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#3 USC keeps its hopes alive.

• In order to have any chance at all, they had to defeat Notre Dame, and not just to beat them, but to pound the crap out of them, because #2 Michigan had already drubbed the Irish 47-21. The Trojans were up to the challenge, trouncing Notre Dame by an almost identical score (44-24). That doesn't mean they will make it to #2, but the point is that they aren't eliminated