"What we've created is rat poison on steroids." Nick Saban talking about the current landscape of college football from a coaches perspective. " If you don't have intensity, you can't maintain focus, you can't really play with discipline, you don't play smart, and all these things lead to inconsistency in performance. It's different between wanting something and being committed to it, and I think we have a lot of conditional commitments to teams now in college sports. Guys are worried about how much money they make. I talked to one coach who's on a bye week this week. He says he's talking to agents, all week instead of focusing on coaching his team. So really what we've created is rat poison on steroids in terms of guys' ability to be able to stay focused and lock on what's important to having good performance and lock out things that affect the performance."

"If your ass thinks you can just show up on any Saturday and win because you have a logo or label you're out of your mind." Mario Cristobal doesn't mince words on College Gameday today talking about Miami being ranked #1. "What do you do with your team to try to establish consistency and performance when everybody's shooting at you? You go at 'em right between the eyes with truth, honesty, and transparency. You make practices really challenging. You make sure you highlight all the areas you gotta get better at and make it real clear if we don't get better at those things, we won't be able to accomplish our goals."