Manti Te'o talks playing Alabama in the 2013 BCS National Championship Game

That was a great moment. Especially in hindsight.

I remember their Big-10 looking fans started selling shirts that read "Catholics vs Cousins" so Bama fans immediately responded by making "Pachyderms vs Pedophiles" shirts

Complete and utter destruction of the 2nd most storied CFB program.

This was murder-ball at its peak. We dominated LSU in a different way the year before.

It was never this "easy" again. Clemson went toe to toe with us. Ohio state at least traded a couple blows. And of course UGA upped their game at the end.

First drive we rode Eddie Lacy down the field for a TD and it was clear that Alabama was about to hand down an arse whooping. Alabama was simply better across the board: size, speed, strength, physicality, etc.

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I remember seeing a interview with one of our o- lineman after that game and he said when they watched film on Notre Dame that they all started laughing and were shocked that this team was in the national championship game. He said they weren't worried one bit about winning ,they knew they were going to win.

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I'm pretty sure Miami though the same thing about Bama in 92.

Funny how things turn out.

I think the only time this has caught Bama out is in these consolation bowl games. THinking particularly about playing Oklahoma and Utah in the Sugar Bowl.

Proud of how we handled Mich State, Kansas State, Michigan in similar bowl games.

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I'm pretty sure Miami though the same thing about Bama in 92.

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That's because Miami didn't go by the film but instead by the reputation they had built for themselves since 1986 or so. That '92 Miami squad was solid but they weren't unbeatable and had shown themselves to be very mortal multiple times that season. For instance, they held on to an 8-7 win over an unranked Arizona team at home when Arizona's kicker missed the game winner by a foot as time expired. They also had scares against Florida State and Penn State while also struggling against Syracuse. Now it's true that Alabama had their struggles against the likes of Southern Miss, Louisiana Tech, Mississippi State, and Florida, but those struggles were put under a microscope while Miami's struggles against similar competition were ignored.

Miami was good but they were flawed. Alabama exposed them in New Orleans.

Inject this into my veins

Everyone that watched the pregame where Bama came out of the tunnel and ND was just standing there knew what was coming

After the 2010 season, my buddy (who is always convinced if we played Hoover High Bama would get better by 10+) and I scored tix to the bowl game vs MSU. During the pregame warmups while both teams were on the field it was waaaay more than apparent that there was a whole different breed of animal on one side of the field as opposed to the other side. I said to my buddy, "This game is over. We're going to kill them." "Don't say that! We'll be lucky to win!" And, of course, we were up 21-0 before the national anthem was done.

Fast forward two years, and we're in Miami for the national championship against the Domers. During the pregame warmups I turned to him and said, "Buddy, you remember that bowl game against the Spartans? I have this sneaking suspicion this is going to end up the same way." It was that obvious just looking at both teams on the hoof.

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I'm pretty sure Miami though the same thing about Bama in 92

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Did they watch film?

Alabama in 1992 blew teams out more often than did Miami.

In 1992 Miami beat Arizona 8-7 (Arizona went 6-5-1 that year).

They beat FSU 19-16.
They beat Penn State 17-14.
They beat Syracuse 16-10.

They had a lot of close games, and not all of them were against good teams. 1/3 of their games in 1992 were won by less than a TD.

Bama beat everyone by at least a TD.