Jadarian Price scored on a tackle-breaking 100-yard kickoff return in the third quarter, Jeremiyah Love rushed for a career-high 228 yards and a score, and No. 13 Notre Dame beat No. 20 Southern California a 34-24 loss on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Love\u2019s previous rushing best was 157 yards in a 56-30 win over Purdue earlier this season.<\/p>\n
Trailing 24-21 in the third quarter, Notre Dame (5-2) scored 13 unanswered points.<\/p>\n
USC (5-2) took a 24-21 lead on a 59-yard TD pass from Jordan Maiava to Ja\u2019Kobi Lane. Maiava also connected with Lane for the 2-point conversion.<\/p>\n
Price then broke two tackles and accelerated through a seam in the coverage for his 100-yard score to give the lead back to Notre Dame.<\/p>\n
Notre Dame quarterback C.J. Carr was 16 of 26 for 136 yards and one TD. He rushed 1 yard for Notre Dame\u2019s final score.<\/p>\n
Notre Dame\u2019s defense came up big in the second half. Christian Gray picked off a pass at the Notre Dame 45-yard line after Price\u2019s return, after getting beat for a touchdown, a 2-point conversion and getting flagged twice for pass interference.<\/p>\n
After USC reached the Notre Dame 37 with 11:11 left in the fourth quarter, Adon Shuler knocked the ball away from Makai Lemon on a run and Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa recovered to end the threat.<\/p>\n
Notre Dame also stopped USC on a fourth-and-1 with 6:02 left in the game, and Luke Talich intercepted Maiava with 1:06 to play.<\/p>\n
USC played without running backs Eli Sanders and Waymond Jordan, who were injured in last week\u2019s 31-13 victory against Michigan. The Trojans were limited to 68 yards rushing against Notre Dame.<\/p>\n
Maiava picked up the slack with 22 of 42 passing for 328 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n
The takeaway<\/p>\n
Notre Dame boosted its College Football Playoff hopes with the victory, and should move up in the rankings.<\/p>\n
USC will likely tumble out of the Top 25.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Notre Dame has a bye week and then plays at Boston College on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n
USC also has a bye week. The Trojans return to action at Nebraska on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jadarian Price scored on a tackle-breaking 100-yard kickoff return in the third quarter, Jeremiyah Love rushed for a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":315177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,11016],"class_list":{"0":"post-315176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-usc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115399050137333689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}