Sorry for the delay in posting, folks, but it's been rather busy since the grass at Notre Dame Stadium betrayed Duval Kamara and Jimmy Clausen's potential game-tying touchdown fell incomplete.  While the Michigan game resulted in an intentional stay on any posting here, the USC result just happened to coincide with a visit home and a long drive back to work and real life yesterday.  I'm obviously very sad that the Irish lost, but the effort was there and vast strides were made from last year.  The team didn't quit, and save for some issues (I'm treading lightly) in the secondary, most phases of the game produced for the Irish.  There wasn't a lot of pressure on Matt Barkley, but the front seven stopped the run about as well you could hope and Clausen and Golden Tate showed why they are potentially the most dangerous QB-to-WR combo in the nation.

We'll get into details of the Trojans defeat later in the week, but there is little time to dwell, as an enigmatic Boston College Eagles come to town Saturday.  Notre Dame has been on an inexcusable losing streak lately (although BC was off the schedule in both '05 and '06, perhaps the two best Irish teams of the decade), and if this season is to not fall off a cliff, Weis and company need this game.  I'll be exchanging queries with our sister site at SBN, BC Interruption, and looking into an Eagles team that has been as up and down as any this season.  BlogPoll ballot coming later today, along with some more fallout from Saturday's 34-27 loss.