Listen. Do you hear that? It’s the sound of punditry trying to read too much into one game.

I made the mistake of watching some of the gab shows and the talk of the ND-Pitt game today. It kind of compelled me to add a coda.

Some sportswriters probably sprained something jumping off the Wannstedt bandwagon (or backpedaling from frontrunning attempts to claim that they identified the “next” Pete Carroll).

Except for the push-broom mustache, Dave Wannstedt was channeling Walt Harris. The Panthers lost another big game and got pushed around doing it. So much for Wanny’s tough defense and power running game. Talk about sucking the life out of a team. Notre Dame strung together a 20-play, seven-minute drive in the third quarter.

Then you have plenty of mention of this:

Notre Dame goes to the East Coast and pulls a surprising rout of the No. 23 team in the country, a defending conference champ at that. Where have we seen this before? Oh, right: Tyrone Willingham‘s debut, a 22-0 rout of then 21st-ranked Maryland, the defending ACC champ, three years ago this weekend.

Which the boys at BGS seemed to expect. Unsurprisingly they completely reject such comparisons.

Here’s the thing. It means nothing of the sort for anything or anyone.

If Pitt had won, someone would have pointed out that Wannstedt and the Dolphins beat the Patriots under Belichick and Weis the first 3 times they took over as coaches. Or the fact that the last time Pitt beat ND in the first year of a new ND coach was in ’86 under Lou Holtz — and how well Holtz ultimately worked out for ND.

All it means is that ND beat Pitt this year.

We can compare it, try and make sense of it. Claim to put it in some grand perspective or scheme. But we don’t know right now. History and time will determine it’s “greater” meaning for both schools.

I hope that is all.