No. 1 Alabama whomped No. 3 Florida State on Saturday, 24-7.

Let’s revisit this quote by FSU’s president from a week earlier:

FSU Prez John Thrasher is ready: "I shouldn't talk too much trash, but I think we're gonna beat Alabama pretty bad next week. I really do." — Tim Linafelt / FSU (@Tim_Linafelt) August 25, 2017

The Tide were touchdown favorites, per Las Vegas. They hadn’t lost a game by more than a touchdown since the 2013 season’s Sugar Bowl against Oklahoma, when the majority of their current players were in high school.

Thrasher gets to decide what he meant by “pretty bad” as a margin of victory, but anyway, this was always a hell of a claim. FSU didn’t nearly live up to it.

Noles coach Jimbo Fisher was more chill about it before the game:

Jimbo Fisher a little more reserved: "I guess we got a football game coming up, huh?" — Tim Linafelt / FSU (@Tim_Linafelt) August 25, 2017

Alabama is a dynasty, and the Tide don’t usually have any reason to feel disrespected. They’ve resorted in the past to putting up literal fake news on bulletin boards to rev up their players before games against actual underdogs:

"Or do you do what everybody else in the media does, just create some sh** and put it on the wall and see what sticks." — Nick Saban pic.twitter.com/HoAn3r5hiP — Brandon Marcello (@bmarcello) March 22, 2017

Nobody named National Media ever gave that quote, for the record. That’s not really Alabama’s concern, though.