From a JVannie post at NDNation:

The positional matchups are as follows:

Position / Advantage
Quarterback – Notre Dame
Running Back – USC
Wide Receivers – USC
Tight Ends – Even
ND OLine vs. USC DLine – Even
USC OLine vs. ND DLine – Even
Linebackers – USC
Secondary – Even
Punting - Notre Dame
Kicking - USC
Return Teams - USC
Intangibles - Notre Dame

Plus, Notre Dame has a band.

The winner of this game should proceed immediately to the showdown with OSU. The Rock Report, despite its evident anti-OSU bias, explains why Michigan doesn't get a do-over:

"The" game wasn't that close. Ohio State held a comfortable double digit lead. Michigan had a chance at the end, but it wasn't much more than Frosty's chance of landing a hottie after a day on South Beach. I don't get the reward UM for beating the spread theory. Except for a late touchdown, that game was a mirror image of ND's Fiesta bowl against OSU in which ND was perceived to get killed. One was an eleven point game, the other a fourteen point game and OSU held a fourteen point lead for most of the game last weekend....

Michigan is a good team that played a great game in South Bend, but they also had an entire off season to prepare for a Notre Dame team that was coming off one tough away win over GTech and another game against PSU that carried inexplicable hype. It was a much more hyped game than UM this year. Michigan has been mediocre since the middle of the year and beaten no one of consequence. Michigan does not "deserve" a rematch. If Michigan opened with GTech, PSU and Notre Dame or if the Big N was any good at all, they would have had a loss before OSU.

UPDATE:  The only good thing about today's game is that --if USC can get by the Bruins-- we will finally see what happens when the new Big Ten meets the Sunshine Conference.