Notre Dame showed up to play football on Saturday night as they squared off against the USC Trojans. It wasn’t a pretty offensive game for Notre Dame, but the defense helped lead the way for a 48-20 Irish victory.
On the first drive of the game, Caleb Williams threw an interception to Xavier Watts, and the Irish safety returned it inside USC’s 15 yard line. A few plays later, Sam Hartman found Gi’Bran Payne on a 4 yard touchdown pass to take an early 7-0 lead over USC.
Southern Cal and Notre Dame exchanged a couple of punts before USC was able to put together a 10 play 59 yard drive that ended in a field goal.