Live from the BCS title game, where the Irish have landed
The view from my seat. There are several more folks in the stands now. (Panoramic photo by M. Bradley)
Miami Gardens, Fla. – Maybe it was because this correspondent spent more time counting ocean waves than hanging out on South Beach, but it was hard to get a read on the fans. I saw far more Alabama folks walking around, and it wasn’t until Sunday that I saw more than a few Notre Dame shirts. (And I’d even gone to Mass, where there were actually more folks wearing crimson. Go figure.)
That changed today. When the first media bus rolled into the parking lot at Sun Life Stadium — that’s what this place, which has known many names, is now called — at 3:40 p.m., we saw Irish fans by the boatload. If I had to guess, I’d say the crowd will be 55-45 Bama, but I’m bad at estimating crowds.
I’m sometimes bad at predicting games, too, but the responsibility to offer a pick comes with the job. I’m on video record with Noah Coslov of CineSport as taking the Tide to win 17-10, but I’ve covered a few of these BCS title games and I know the favorite doesn’t always win. (Exhibit A: USC in January 2006; Exhibit B, Ohio State in the desert the next year.)
OK, enough of me. I’ll be here until a national champ has been identified, and I’d appreciate the company. And I thank you, as ever, in advance.
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Mighty SEC
January 7th, 2013
8:42 pm
Im not a big Alabama fan but I bleed SEC!!!!! Roll Tide
Mighty SEC
January 7th, 2013
8:43 pm
not a catch
Mark Bradley
January 7th, 2013
8:44 pm
Eifert was juggling the ball. Close, but incomplete.
Mark Bradley
January 7th, 2013
8:45 pm
Notre Dame going to be penalized for interfering with the fair catch.
Mark Bradley
January 7th, 2013
8:46 pm
Not the greatest call, I say having seen the replay.
Mark Bradley
January 7th, 2013
8:47 pm
So much for the Notre Dame gets all the calls line of thinking, huh?
Mighty SEC
January 7th, 2013
8:47 pm
we would have won if they did not cheat
oldbird
January 7th, 2013
8:48 pm
That call was awful.
Mark Bradley
January 7th, 2013
8:48 pm
Pretty big hole on third-and-one.
Marielena
January 7th, 2013
8:48 pm
Where’s Manti?
Mighty SEC
January 7th, 2013
8:50 pm
Can ND tackle
Da truth
January 7th, 2013
8:50 pm
I’d rather see Tide and Ducks than theese Gold domers
Mark Bradley
January 7th, 2013
8:50 pm
McCarron to Shinn. First down.
Mighty SEC
January 7th, 2013
8:52 pm
Manti= over rated
Todd grantham
January 7th, 2013
8:52 pm
What conference are the officials from?
Mark Bradley
January 7th, 2013
8:52 pm
Wow. Lacy.
YES!
January 7th, 2013
8:53 pm
Eat it Stephen Tuitt!!!
Mighty SEC
January 7th, 2013
8:53 pm
The SEC title game was better than this
Mark Bradley
January 7th, 2013
8:53 pm
Domination seems at hand.
Todd grantham
January 7th, 2013
8:53 pm
Wow Bama!!
Mark Bradley
January 7th, 2013
8:53 pm
Officials are Pac-12.
YES!
January 7th, 2013
8:54 pm
Ballgame!!!!
Mark Bradley
January 7th, 2013
8:54 pm
Lacy: 72 yards, eight totes.
Mighty SEC
January 7th, 2013
8:54 pm
Thats why the SEC is the best!!!!!!!!!!!
Dawg Patrol
January 7th, 2013
8:54 pm
Lacey = Freight Train
YES!
January 7th, 2013
8:55 pm
ND not worthy of being in this game!
GOT 15 ?
January 7th, 2013
8:55 pm
SEC Supremacy: IN THE HOUSE !
Michael Vick’s DOGZ had a better chance of survival.
ROLLLLLLLLLLL !!!!
TIDE !!!!
oldbird
January 7th, 2013
8:55 pm
Officials are from PAC 12 and I guess they are not accustomed to officiating real football because so far they pretty much suck.
Big Crimson 75
January 7th, 2013
8:55 pm
Not over yet.
Keep pounding that rock.
Todd grantham
January 7th, 2013
8:56 pm
The SEC Championship Game WAS the national championship game.
Bama14
January 7th, 2013
8:57 pm
Right you are, Big Crimson 75. But i like the way we’re running it…
Todd grantham
January 7th, 2013
8:57 pm
This can’t continue so one sided.
"Chef" Tim Dix
January 7th, 2013
8:57 pm
Lacey is a must have for the Falcons.
oldbird
January 7th, 2013
8:57 pm
The national championship was played last month in Atlanta, where my beloved Dawgs came up 5 yards short. This might as well be the BBVA Compass bowl.
AJC
January 7th, 2013
8:57 pm
Mark has started working on his next 5 yard and 5 seconds story.
GOT 15 ?
January 7th, 2013
8:57 pm
Would former Atlanta Falcons Safety Eugene Robinson gotten arrested by Miami Vice for prostitution solicitation in the early morning hours if he were playing in this title game for Notre Dame, too?
ROLLLLLLLLLLL !!!!
TIDE !!!!
Mark Bradley
January 7th, 2013
8:57 pm
Alabama has it again.
cousin vicker
January 7th, 2013
8:58 pm
Hey Todd Grantham, if you wanted to be in this game, maybe you should have better utilized all that NFL talent this year. You are an overrated blow hard and the biggest reason UGA is in serious trouble on D next year. (the coach, not the fine blogger using his name)
Mark Bradley
January 7th, 2013
8:58 pm
This might be overruled, though. Knee looks down
oldbird
January 7th, 2013
8:59 pm
I think a review will overturn this one. His knee was down.
Todd grantham
January 7th, 2013
8:59 pm
Looked like a knee was down
Marielena
January 7th, 2013
8:59 pm
WOW! UGA is head and shoulders above this poser ND team.
82Dawg
January 7th, 2013
9:00 pm
Will be over turned…
GOT 15 ?
January 7th, 2013
9:00 pm
The Crimson Tide is simply doing to the Fighting Sanduskies what the Seahawks will do to the Falcons this weekend.
Heck, Alabama would do this to the Falcons, too.
ROLLLLLLLLLLL !!!!
TIDE !!!!
Lou Holtz
January 7th, 2013
9:00 pm
Notre Dame will always be the national champs
Bama14
January 7th, 2013
9:00 pm
That’s ND’s ball…
Mark Bradley
January 7th, 2013
9:00 pm
Notre Dame keeps it.
SEC Dominance
January 7th, 2013
9:01 pm
Notre Dame looks like a Class A High School Team playing a Class AAAAAA Team so far.
The call should be reversed, he was down.
Mighty SEC
January 7th, 2013
9:01 pm
Things ND fans are now saying!!!!!!!!!
1) it’s only the 1st half
2) that fumble was ours
3) their better than we expected
dean
January 7th, 2013
9:02 pm
I see the classy AL fans must be somewhere else since they’re not here. Except for Big Crimson.