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You think ND would've let Miami's ends reek havoc if they had film on them? Even with respect to their own team, coaches think they've determined their best lineups, but they don't know until they play games. Have you heard much from the head-to-headers about the previously frequent truth that teams make their biggest leap between games 1 and 2? I haven't either.

The Committee is supposedly not to discourage teams from scheduling hard opponents at the beginning of the season, and now the claim is that this game should be decisive in determining which is the better team months later? If ND knew that, you think the coaches would have had such a cautious game plan?

This is nothing but a retrospective re-engineering of the significance of the game.