Notre Dame and USC have played annually for nearly a century. Will cooler heads prevail and will the two teams restart the historic rivalry in the somewhat near future? Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love (4) celebrates after getting a first down in the first half of a NCAA football game against Southern California at Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025, in South Bend. | MICHAEL CLUBB/SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Notre Dame and USC. You can't tell the history of college football without discussing the rivalry in depth, and even these great rivals who have combined for more NFL draft picks than any other two programs in history, can't get out of their own way. That's why Notre Dame and USC, a couple of traditional powerhouse football programs, aren't playing each other this fall for the first time (non-World War or pandemic caused) since 1925.…