00:00We're talking a little bit about that game in South Bend we saw this past weekend
00:03between the University of Miami and Notre Dame.
00:07Look, there is no doubt this was one of the biggest games.
00:10This will be one of the most highly rated games of the year.
00:15And did it live up to some of the billing?
00:18A little bit, but not really until the second half of this football game.
00:22Notre Dame ends up winning 31-24 and really saves their season.
00:27The committee on Tuesday of last week basically told them,
00:31you had to win this game.
00:32Miami still has the conference championship of the ACC.
00:36Probably and most likely they're going to play Wake Forest again.
00:40So your five came out with the Associated Press.
00:43We'll see what the college football playoff committee does on Tuesday.
00:47One, two, three, four, and five.
00:50Georgia, one.
00:51Utah, two.
00:52Notre Dame, three.
00:54UCLA, four.
00:55And Miami, five.
00:56That sounds right with Indiana and Alabama and Texas right there
01:01knocking on the door in the top five.
01:03Look, I got asked all weekend long,
01:05what was my takeaway on Miami getting jobbed in South Bend?
01:11My first initial take was it was a touchdown.
01:14Then I started thinking about the history of South Bend.
01:18And I've said this before, and Jimmy Johnson said it 38 years ago.
01:22If you go to South Bend and you're going to rely on the referees in a close football game to
01:30give you a call,
01:31that's not going to happen.
01:33That is not going to happen on the road in South Bend.
01:37And we did not play a very good first half.
01:40Mario Cristobal was not very happy with the referees and their decision to negate that touchdown in the back of
01:47the end zone.
01:49You know, really, really disappointed that they negated Elijah Lofton's touchdown with two hands on the ball and two feet
01:57inbounds.
01:58But like we told our team before we left Miami, do not leave it in the hands of the officials,
02:03because that's what you're going to get out here.
02:04So aside from that, a very hard-fought game.
02:07Congratulations to Notre Dame for winning the game.
02:10And very disappointed in the way that was called with the game on the line and clear possession of a
02:16football inbounds.
02:19So anyways, questions, please.
02:22Did the referees give you any explanation?
02:26Did Damon come over and talk to you?
02:29Zero. Explanation. Zero.
02:32Mario, there was another one where Jalen Upshaw was pretty roughed up in the end zone as well.
02:37So I don't know how you guys saw that one, but I didn't call that one either.
02:43You know, I could sit here and go all day.
02:45I know games get called back and forth with certain plays that determine certain games when you have instant replay.
02:51This is pretty good for Mario.
02:53I mean, what do you want me to say? I mean, it's bulls**t.
02:55This is pretty good for him.
02:56I don't leave it at that.
02:57And again, that's the way it was seen by them.
02:59So I got to live with it and respect it.
03:01And our players got to live with it.
03:02And we got to do better.
03:03And you know what?
03:04Again, don't leave it in the hands of the officials.
03:06Play better, coach better, find a way to win.
03:09But again, I don't need to be criticizing officials.
03:12I just need to move on.
03:13You have to understand something, folks.
03:16He was in the building in 1988 as a player with the Cleveland-Gary play that his knee was down.
03:26It wasn't a fumble.
03:27His knee was down.
03:28So as a player, Mario Cristobal has been on the end of both of these now.
03:34So he's going to be a little more sensitive, having been there as a player, getting jobbed in South Bend,
03:40and now, in his opinion, getting jobbed in South Bend as a coach.
03:44Look, I said this before.
03:46I was kind of posting it all on my ex-account all weekend long.
03:50The college catch rule is completely different in the college game.
03:54Two feet established.
03:55You get it.
03:56He's going out of bounds.
03:58They knock the ball out.
03:59In the pros, that's not a catch.
04:00In college football, that is a catch.
04:03All that being said, don't leave it up to the referees in South Bend.
04:07You're not getting that call.
04:09Play better.
04:10Now, look, I think they stumbled around in the first half of that game without Malachi Tony.
04:16If they get him back, and if he's on that field, is that a completely different football team and a
04:22completely different game?
04:23Most likely it is.
04:25I thought Notre Dame really held on at the end and in the second half.
04:29It wasn't really a football game that they played four quarters.
04:32They got the lead, and they held on.
04:35Miami was able to rally back.
04:36I don't think Miami really played their best game, and I don't really think Darian Mensah played.
04:40His best game.
04:41I do think that C.J. Carr probably played one of his signature games that he's had so far in
04:47his career.
04:48He wasn't very good last year in the opener against Miami down in South Florida.
04:53I thought he was pretty good.
04:55I thought their defense was really good and ran to the football.
04:58Notre Dame's got a lot of guys that were out also on that defensive side.
05:02So both units going into that ball game were playing with a lot of pressure.
05:07Obviously, Miami still got an opportunity to get one of the buys in the opening round of the college football
05:12playoff.
05:13Notre Dame had to win this.
05:15They had to win this football game because really on their schedule, there's nothing that's going to be a signature
05:22win if they were going to lose that football game.
05:24Plus, you'd already lost to BYU earlier in the year.
05:28So they had to have that football game.
05:31They had to get that signature win.
05:34No question about it.
05:35Do I think we'll see them again in the playoff?
05:37I do.
05:38Most likely.
