Notre Dame Football: How many different ways can we call USC, Cowards?

The story of how the USC Trojans are likely to be scheming a way to weasel out of the annual Battle for the Jeweled Shillelagh against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish isn’t something new. Ever since Lincoln Riley opened his mouth at Big 10 media days last year, the prospect of this series becoming defunct, has hung in the air like a bad fart.

“I would love to [continue the series]. I know it means a lot to a lot of people. The purist in you, no doubt. Now if you get in a position where you got to make a decision on what’s best for SC to help us win a national championship vs. keeping that, shoot, then you got to look at it.

“And listen, we’re not the first example of that. Look all the way across the country. There has been a lot of other teams sacrifice rivalry games. And I’m not saying that’s what’s going to happen. But as we get into this playoff structure, and if it changes or not, we’re in this new conference, we’re going to learn something about this as we go and what the right and the best track is to winning a national championship, that’s going to evolve.”

Lately, however, the banter surrounding the future of this rivalry’ has greatly increased on this site, on podcasts, and well… everywhere (shout out Tim Prister). When the Irish and the Clemson Tigers announced a 12 year scheduling agreement together and mutually called the game a “rivalry”, fans and alumni started to wonder if this was the beginning of the end for ND vs Southern Cal.

Enter Pat Forde dashing behind (that’s a bad joke but a funny joke as well).

News: The USC-Notre Dame rivalry, one of the greatest in college football, is on the brink of ending this fall. The two sides see the situation very differently, with talks ongoing. https://t.co/VsPyH8NyvC

— Pat Forde (@ByPatForde) May 19, 2025

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Publish date : 2025-05-20 07:06:00

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