USC'S PACT WITH DEVIL CONTINUES

by Orson on Oct 17, 2005 8:09 AM EDT

While watching the debacle of the UF/LSU game, we also watched USC continue their pact with the devil by beating Notre Dame despite getting outplayed for most of the game by a bunch of guys recruited by--gulp!--Ty Willingham. Were it not for a single missed tackle and the goofiest, least athletic qb sneak we've ever seen, Notre Dame would have had the ultimate scalp for 2005. (Leinart truly did resemble a ballroom dancing fool, attempting to pirouette across the line like John O'Hurley in the middle of a particularly passionate flamenco routine.)

Leinart's been taking notes, judging by his qb sneak Saturday.

As it stands, USC will win out and likely face Texas in the Rose Bowl, winning their third national title and turning pro coach pumpkin Pete Carroll into a pedigreed collegiate coaching genius. Pete will, along with every team member on all three teams, live a long, prosperous life filled with strange successes until George Burns shows up in sunglasses and a red smoking jacket to claim their souls one by one.

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No one is allowed to win three national championships in a row (see: Bama robbed by Notre Dame in the ‘60s). UCLA will beat Southern Cal in an improbable, impossible shocker. You’ll see.

by Newspaper Hack on Oct 17, 2005 10:21 AM EDT reply actions

This is solely a personal view (I don’t know the national POV on USC), but I was at a party Saturday night with a lot of hard core college football fans (most UGA supporters), all of whom watched the USC-ND game. Only one or two of them were ND fans, and most considered it a meteor game. By the end of the game, all of them still didn’t like ND, but were even more loathing of USC. Yes, UGA fans have a rooting interest against teams ranked ahead of them. But the strange thing was the way most of these people (myself included) respected USC tons and thought they were really really good. After the game, that respect was replaced by just thinking of them as a heel. To go from admiration to distaste in 3 hours – I find it a little weird. But it’s how I felt, and I know a lot of others felt the same way.

by LD on Oct 17, 2005 10:55 AM EDT reply actions

For me, the most gut-wrenching play of that game was Leinart’s fumble. Ball-Room-Dancing Boy makes the stupidest decision by a college quarterback this year (save maybe Chris Leak’s rather pedestrian decision to return to college this fall) and runs the ball. He gets hammered before the goalline, and his ass is saved because he fumbles the fucking football out of bounds. Give my regards to Dorien Gray, asshole!

My one consolation is that I’m pretty certain Notre Dame will never lose another game in my lifetime.

by Shane MacGowan's Teeth on Oct 17, 2005 12:20 PM EDT reply actions