{"id":288122,"date":"2025-11-13T00:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/288122\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T00:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:47:09","slug":"urban-meyer-claims-pat-narduzzis-viral-notre-dame-comments-were-a-i-he-didnt-say-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/288122\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Meyer claims Pat Narduzzi’s viral Notre Dame comments were A.I.: ‘He didn’t say that’"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time since Sept. 2005, ESPN\u2018s College GameDay is headed to No. 22 Pittsburgh<\/a> for the Panthers\u2019 clash against No. 9 Notre Dame<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n

Both teams are red-hot heading into the matchup. The Fighting Irish have won seven consecutive games after opening the year with back-to-back losses, while Pitt has rattled off five consecutive wins after switching to freshman Mason Heintschel<\/a> at the quarterback position.<\/p>\n

With a matchup this big rolling into town, you would think that the head coach would be doing everything he can to earn a monstrous win and add a top-10 victory to his team\u2019s resume. Well, Pittsburgh head coach Pat Narduzzi<\/a> didn\u2019t quite set the world on fire with his quote earlier this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely not,\u201d\u00a0Narduzzi said Monday<\/a> when asked if it was a \u2018must-win\u2019 game. \u201cIt is not an ACC game. I\u2019m glad you brought that up. It is not an ACC game. I would gladly get beat 103 or 110-10 in that game. They could put 100 up on us as long as we win the next two after that. Again, our focus is on Notre Dame and getting as many wins as we can, one at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the grand scheme of things, Narduzzi isn\u2019t wrong. Pittsburgh currently sits at 7-2 (5-1), tied atop the ACC standings with Georgia Tech<\/a>, SMU<\/a>, and Virginia<\/a>. A loss to Notre Dame would do nothing to hurt Pittsburgh\u2018s College Football Playoff Rankings, as wins in its final two conference games (No. 15 Miami<\/a> and No. 16 Georgia Tech) would likely send it to the ACC Championship Game. A win there would clinch the program\u2019s first ever appearance in the CFP.<\/p>\n

When the quote was brought up on the latest edition of \u2018The Triple Option<\/a>\u2018 podcast, College Football Hall of Famer Urban Meyer<\/a> humorously stated that Narduzzi\u2019s comments were \u2018A.I.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not right,\u201d Meyer said. \u201cI\u2019m saying that\u2019s (not right). I know (Pat) Narduzzi really well. That\u2019s A.I. He didn\u2019t say that. Bulls**t. He didn\u2019t say that. That\u2019s A.I. That\u2019s that fake stuff. What the hell are you talking about? I talked to him, and that\u2019s a great football coach man. Intense sucker. I\u2019m telling you, that\u2019s A.I. I don\u2019t believe it. His team is going to be playing their ass off to be winning that game.\u201d<\/p>\n

A win for the Panthers would likely send them into their final two games (both against top-16 opponents) ranked inside the top-15 of the College Football Playoff Rankings. Kick-off for Saturday\u2019s monstrous clash at Acrisure Stadium is scheduled for 12:00 PM ET. The game can be seen on ABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since Sept. 2005, ESPN\u2018s College GameDay is headed to No. 22 Pittsburgh for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,149984,99,18421],"class_list":{"0":"post-288122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-pat-narduzzi-85-ursuline","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-urban-meyer-82-ss-john-paul"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}