Mike Golic Jr

It's a terrible loss.

But this is the SEC branding.

You have a team like Tennessee whose best win is against Mississippi State, ranked ahead of teams like Louisville and USF.

Good loss is better than good wins, Mike.

And it wasn't even a good loss, Alabama.

It's the team and the brand name.

This team this season is 3-4.

They lost at Hawaii by 3.

They lost at BYU 27-3.

They won at home against Boston College by 10 points.

They lost at Virginia by 28, 48-20.

They beat San Jose State by a point at home and had just come off getting crushed by SMU 34-10 before beating Florida State.

How do they do that?

Welcome to the Gus Malzahn experience.

Mike Norvell last won an ACC game when he was 42.

He's 44 now.

This is, you know...

after they said the ACC wasn't good enough for them and demanded a new revenue share structure because they were the class of the conference, and then they haven't beaten anyone in the conference since.

Mike Norvell would be owed about $55 million.

Gus Malzahn, the offensive coordinator, would get another $3.6 million.