try to look somebody off, move and launch and hope one of your big play guys comes up with the ball. because there is not enough time to three to five yards at a clip go down the field. >> dan: we have seen trick plays, gadget plays. what does he have here on third down and five? he is out of time-outs. trailing by ten. usc needing a couple of quick scores. kessler waiting for somebody to get open and throws it out of bounds. clock stops at 1:06. fourth and five. >> doug: tighter coverage that time. locked on man-to-man underneath. better coverage. as i said, kessler with a three-man rush, you can hang on to the football, move around and hope something breaks open down the field.

i think that is his thinking there, maybe get a big play. >> dan: notre dame, just a stop away from putting this one away. kessler. completes near side. first down to madden. he gets out of bounds. they stop it with 1:01 left. >> doug: as long as you get out of bounds, five-yard gains are fine. as long as you can lineup quickly. >> dan: here come the trojans on the line again. waiting for a big play attempt here by kessler. underneath. that ball gets loose. >> doug: they are not a lot of big windows. the three-man rush allows notre dame to drop eight men in coverage.

your receivers will take a big hit. >> dan: sanders there by a couple of blue jerseys. >> doug: with all of the zone coverage you are getting, it is a risky call. but a screen pass to one of your backs, jones, they have an opportunity. >> dan: sheldon day on the sidelines. he was very active in the second half. second down and 10. usc out of time-outs, trailing by ten. waiting for one of these big

these speedy wideouts. pressure. steps up. throws near side. leads to smith-schuster. another first down for usc. they keep the chains moving. 49 seconds left. >> doug: the other approach is to get it in field goal range and cut it to seven and then go for your onside kick leaving yourself time. >> dan: just seems like sooner or later you go with one, try to get adoree' jackson down there. >> doug: he is hanging on to the ball but it isn't happening for him down the field. >> dan: now he is going to run this. trying to get out of bounds and stop it and he will. second down. he gets to the irish 41. >> doug: part of the mind set might be i start to throw a couple down there and it ended up with interceptions. i don't want a third interception. but it is getting to the point where you need points on the board in a hurry with the possibility of a onside kick.

the field goal. >> dan: kessler in trouble and down he goes. third and long and the clock is running. >> doug: eventually you are going to get there. but the defensive line, you get tired of pass rushing every play and eventually notre dame finally got there. >> dan: now we will be down to 20 seconds on this snap on third and 14. shovel. up to davis. >> doug: that will do it. >> dan: that is go to probably do it. jaylon smith with the final tackle of the game and time has finally run out on the trojans. notre dame wins it 41-31.

trojans fall to 3-3. usc gave them a big fight. but in the end notre dame pulling away. a very entertaining game in the latest renewal of this classic rivalry. that was a lot of fun. >> doug: big plays all over the place. trick plays. it came down to if all of those big plays, came down to offensive line play and running the football. >> dan: down to kathryn. >> kathryn: coach, this game was full of big plays, trick plays and a lot of momentum swings. what ultimately determined the win for the irish? >> two 90-yard drives offensively. big plays. and then we just found a way to make a couple of plays. i think the interception by russell was huge. got us that turnover. really, you know, i think that was a big play in this game where we could slow down usc. hats off to them. but our kids made plays in the

fourth quarter when they needed to. >> kathryn: coach, thanks for your time. dan. >> dan: thanks, kathryn. notre dame outscores usc 17-0 in the fourth quarter to win it as the irish hold the trojans scoreless in the last 20 minutes. you can watch brian kelly's press conference on nbcsports.com. coming up next your local news and an all new saturday night live with tracy morgan. stay with us on nbcsn for the notre dame postgame show. dan hicks saying so long from

irish get it done 41-31.im tiffany lane in for robert lowe. sometimes people get caught in the wrong place at the wrong time... but one western kansas 7th grader found himself in the right place at exactly the right time to save his neighbor's lives. molly brewer has the story.

bucket and i go over there and knock on the neighbor's door and wake them up and show them and my dad pours the bucket on." elijah is modest about what happened next... but his dad is proud to say, his son ran past the flames... knowing the family was inside and asleep. s/ jawn fulton, elijah's father:36 - :47 "he was brave. he didn't, he didn't hesitate. he sprung into action, ran over, um a foot from flames, knocking on doors, trying to make sure people were aware their house was on fire." s/u molly brewer, reporting :47 - :56 "now you can see the extent of the damage is pretty well isolated to this small section of the porch, but owners say if it burned even just ten more minutes, this would be a different story." s/ greg plowman, homeowner:56 - 1:01 "once you stop and think about it, realize how close you came to actually dying, it does wake you up a little bit." "it's minimal but i think another ten minutes it wouldn't be very minimal." the homeowners did smell something smoldering under the porch the night before... "i got home at 11:30 from work. i smelled something. smelled like barbecue, you know like someone was smoking or something like that. you know, so i didn't pay no mind to it." the family saying they were very

their smoke alarms in a while... "i'm really glad that we have the neighbors that we have." "i'm just glad they're not hurt and everybody's okay." >> since the fire plowman says-- he and his family have gone overboard buying smoke alarms and batteries. your 7-day forecast is coming up in 10 minutes after a chilly saturday morning in the 30s for most of us, we started to warm a little better by the afternoon with highs in the upper 50s and lower 60s. tonight will not be quite as cold as the past couple of nights and a strong south wind over the next couple of days will keep the warming going with highs near 70 for sunday and we may get close to

the city of sioux falls imposed a ban on texting while driving three years ago. now a city council member is trying to take it a step further by allowing only hands-free devices behind the wheel. jill johnson has the story. [duration:0:03] in late 2012, the texting and driving ban went into effect in sioux falls, shortly after, we went along for the ride just to see how hard the law was for police to enforce. it just so happens someone was written a ticket that day. [duration:0 :02] including the city and state wide ban, sioux falls police say they've only handed out 61 tickets for texting while driving... one was issued in 2012, 27 in 2013, 20 in 2014, and 13 so far this year.

[duration: 0:05] officer sam clemens says enforcing the law has it's challenges. [duration:0:09] police say if they do see someone using their phone, it's not always easy to tell what they're doing on it. [duration:0:06] clemens says many of the citations are issued to those who aren't paying attention at all. even then they may end up issuing a ticket for careless driving instead. that citation is kind of a catch all. it can be given no matter what the distraction. "i think the bigger part is that driving and if we see people aren't paying attention to the road, there's a lot of different laws that can cover that behavior and not just the texting." >> police won't give their opinion on how a total ban would impact them, until an actual ordinance is passed. the proposal will go before the city council for a first reading on monday. as sioux city works to improve its interstates, it looks like there'll be another closure in a couple days. a new barrier rail and traffic control will cause closure of the southbound i-29 off-ramp to floyd boulevard. it will be closed from 9 a-m to 3 p-m this monday, october 19th, as long as weather permits. motorists are encouraged to use the nebraska street off-ramp instead. for the latest traveler information you can always call 5-1-1

an exhibit honors soldiers lost in the war on terror started in nebraska, and now each state is trying to get one going. ktiv's tommie clark visited nebraska's exhibit and spoke with one soldier about its importance.

trucks and afghanistan in 20-10 where he was in charge of the guard towers. they protected not only the u-s, but also other countries against the taliban and iraqi terrorist groups. "knowing that i've done something greater then myself, that there is a reason why we are over fighting these conflicts, or wars against terrorism and that's why i always ask the question myself how does somebody keep doing this every day and the answer is it's just because it's what we love and we know it's right," said wakefield veterans of foreign wars quartermaster adjutant and nebraska army national guard soldier, jason jensen. "it's pretty special that we remain free in our country because of these people. it's very touching," said joanne gronenthal, whose cousin, brent zoucha, died in the war on terror. "the exhibit travels all around the state remembering our fallen. in wakefield, nebraska...tommie clark...ktiv news 4." >> the exhibit's last day is

4 in wakefield, nebraska at the little red hen theatre. more than 90 nebraska soldiers are honored on the exhibit. northeast nebraska soldiers that have given their lives in the war on terror are: navy lieutenant commander thomas blake junior, navy petty officer first class john douangdara, army sargent joshua ford, army first lieutenant edward iwan, army specialist blake kelly, army sargent joshua mann, army sargent robert schlote, army sargent jacob schmuecker, and army sargent klayton thomas. with halloween on the horizon, one local event is bringing people together. we give you a peak into the zombie run.

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by the afternoon with highs in the upper 50s and lower 60s. tonight will not be quite as cold as the past couple of nights and a strong south wind over the next couple of days will keep the warming going with highs near 70 for sunday and we may get close to 80 by monday. after a very dry stretch, we'll see a chance of a few showers by tuesday with that system

wednesday. a few more showers

still to come... one siouxland town was taken over by the undead this evening. why everyone is running in this small town. residents in lawton might have

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double take tonight. some people opened the blinds to see zombies roaming the streets. but it was all part of fundraiser and ktiv's sam curtiss takes us inside the action. not a bad looking evening for a run in lawton. at least until runners came across some people back from the dead. "we started working on this in april," said susan logsdon. so no, people are not literally turning into zombies in lawton. but they were figuratively for a

it all started in one persons garage. "four adults trying to get all 20- something kids decorated," said logsdon. raven loftus was one of those 20-something. "like an hour or so," said raven loftus. she was playing the role of herself, well, a walking dead version of herself anyways. most zombies like loftus are juniors at lawton- bronson junior/senior high school. the purpose of the run was to raise funds for an after-prom party. "midnight to five kids can go down to bronson and have a party that's a safe environment where they can go and hang out and have some fun with their friends," said logsdon. seeing the living dead drew attention from residents as well. some choose to check it out for themselves outside. others had a good enough seat inside watching runners elude the undead. deputies with the woobury county sheriff's office watched over runners. you know, in case of actual zombies. "i actually had one come after me," said todd wieck. "i think zombies, i think the the thing they do is eat brains right?" "well i don't have to worry because i don't have one." if he says so. runners had life flags attached at the waist. loftus and others were there to strip them. finish with all and you're a survivor. lose a few and you get the jist. though loftus can understand why zombies seem so hungry in

people run fast," said loftus. in lawton, iowa, sam curtiss, ktiv news four. " the zombie fun run was a first year experiment. organizers say depending on the success of the event, they might mark's in now with sports - saturdays are always busy in the college football world. (mark) and especially busy in ames - where iowa state was looking for an upset of number-3 tcu. we've got those highlights coming up after the break. plus, south dakota pulls a huge upset - and comes up with perhaps the biggest win in