USC-Notre Dame Picture Of Day, II

usc-nd-1996It’s the 20th anniversary of USC’s 27-20 overtime victory over Notre Dame at the Coliseum. This was one of the more significant wins in the series because it snapped a 13-year winless streak vs. the Irish. Delon Washington (above) had a key TD and 2-point conversion to send the game to OT.

24 thoughts on “USC-Notre Dame Picture Of Day, II

  1. I had tickets to the game, but was too hungover from the night before to get out of bed, yes it was 5pm kick off. Still can hear the horns honking and people celebrating and screaming from the apartment windows. My biggest regret in life, besides that Grindr meet up with Stephen Port. Now that was a close one.

  2. The Sammy Knight game as I call it. He won the game for us by causing the Irish fumble as they were about to build an insurmountable lead – and also recovering the ball on about our 2-3 yd line. The rest is history.

    Drove home with friends probably as happy as we have ever been after a Trojan victory. My God, it was fun!

    And what a relief to finally end that horrible streak by Lyin’ Lou. We sent him out bad. It was the least we could do and was some solace after completely throwing away a game to ucla in 2 OT’s 38-31 the week before and finishing 6-6.

    • Sammy Knight was the second most overrated running back in USC history, next to , Arron Emanuel ..lol

    • Yeah, sending Lou out a loser in his last regular season game as the coach of ND almost made up for losing to him every single year before that.

  3. The student section rushed the field. I remember it like it was yesterday. Grabbed some turf and still have it in a zip lock baggie.

  4. Tom Herman to LSU.. Wonder if O stays on or leaves again since he was not hired as the HC… USC should bring him as the RECRUITING GURU and Assoc HC.

    • Mark May just ripped LSU AD right now at halftime for allowing this to go public on Thanksgiving while Ed Orgeron is still the interim. And YES, bring Ed O in to recruit!

      • LSU is denying it online saying nothing has been decided, although Houston is throwing money at Herman to stay.

          • Kelly is rock solid at ND. The Irish AD, Jack Swarbrick, loves him! Kelly’s going nowhere.

            Irish fans want him gone but it makes no difference. It’s not like they’re going to stop flocking to every South Bend game.

          • Then the hot seat because the Domers are supposed to be the program who keep their noses clean and this academic thing doesn’t look very good in that regard. Their beat writers have all agreed it’s time for him to go. He had a couple of good seasons but I don’t think he’s such a big deal really in my opinion. I think we’re gonna give them a proper spanking Saturday also.

          • I’ve watched or listened to every SC/ND game for the last 54 years. I’ve seen so many big upsets, small upsets, bad calls, heroic performances, bonehead plays, fumbles, picks, blow-outs, nailscrapers, heartbreaks, brawls, Heisman winners, spectacular runs and weird things happen I could never begin to count them.

            I do believe we’ll win on Saturday, hopefully big. But ND’s cornered and humiliated with scandal. They knock off SC and they can breath again and save some face. ND has lots of underachieving talent but I don’t remember the last time we were ever favored by 17.5 against the Irish.

            Darnold will abuse them and our D will choke them off. Hope it’s not a cliffhanger for whatever reason.

          • I think Paul Hornug was ND star player when I first saw game in person and SC Jon Arnett and CR ROBERTS and company beat them, I may have have seen one earlier , but ND and SC is THE RIVLRY ….HOWARD JONES was the man…SC was good,that coach made them GREAT

          • Hat’s off to you.

            Jones truly was great. He didn’t talk to his players much, even the great ones. Very reserved in that regard, like McKay.

          • Reminder, the pope is a Jesuit so he already knows that the order that runs ND is inferior to the Jesuits. Since the pope loves the limelight he has to love USC with all the limelight and publicity they get. He will bless USC then

  5. Last year (1996) for ‘granny Holtz’ and man was he pi((ed he lost that final game…oh for the days long past….Pennsylvania coal miners suiting up the day of the game for ‘The Princess’… a fraud con called Kelley waiting for Swarbrick to offer a gig no one outside of South Bend would ever offer this clown….Charlie…Tyrone… Bob….Lou…Jerry…Dan…Ara…if only…..gone are the rigged con jobs that the MBS (Mutual Broadcasting System)….and the rest of the ‘naw yawk’ clowns who foolishly embraced their ‘yankees’ and never understood the power of college football…I give you ‘rut-gahs’…if only….Jack…Bobbie….Teddie…why?

    Why ? Because you suck… you are naw yawk’…and we are your worst nightmare – Los Angles aka LA – USC!

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