Florida? They haven't been the same since Spurrier left. We beat them in '95 and we can handle them now.

This reminds me of the '98 Independence Bowl, we won with grit, not glamour. You're obsessing over stats from a down year, but a real program builds men who fight. We'll find our guy who can win the old-fashioned way, not some portal mercenary.

Our quarterbacks faced the Doomsday Defense and lived to tell about it, son

You Notre Dame folks always forget the Cotton Bowl in '77 when we shut down your so-called development system. Recruiting rankings in February don't win games in November. I watched Houston Nutt take three-star kids and beat top-five teams because they played with heart, not a draft profile. Your "right way" sounds a lot like the same arrogance we heard before the 2012 game in Fayetteville. Building through high school is fine, but you ignore how the game has changed. The best teams now blend both, something we learned the hard way after the Southwest Conference died.

You Colorado folks should worry about your own mess before questioning roster managemennt. We had 28 new faces in '77 after Lou Holtz arrived and still knew Ken Hatfield would lead us. Your problem isn't the number of transfers, it's that you're chasing headlines instead of building a team. Back in the Southwest Conference days, you built cohesion through spring ball, not the portal. Deion is treating your roster like a fantasy league, and everybody outside Boulder can see it.

You never had to face Darren McFadden