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. >> mike golic and many more unshaven since train be camp in a solidarity show. >> once monday is over i think it's time for the face to get cooler. it's too hot here for the beard. >> and we came up with words together. >> playing a watered-down version of beer pong with the championship trophy as the back board? how can you not love a team that does that? >> less talk and more about why we're actually here. it's a great experience for everyone. >> you wouldn't want to get the wrong idea about these guys. they're as focused as they are fun-loving and as always, they follow the lead of their coach. >> i would say that alabama's got the belt and they deserve the belt and we got to take it from them. >> and the moment of truth is less than 48 hours away. at the b.c.s. championship, dan roan, wgn news. >> while the game gets close more celebrities and former players are making the scene. among those arriving, former heisman trophy winner tim brown. >> they're going to go out there and hopefully the score is 28-20 notre dame by 8. >> 17-13, n.d., i think it's going to be a low-scoring game

. >> let's talk about the game with mike and mike, mike golic and mike greenberg. nice to talk to you, guys. he's so funny, i'm happy as hell. as he sits there, not looking particularly happy at all. people have said dynasty. is that a fair word to use? >> i think it is, soledad. in the world in which we live today in college football, where it is as competitive as it has ever been no, team ever won back-to-back championships in this era. at this stage, 3 out of 4 does qualify as a dynasty. >> he doesn't want to talk about it, he'll leave it to others, i guess that's us. one of only four coaches who have won four national championships. he deserves that title to be above him. he'll never admit it, but he deserves it. built a fantastic program. he has it humming right now. >> what happened to your team, notre dame? i was rooting for them. >> physically, they got beat. i appreciate that. but it was about lining up and establishing dominance on the line of scrimmage. i thought it would be certainly closer than it would be there, but they dominated, especially offense

and mike and christine went to every notre dame game they could this year, every one of them, home and away. that's where the aging process is happening with those guys. have you a long list of golicsave gone to notre dame. mike and his brothers, mike and his sons go to notre dame and they have a daughter, sydney and she's a freshman on the notre dame swim team. a rich tradition with the golic family. much more with alabama and notre dame right here from miami. >> that has to be nerve-wracking for the parents watching. just in case something happens. so, listen, trying to get on a plane to go watch this game. traffic on rise, tickets for bcs game decline. when you read carefully the fine print, they are still really expensive, aren't they? >> let me tell you from somebody who is down here. i would love you to come down, zoraida, i'll buy you a beverage. if you think are you getting into the game, you're wrong. everybody is like i'll get a ticket the day of the game no, problem. no way. >> really? >> the cheap seats, nose bleed seats at the top of the stadium, going for $845 on stub hub. getting a plane at the last second, do not. everyone is counting on making the last-behind nit r

mike jr. signed with notre dame and jake a year later, it was a proud moment but there were some fans in the blogosphere who felt the boys only received scholarships for the golict was hurtful. >> you just see your kids work so hard and the outside world wants to diminish it. >> she took it hard. >> i did. >> on her side of it. my side of it was these people have zero clue. >> right. >> zero clue. all the chat rooms and all that, these are a bunch of wannabes sit around and type like they know what they're talking about. so i knew from the football world that they had the ability to be there and sidney had the swimming ability to be there. so i could look at it from that but that didn't help her. >> reporter: this was the final season at notre dame for both boys so mike and christine attended every game, home and away. >> they have been teammates forever, and they had a nice moment against wake forest on senior day when they knew it would be the last time they'd be on the notre dame field together. i'm sure they will have a nice moment in miami, hopefully winning a championship, but that will be the last time they're on the field together as teammates. they've