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Is what happened last night<\/a>. \u00a0Whew. \u00a0That was a mauling. \u00a0And like announcers are saying, the score doesn\u2019t really show the real story, because Alabama should have had fifty more points and the Fighting Irish shouldn\u2019t have had any. \u00a0It was that lopsided. \u00a0At no point did Notre Dame look like it had a chance. \u00a0A weak schedule and multiple near misses was just not a record justifying going against the Tide. \u00a0And it showed. \u00a0By the second quarter, every critic of the BCS system was vindicated. \u00a0The rest of the game was just a\u00a0technicality\u00a0 \u00a0True, the Tide\u2019s series of shutouts came to an end, but that alone was the only thing that the Irish can cling to as the world makes with the Catholic jokes. \u00a0Congrats Alabama and Nick Saban, truly you \u00a0and the SEC are forces to be reckoned with.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"