By Brendan Loy

Most Trojan fans consider a “perfect day” to be a day when USC wins, and Notre Dame and UCLA both lose. As an “Irish Trojan,” I have a different definition: a Brendan Loy Perfect Day is a day when USC and ND both win, and UCLA loses. That’s happened a bunch of times since I enrolled at Notre Dame.

What hadn’t happened, not even once, in the six years since I became an Irish Trojan, is the exact opposite of a Brendan Loy Perfect Day: USC and ND both lose, and UCLA wins. Until yesterday.

UCLA’s blowout win over Pullman High School Washington State is really just adding insult to injury. The losses by USC and Notre Dame are bad enough on their own. In fact, believe it or not, that simple combination — a Trojan loss and an Irish loss on the same day — is itself unprecedented, even without the added condition of a Bruin win, since I started law school at ND.

Ugh.