... Irish will take the field to continue a heated rivalry that began in 1926.

While USC has dominated the recent years of these gridiron battles, it has not always been this way.

Much of the 1980s and 1990s saw the Irish, led by Lou Holtz, beat the Trojans with the same regularity that USC enjoys over Notre Dame in this decade.

Every year, the USC-Notre Dame game captures the imagination of college football fans throughout the nation, and many of those years found the winner of this game vying for the national championship.

This year, the game may not feature a national championship winner, but it will figure prominently in both the Trojans' title game hopes and perhaps the future of Charlie Weis as Notre Dame's coac...

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