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Notre Dame Celebrates on USC’s Turf, Wins 22-13

Nov 24, 2012   //   by admin   //   Football  //  Comments Off on Notre Dame Celebrates on USC’s Turf, Wins 22-13

Screen Shot 2012-12-27 at 9.39.32 PMLOS ANGELES–The Coliseum’s walls are awfully thin.

As Trojans coach Lane Kiffin addressed the media following his team’s 22-13 loss, he could hear the Notre Dame Fighting Irish celebrating. Notre Dame had just secured a national championship bid on the Trojans’ home turf.

This was supposed to be the Trojans’ season. Instead, the preseason No. 1 team in the nation dropped its fifth game of the season. In a season with such high hopes, USC ultimately lost four of its last five regular-season games after beginning the year with a 6-1 record.

“It’s very difficult for everyone in our locker room,” said Kiffin. “For everything that hasn’t happened the way we wanted this season, we hoped things could have been different today.” Read more >>

BIO

Aaron Fischman is a sports writer, author, editor and multimedia journalist, who currently hosts the On the NBA Beat podcast, a weekly interview show he co-founded with fellow USC alums Loren Lee Chen and brother Joshua Fischman in advance of the 2015-16 NBA season. On the podcast, he and the crew interview some of the league’s best reporters on their particular beat. Fischman’s first book, A Baseball Gaijin: Chasing a Dream to Japan and Back, an uplifting nonfiction Japanese baseball story, has been nominated for the prestigious CASEY Award for best baseball book of 2024. Read more.