Excellent splenetic arm-waving. The grand distallation is that ND should never lose to Mormon BYU.

BYU is not Ohio State and it is not Georgia. ND has superior leverage over BYU in every dimension in fielding a football team.

That BYU was ranked, does not take away from the fact that BYU is a Big12 pretender Power program. That game should have been an interesting warm-up for the real big boys faced in the CFP. But it wasn't.

But that was then, this is now. Freeman has to assert leadership in regrouping and repairing what is not working.