But it does take strong rose-colored glasses to say we "killed" a team in a 7 point win with a whooping total of 60 yards by ND in the 2nd half. And thinking it wasn't much of a break that Syracuse's qb got hurt in halfway thru the 1st quarter because we were ahead and going to win anyway? Or thinking this wasn't a down Stanford team when it only beat 2 teams with a winning record. Heck, I didn't even mention getting to play Stanford coming off a overtime, away, night game against a big rival the week before.
Fact is, not withstanding that we did finish 12-0 which is no easy feat for sure, we caught a lot of breaks along the way to get there. But when the breaks didn't go our way, it didn't look pretty (3 - 30), now did it?
And it is certainly okay to wear rose-colored glasses. Lots of fans have them!