So, remember last week, when the Blob said this felt like a different Notre Dame team this time, that it looked and played like one of those old hit-you-in-the-ivories Lou Holtz teams that went around beating up on (as Holtz used to say) Scared To Death Of Rice and the University of Navy?
And remember when the Blob also said this?
(The Blob) could be wrong, of course. It has frequently been wrong about Notre Dame.
Yeah, well ... fooled again.
Frequently Wrong ran headlong into Wrong Again, Knucklehead, as unbeaten Miami got the Irish down there in Coral Gables and beat the gold paint off them, 41-8. In the Blob's defense, it was whipping not even Miami coach Mark Richt saw coming. Notre Dame certainly didn't see it coming. And it's a certainty the Blob didn't, easily fooled by Notre Dame as it so often is.
What it was not fooled by, in a way, was the notion that at some point in almost every season Brian Kelly's teams mysteriously fail to show up. Usually it's against a team that has no business beating the Irish but somehow manages to anyway. Last night it was against the team most people thought did have a decent chance to beat them -- but not in the manner in which it happened.
You could see Notre Dame losing to Miami. What you couldn't see was Miami trampling the Irish like they were William and Mary, or perhaps even some of William and Mary's lesser offspring.
And that, frankly, is on Kelly. You don't want to say the guy takes a week off every season, but it sure looks like he takes a week off every season. You can damn near set your watch by it.
At any rate, here's a fond farewell to Notre Dame's gauzy dreams of playing for a national championship a year after going 4-8. And probably to Georgia's, too, after the Bulldogs got laminated 40-17 by Auburn yesterday. That's two of last week's top four going down hard, while old reliables Clemson and Alabama kept chugging along.
Stay tuned. Things are about to get interesting.
Just, you know, not for Notre Dame.
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