Notre Dame Came Out Strong Against USC
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00:03 Because you and I broke it down, right?
00:05 It's like this, you look at USC outside of Caleb Williams,
00:08 they're not a great team.
00:10 >> No.
00:10 >> And in Notre Dame, but Notre Dame had to play well
00:14 to have the success that they had and boy did they.
00:18 But that's the biggest thing for me, Ryan, is it's not that they won.
00:21 It's not even the margin.
00:25 This was a team that was emotionally on the ropes.
00:28 This was a team that last week I said before the game, I don't feel good about
00:33 this, just the energy level, the emotion, they were worn out,
00:35 they played seven games, all this kind of stuff.
00:38 And we said on Tuesday, Ryan, we're gonna find out what kind of heart and
00:42 what kind of character this football team has.
00:45 And we found out tonight.
00:47 We found out a big, big way cuz you could tell from jump, Ryan,
00:50 that this team, whether or not they were gonna win or not.
00:54 You said it, you and I talked about on the way to the game.
00:56 We're gonna know by the end of the first quarter if Notre Dame came to play tonight.
00:59 You even said, you actually went further.
01:02 You said we're gonna know after the first couple series.
01:05 >> Well, after the first interception and they punched it, I'm like, okay.
01:09 Notre Dame came, they were there, right?
01:11 Like they came to play.
01:12 It's not necessarily a prediction of Notre Dame's gonna win the football game, but
01:15 I knew that they were mentally and emotionally in the game.
01:18 Because, Ryan, last week, very honest, that shook my confidence because that was
01:23 the first time under Marcus Freeman where I was like,
01:27 I don't know if that team wanted to be there.
01:31 I don't know if they wanted to play.
01:33 It didn't seem like they had emotion.
01:34 It didn't seem like they have energy against Louisville.
01:37 It was the weirdest, most bizarre game of all that I've seen on the Marcus Freeman
01:41 era cuz even when they've lost in the past to Ohio State the last two years and
01:45 USC last year, there was never a question of did they wanna be there and
01:50 did they wanna compete?
01:50 I never once thought that, right?
01:52 Last week, thought that a little bit.
01:54 So I was very curious of this game cuz I felt like it could have went two
01:58 different ways.
01:59 One, they came out and they did something like this, right?
02:01 Where they were just like, they were juiced and they were ready.
02:04 And I'm not talking about scoreboard for a second.
02:05 I'm talking about just the energy.
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