{"id":270,"date":"2012-11-24T11:06:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T16:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=270"},"modified":"2012-11-24T11:06:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T16:06:58","slug":"notre-dame-vs-usc-point-spread-line-and-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2012\/11\/24\/notre-dame-vs-usc-point-spread-line-and-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Notre Dame vs. USC point spread, line and preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-133\" title=\"mantiteo\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2012\/10\/mantiteo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2012\/10\/mantiteo.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2012\/10\/mantiteo-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Notre Dame Fighting Irish will play against the USC Trojans Saturday night at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The game will be played at 8 p.m. on ABC. For Notre Dame it the final obstacle in a season that could see them win the National Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Notre Dame is a 5.5 point favorite in the game. The spread is surprisingly small considering the Fighting Irish are ranked No. 1 and USC (7-4) is ranked. The over\/under or total points scored is set at 45.5 for tonight&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>This game has been talked about in regards to Notre Dame&#8217;s season for weeks. Now that the Fighting Irish are on the cusp of playing in the national championship game it has added importance. USC will have a freshman quarterback under center as Max Wittek plays for the injured Matt Barkley.<\/p>\n<p>Under different conditions last season, USC defeated Notre Dame 31-17 in South Bend. USC has won 9 of the last 10 meetings between teh schools.<\/p>\n<p>Will USC, who has lost three of its last four games, upset Notre Dame?<\/p>\n<p>Notre Dame has defeated Oklahoma, Michigan State, and Stanford this year. Can they add USC to that list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Notre Dame Fighting Irish will play against the USC Trojans Saturday night at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The game will be played at 8 p.m. on ABC. For Notre Dame it the final obstacle in a season that could see them win the National Championship. Notre Dame is a 5.5 point favorite in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaafb-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}