{"id":60659,"date":"2026-08-03T18:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T18:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/60659\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T18:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T18:38:15","slug":"usc-notre-dame-renew-rivalry-series-with-a-key-adjustment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/60659\/","title":{"rendered":"USC, Notre Dame renew rivalry series with a key adjustment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

USC coach Lincoln Riley<\/a> said he is glad to have the Trojans\u2019 annual rivalry game with Notre Dame<\/a> back without compromising the Trojans\u2019 biggest need.<\/p>\n

The schools announced they agreed to a four-year series starting in 2030 during Week 1 of the season at the Coliseum. The following year the teams will play in Week 1 at Notre Dame Stadium. The 2032 and 2033 games will be played during Week 1-3 of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe felt like the best thing for our program was to play this game early in the season,\u201d Riley said. \u201cAs I\u2019ve said publicly, we\u2019re a part of a conference. We have a conference schedule to answer to. We don\u2019t make our own schedule, we don\u2019t choose our own kickoff times. And so with that, we have much less flexibility and so it made more sense for us to play this game in a traditional nonconference window.\u201d<\/p>\n

Riley, who took many jabs locally and nationally<\/a> for letting one of college football\u2019s most prestigious rivalry series expire, has been steadfast in noting the inequity between USC playing Notre Dame amid a grueling Big Ten schedule and independent Notre Dame\u2019s ability to surround the contest with less taxing matchups to aid its College Football Playoff push.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, both schools said they valued the rivalry and they found a way to reach an agreement<\/a> announced Monday.<\/p>\n

USC owns a 37-53-5 all-time record against Notre Dame, excluding the Trojans\u2019 2005 victory, which was later vacated due to NCAA sanctions (original record: 38-53-5). Riley is 1-3 during his Trojans tenure against the Irish. The teams battle for the Jeweled Shillelagh.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this benefits everyone,\u201d Riley said. \u201cI think this benefits USC. I think this benefits Notre Dame. I think this benefits college football. This is important. We know its important to our fan base, we know it\u2019s important to alumni, we know it\u2019s important to former players and coaches.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USC coach Lincoln Riley said he is glad to have the Trojans\u2019 annual rivalry game with Notre Dame…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[32061,1156,23872,1676,3208,8,5413,9,1207,30807,32060,144,3950,7003,7,32059,6214,2092],"class_list":["post-60659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-benefit","tag-college-football","tag-conference","tag-following-year","tag-game","tag-headlines","tag-monday","tag-news","tag-notre-dame","tag-riley","tag-rivalry-series","tag-school","tag-season","tag-team","tag-top-stories","tag-trojans","tag-usc","tag-week"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/117033035849685014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}