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00:00When you were at Auburn, did you ever obsess over Alabama the way Day obsesses over Michigan?
00:12Meanwhile, he's going to play for a national championship, but he's still worried about
00:16losing to Michigan.
00:17Well, I will say this, his fans help him a little bit.
00:21I've coached against Michigan and Texas.
00:24Up there, you either got to win, beat Michigan, or play for a national championship, and he's
00:290-4 against Michigan, so whether he can block that out, the fans are not going to let him.
00:35Right now, he's got that blocked out because he's playing for the national championship,
00:39but I will say this, he needs to not worry about it as much, and he may be, but the fans
00:44are not going to let that steal.
00:46I coached in Ohio long enough.
00:48When I was at Akron, I watched Ohio State and their fans every day, but he's got to
00:53block that out.
00:54He's got to block that out because he's had a better football team, but you can't obsess
00:59over it.
01:00You've got too many other games, and that's why if he can win this championship, it's
01:05going to quiet him down, but come Michigan game next week, it's going to be, you better
01:10not lose five in a row.
01:12That's just that game and the importance.
01:15That's the way it was in Alabama.
01:16I was told when I got to Auburn, I said, you can be the Auburn head coach, but you're not
01:21an Auburn man until you beat Alabama.
01:24Do you think that Ohio State, that giant spread, that they're going to, I mean, that
01:31spread indicates that people think they're going to beat Notre Dame easily.
01:34Yeah, I mean, it may come down, but it's just a little too much spread for me.
01:39I just, in my mind, Notre Dame is kind of a crowd favorite right now.
01:44They have chemistry.
01:45They don't have as much talent as Ohio State, but they've got great chemistry as a team.
01:51Their coach has great rapport with the team.
01:53They respond to him.
01:55He's young and probably, I don't want to say naive, but he kind of handles everything,
02:01not nonchalantly, but just in life.
02:02I just think that it's been a great story.
02:05They find a way to win.
02:07I think they've got it.
02:09That's how good they are.
02:10But again, Ohio State, talent-wise, almost every position, they're going to have to lose
02:16that ball game.
02:17I don't think Notre Dame can go out and win.
02:19I think Ohio State will have to lose that game.