Notre Dame Fighting Irish at USC Trojans Football

At the beginning of the season, if you had said that this game would see an under-performing team trying to knock off an undefeated #1 team, looking to get into the National Championship, no one would have questioned you. But nobody would have believed that the Irish would be the undefeated team, while the Trojans were not playing to expectations. USC has lost three of its last four and has also lost to every ranked team they have played this year.  Plus, they're playing without their starting quarterback, so things don't look promising for the Trojans. However, the last two weekends have not been kind to the #1 ranked teams. Will Notre Dame suffer the same fate as Alabama and Kansas State, or will they silence their critics and play for the National Championship?