Three years without a title and the national narrative keeps shifting to absolve the teams that actually beat us. I keep seeing praise for LSU and Georgia and Alabama for their recruiting hauls and their "resilient" programs and it makes me want to scream. You know who didn't get the benefit of the doubt when we were on top? Nobody handed us anything. We had to drag respect out of the media one gut-check win at a time. Now the 2027 rankings are dropping and I see Ohio State and Oregon dominating the headlines again and I am. The SEC preview wants to talk about contenders like we are NOT sitting here with a roster that matches up. The disrespect is getting old. We reloaded the portal. We held onto our core. We are stacking talent in the trenches while everybody else is chasing flashy quarterback names and receiver transfers. Let them sleep. Let them keep talking about Georgia's tight end or Texas's recruiting momentum. We know what Jordan-Hare sounds like when the lights come on and a top-five team has to come into our building on a Thursday night. That noise does not show up in any recruiting ranking and it never will.