Mike Fuentes

I don't even deny it.

The real crime here is that it matters.

You have a bunch of backroom bureaucrats that are impressionable and don't like being bullied.

So rather than this happen last week of the season and having the rug pulled out from underneath you, you got to start the messaging now, even though when you know in your heart of hearts that Miami could let you down in late November like they have in years prior.

It is the bottom line, and it speaks to the arrogance of college football fans and the media because even when shown a result when two teams played, they are convinced, and it's a majority opinion in this country, in football America, that Notre Dame is better than Miami.

And it's such a strange thing because this sport, outside of baseball...

This sport, more often than not, in the playoffs, the better team doesn't always win.

That's why you have coaches.

That's why you develop game plans.

You have one-game samples.

If a team played a team 10 times, the better team might win more, but we have individual samples.

The national championship itself is an individual sample, and what happens in that singular game should have consequence.

No real surprise there, Dave.

He's the chief SEC propagandist.

But again, to just the smugness of the college football fan and media –

We've been chipping away at this SEC narrative.

I've been trying to do it.

I feel like I'm tilting at windmills a little bit because it's not the same.

I would readily admit, 10 years ago, that certainly was the case.

But you got smacked in the face week one with a cellar dweller in FSU.