While the focus for Marcus Freeman and his Notre Dame football team is about to be getting ready for the season more than anything else, it appears that there are those in South Bend working behind the scenes to keep an annual rivalry game with USC alive.
Whether or not the series will go beyond 2026 has been a hot topic for most of the summer. Officials with Notre Dame, including Freeman, have made it clear that they want to keep the longest rivalry game in college football going indefinitely. USC, including head coach Lincoln Riley, has paid lip service to wanting to keep it alive, while simultaneously sounding indifferent to the situation.