Dave Dameshek

in Bama's house, and the excuse was, well, I mean, the kicker for Bama missed three field goals.

We know that they probably would have won the game if it weren't for that.

So they put Bama and LSU back in the national championship game.

Zero logic behind that, other than, well, come on, you know Alabama would beat Oklahoma State.

Yeah, I also think that if

you would put the Cowboys in the Super Bowl against the San Diego Chargers way back when.

They would have beaten them too, except that they lost the previous week to the 49ers, so the Chargers got to go because that's the system that is available, just as college football system should mean head-to-head rules over everything else, and it doesn't.

But what I will say, trying to lean into the reality, for better or worse, that we're living in right now,

You've now set yourself up for this.

Oh, yeah.

With your pounding the table.

Let's assume you beat Pitt.

Obviously, if you lose, you have no case.

Oh, if we lose, I just go into a hole.

Well, you know, this is a must-win game, according to Pat Narduzzi, as opposed to the Notre Dame game.

But you have to also now, they have it both ways.

It's like, well, that doesn't matter that you won head-to-head against your competition at the start of the season.

Now the yardstick is, do the Canes beat a common opponent on the same level?

Did they pound them the way the Irish just did?

Because apparently November means more.