In the constellation of pandemic “blessings” the current Notre Dame sophomore class lays claim to an curious distinction: they may be the only Irish players to avoid playing in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. So many words are spilled celebrating the Greatest Intersectional Rivalry In College Football, but too few folks are asking a more important question: What if we didn’t?
USC, both as a university and as a football program, is mired chaos, and this saccharine petit fours soured jarringly by, well, all of this (TW: garbage), because we’re never sure if all the inept leadership is gone, or just in hiding.