No doubt it was. Except when people get around to analyzing it, it will turn out that ND wasn't really that good anyway. Every team we beat turns out to not be very good afterwards which is hilarious since every one of them is much better than us before we play.
Toledo was going to give us trouble.
Duke's fast paced attack was going to give us fits.
fsu has had our number for 7 years.
GT was going to throttle us with their ball control offense.
Syracuse was going to play so fast we wouldn't be able to keep up.
UNC was...well ok, UNC has eaten ****s all year.
VT's defense would shut us down.
ND's run game would expose our suspect run D.
But miraculously it turns out that none of those teams are actually very good, and I'd be shocked if ND doesn't join the list.