{"id":78276,"date":"2022-11-26T17:11:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T00:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=78276"},"modified":"2022-11-27T00:15:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T07:15:54","slug":"usc-vs-notre-dame-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=78276","title":{"rendered":"Trojans Run Over Irish, 38-27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Caleb Willams scores three times on the ground and once through the air to lead the Trojans past Notre Dame. (Photo by Duane Barker)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Tim Peterson <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Los Angeles) – Caleb Williams ran for three touchdowns and threw for one more to lead USC to a 38-27 win over Notre Dame Saturday night before 72, 613 fans at the LA Memorial Coliseum. <\/p>\n\n\n

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The Trojans jumped out to a 10-0 first quarter lead and never relinquished the advantage. USC racked up 204 yards on the ground and 436 yards overall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

USC drove 75 yards on 8 plays on their opening possession. Caleb Williams hit Tahj Washington for an 11-yard touchdown pass to give the Trojans a 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

USC marched down into the red zone on its next possession but penalties stalled the drive. Dennis Lynch kicked a 31-yard field goal to make it 10-0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the second quarter Notre Dame drove 80 yards on 9 plays. Drew Pyne connected with Michael Mayer in the endzone for a 22-yard touchdown with 6:14 left in the quarter to cut the Trojans lead to three. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Austin Jones with 154 big yards for USC. (Photo by Duane Barker)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

USC answered with a 10-play, 75-yard drive with Williams finishing it with a 5-yard touchdown run with 34 seconds left in the first half. The Trojans took a 17-7 lead into halftime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The USC defense rose up early in the third as the Irish drove down to the Trojans 26-yard line to open the third quarter but a mishandled snap by Pyne resulted in a fumble and Ralen Goforth recovered it for USC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trojans then took advantage of the miscue with a 74 -yard drive capped by a 5-yard TD jaunt by Raleek Brown for a 24-7 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Only two carries for Raleek Brown but one was for a touchdown! (Photo by Duane Barker)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Notre Dame responded quickly needing only five plays to go 75 yards. Pyne found Deion Colzie in the endzone for a 23-yard touchdown. The Trojans were up 24-14 with 5:54 left in the third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams picked up his second touchdown run of the night- this one from 3 yards out to give USC a 31-14 lead early in the fourth quarter. The March covered 75 yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Logan Diggs scored on a 5-yard run on the next possession to complete a 75-yard Notre Dame drive as the Irish again were within 10. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the Trojans who seemingly had a response for every Notre Dame rally. answered the bell again. Williams led them down the field and then on a fourth and two he busted off a 16-yard touchdown run right through the heart of the Irish defense to make it 38-21 with 2:35 left. That spelled the end for Notre Dame. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Irish did find the endzone one more time when Pyne hit Mayer for a 24-yard score with just over a minute remaining but the Trojan horse was already down the road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams finished with 232 yards passing and a touchdown on 18 of 22 completions and 35 yards and 3 touchdowns rushing. Austin Jones led the rushing attack with 154 yards on 25 carries. Jordan Addison hauled in 3 receptions for 45 yards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Notre Dame Pyne completed 23 of 26 for 318 yards and 3 touchdowns but was intercepted by Muir’s own Calen Bullock in the fourth quarter. That pick led to Williams’ touchdown. Mayer had 8 catches for 98 yards and 2 scores. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

USC improved to 11-1 with the victory and will play in the Pac-12 conference championship game next Friday in Las Vegas. Notre Dame fell to 8-4 on the year but will still go bowling. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tim Peterson (Los Angeles) – Caleb Williams ran for three touchdowns and threw for one more to lead USC to a 38-27 win over Notre Dame Saturday night before 72, 613 fans at the LA Memorial Coliseum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78276"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78308,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78276\/revisions\/78308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}