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The Alabama Football problem Brian Kelly cannot overcome

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Brian Kelly may not have chosen to be measured against Alabama Football. Instead, the situation was thrust upon him on a January 2013 night in Miami. Kelly's Notre Dame Fighting Irish were ranked No. 1; Alabama was No. 2. John Talty wrote that "Alabama players remember looking over at the Notre Dame players and knowing the Irish had no shot at beating them." Midway through the third quarter, Alabama led 35-0. During the game, announcer Brent Musberger famously said that the contest was so one-sided, "had it been a fight, they would have stopped it.