'Irish Wear Green' has been a cool mantra but bringing them out as a surprise could be something super cool for the staff to do in a huge game in Los Angeles. Notre Dame has a storied history of wearing green against USC specifically and in a must-win game for Notre Dame's College Football Playoff hopes, I like the idea.

“Notre Dame’s trip to the Rose Bowl to play Stanford on January 6th, 1925, that was the first time Knute Rockne had been to the West Coast, and he and his family basically fell in love with it,” says Jim Lefebvre, author of “Coach for a Nation” and “Loyal Sons.”

Two late interceptions for touchdowns by the Fighting Irish seal a victory over the Trojans that was much closer than the 49-35 final score at the Coliseum