Adams then with great feet to make defenders miss. Finishes the run with authority

Man coverage allows Wimbush to get the 1st on a scramble

1 and 10 at the 46

Jones downhill for 9

3 and short after the hitch doesn't go well. Wimbush keeps on 3rd and short for a nice gain

ND inside the SC 40

2 and 12 after zone to the boundary. Too high on the screen to EQ. Bad throw caused by pressure

3 and 12

Way too slow releasing that ball on the screen. ND bad execution on these all around.

Muffed punt by Jack Jones recovered by Tranquill!

ND ball inside the 10

Play-action and Wimbush had to throw it away after Nwosu pressure

Wimbush grabbed his shoulder after that hit

Zone to the left side gets ND to the 3

Adams in on the next play. Touchdown Irish

So good at finishing those runs. Jump cut and feet. So underrated

They are reviewing it to see if his knee was down before the ball crossed. Think it will stay a touchdown

Don't think there is enough to overturn

Touchdown stands

21-0 after the Yoon extra point

Good return by Velus Jones. Yoon has to make the tackle. KO coverage has been...not good this season

Burnett wide open over the middle on the slant. Nice gain puts them over midfield

Then Watkins with the pick! Cover two and poor throw by Darnold

Wow

Run by Wimbush and short to EQ sets up 3 and 4

PA to Smythe and no one was covering him. Big ND 1st down

Wimbush with some magic. Man to man killing USC again. Doesn't see 1st read open and big run inside the 10. What an athlete

Timeout by USC as they know this is huge. Can't let ND get six here

Toss and great job by Jack Jones stepping up to make the tackle to set up 3 and goal at the 4

ND has to take a timeout when they couldn't get the next play figured out

QB sweep. Left side, strong side.

Touchdown Irish

28-0 Irish after the XP

3:54 left in the half

Yoon boots one through the end zone. No reason not to do that every time with the way ND has covered these kicks the majority of the time

Tillery gets at TFL. Coney in there too. USC can't run the ball so far

3 and 4

Good throw on the out. Blitz picked up well by SC. Pride with the tackle

Blitz by ND, picked up pretty well, but Kareem beats the RT. Sack. Darnold has his eyes on the rush.

D Hayes blows up the screen. 3 and 18 coming up

Darnold throws it away. SC will punt. Great coverage down the field by ND

ND wanted a deep shot. Nothing there and Wimbush smartly threw it away

Draw to Wimbush gets 9. ND calls timeout with under a minute left.

Trying to get points on the board again before the half.

1st down with the Wimbush run then he spikes it

36 seconds left

Just too far for Alize. Inches from a big play

3 and 10

EQ drops the out, would have been short of the stick. Great throw by Wimbush, though

Awesome punt by Newsome out at the 1 yard line. Also holding on USC

QB sneak to end the half

28-0 in that fever dream of a 1st half

SC gets the ball to start the second half.

Couldn't really go much better for ND. I'm sure Darnold and SC will come out looking for big plays right away. Gotta finish

Coney with a slam on the kickoff return.

Jones with big run to start the half. Daelin gotta get off that block quicker.

SC going fast with another 1st down on a quick hitch to the boundary.

Tillery makes the tackle on RB Ware, then Darnold scrambles for three with Morgan making the tackle

3 and 5

D Hayes with the sack. Darnold doesn't have time to find anyone. Lobendahn with terrible technique. Wide and on his heels. Bull rush had him on skates

Go for it on 4th. Third time Darnold hit the out. This time to Burnett with Watkins off

Vaughns with a good route beats Crawford. SC in the red zone

Kareem and Tranquill stuff on 1st down.

2 and goal at the 5

Roll right and Watkins all over that. Broke it up. Lucky it was not picked

3 and goal

Mitchell beats Watkins on the slant for the touchdown.

The drive SC needed to start the half.

28-7

Sanders with a lot of space gets to the 35

Adams on 1st down. Great cut back against the pursuit gets a 1st

Pin and pull to the boundary gets only 1 after the 21 on the first run

2 and 9

RPO and Tommy Kraemer was too far down field. They called it on Bars, but was on both of those guys.

Short gain by Jones sets up 3 and long

Strike by Wimbush to Claypool for the 1st. Jones was beat on the pass rush by Hawkins on the late blitz, but it came from so deep that it didn't get there

Two physical runs by Jones after that to get the 1st

Tried to go reverse to KJ, block in the back on Wimbush haha. Don't see that call every day.

1 and 20

Wimbush gets the 1st on the run. Again, the coverage is allowing this to happen

Then he is in on the next play. Great block on the edge by Jones and EQ got in the way for Wimbush to cut back in.

35-7 after the extra point by Yoon

SC tries to use motion to get Morgan out of the box. He still gets back in to make the tackle, but six yards down the field

Okwara just killed the right tackle on a bull rush, but Darnold got the ball out quick. Mitchell almost broke one.

ND CBs playing off and not tackling that great on the outside. Another first down after Burnett shakes Crawford

2 and 10 after an incomplete on the roll by Darnold

Flag on the play. Mitchell jumped off side

2 and 15

Tillery and Trumbetti both with pressure. Trumbetti unblocked but Darnold escaped to scramble for the 1st

ND bit on the screen and let Burnett go. Open for the touchdown. Didn't get a great view to see what exactly happened, but looked like Watkins vacated when Darnold looked him off. Don't know if Tranquill was supposed to be running with Burnett there as he bit up, but don't think it was man.

Will have to watch it over again

Regardless, 35-14

KJ back to return the kick. Stumbled a bit. Short return

Well, then there is that. Adams to the house on the 1st play of the drive.

84 yards. Was not touched.

42-7 Irish

Dink and dunk, but SC keeps killing ND on these short outs

Nice job by Jay Hayes chasing down that 1st down run. Then he gets a hard work sack on 2nd down.

Darnold looks like he hurt his ankle on that play.

Backup Matt Fink in the game.

Screen gets 5 to set up 4 and 7

End of 3, 42-14

ND brought the blitz. Looked like Pride might have got away with PI, but tough to say. Not a great throw by Darnold

ND takes over on downs

ND goes sudden change. Flea flicker. Wimbush made Cameron Smith miss. No one open deep, but KJ came back to the football for a big gain.

Then quick hitch to KJ with a block by Alize down field to get a 1st. KJ unleashed in this game

ND in the red zone, but not much on 1st and 2nd. 3 and 7 and they give it to Adams

They want to get him in the Heisman conversation and he delivers. Q Nelson man ball on Rasheem Green. Touchdown Adams

49-17

Bad snap, then ball thrown away. Fink in the game for Darnold

Fink with a nice run on the zone read. Gets about 20.

Tranquill unblocked and blows up the swing to the back for TFL

3 and 6

Flag, false start on right tackle Austin Jackson

Gives up the 1st on 3 and 11. ND blitzed, but they rolled away from it. Nice throw by Fink

3 and 3 after another zone read by Fink

Kareem around the edge and gets a sack. Awesome jump off the line. Out the gate before RT even moved

Chris Finke with the nice return. ND ball at around the 25

Backups in the game. Book hands off to McIntosh for no gain

Book goes outside on the read. Not sure why he didn't cut it up.

3 and 9. Incomplete to Boykin on the in. Was well covered

ND backups still kicking them up front. Force 3 and long and five yard gain underneath on 3rd down.

SC will punt. They try to pin it and they can't even get that right. What a day for SC. Must feel like the Irish felt in 2014

Book with a scramble up the middle to get a lot back after a Bivin penalty for a low block

Incomplete to Kmet on 3rd down

Just running out the string now under 3 minutes to go

Newsome's punt goes out at around the 35...ish

Jonathan Jones with a TFL

Hinish with a pressure. Seeing a better get off from him today

Robertson comes up with a tackle on the screen to force a 3 and out

Finke fair catch and they will run the ball to run out the clock

How about those Irish? Biggest home win for Brian Kelly? Maybe?

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