A week ago, Notre Dame toed that line talking about its upcoming matchup with Alabama. Players didn’t say anything overtly disrespectful, but they didn’t shy away from the confidence in their plan and personnel entering the Rose Bowl game it lost, 31-14. The early stages of CFP national title game week started out a little more, let’s say, vanilla in the talking game. “I mean, I don’t want to get too into specifics,” Ohio State linebacker Tuf Borland said Monday, “but we talk about keeping them inside of us and keeping them in front of us, and that’s certainly something we’re going to have to do this week.” Both teams had two players meet with reporters via video conference Monday, a week before kickoff in Miami Gardens. Alabama receiver DeVonta Smith admitted he hadn’t even started looking at Buckeye film at his turn at the podium just after noon Monday.…
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