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UNDER THE DOME go down for doing things that past teams haven't done, all respect to the past players that played here. Our defense, we have potential to be a really great defense, and we just have to keep working to be smarter in our assignments and be smarter in our positions. I really just want to be a great defense — a great defense that's completely lockdown and shut down with a bad head-banging mentality." "I want to break the history books. I want our names to THEY SAID IT PHOTO BY LON HORWEDEL perennial as Santa Claus, instead will go the way of Texas-Texas A&M, Missouri-Kansas and other rival- ries sacrificed to mammon. It is one more piece of wreckage on the side of the road to realignment. … The disappearance of the Notre Dame-Michigan rivalry doesn't make college football better. The fairy tale that Michigan and Notre Dame told us has been traded for another tale, in which a boy named Jack trades the family cow for a sack of magic ACC beans." — Ivan Maisel, ESPN.com "Notre Dame-Michigan, a rivalry that seemed as don't be surprised to see Notre Dame in the middle of the national championship conversation in No- vember. Do I think the Irish are talented enough to win it all this year? No. But when you look at their schedule, it's not ridiculous to think they at least have a shot at getting to Miami." — Adam Hoge, CBS Chicago "This will come off as crazy talk to most, but it is absolutely imperfect, and it is unclear how much this will matter once the season resumes after an off week. … Turns out "Notre Dame is a top-10 team, Notre Dame sophomore defensive end Stephon Tuitt that prohibitive 2012 schedule can be had, with Oklahoma and USC already saddled with losses, Stanford trekking to South Bend for an Oct. 13 showdown and other foes looking like damp rags. It can also be trapdoor after trapdoor if the de- fense isn't near perfect and a sputtering offense is an issue, dissolving BCS dreams in an instant." — Brian Hamilton, Chicago Tribune best friend is his confidence. If a player doesn't have confidence, he's not going to be very good. And if you're here at Notre Dame, you are here for a reason; you're here because you can play football. You're here because of a lot of reasons. But if you don't have that confidence that you had, you're not going to be successful. " — Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o on his advice to sophomore quarterback Everett Golson "I have always been a believer that a player's @sportspickle: "Miami-Notre Dame in primetime? That reminds me: Do you think Bush or Dukakis will win the election?" — The sports comedy website harkens back to the heyday of the Notre Dame-Miami rivalry during the late 1980s TWEET OF THE WEEK