... will be a good measuring stick as to where Notre Dame is. Have they arrived as a legitimate Top 25 team, or do they still have some rebuilding to do?

Notre Dame has some big names in this game. Jimmy Clausen is a Heisman candidate. Golden Tate and Armando Allen are also becoming more well known around college football. USC has a Heisman candidate in Joe McKnight as well.

As big of stars as these guys are, it is fundamentals that will determine this one. As complicated as we like to make it, football is really about two simple things. That is blocking and tackling. The teams that do these things well win. The teams that don't lose. The Irish have blocked well all year. That is why Clausen, Tate, Michael Floyd, and Allen have been able...

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