re: At what point does the crying game end....

If he were really concerned about parity, here's some things he might have said in the past.

In 2021 CFP:

You know, I really question whether we just played one of the best teams in the country. They tell me Vegas would've favored a lot of teams that are not in the playoff over Cincinnati. We are a pass heavy team now, we have struggled to run the football against the better defenses we have played. We came into this game vs. Cincinnati and shut our passing game down and just ran the football and won fairly easily, so I wonder if we are really getting the best teams in here.

In the 2015 playoff: I realize that Michigan State won a lot of games and beat some highly ranked teams at the time they played them. They also struggled many times against not so good teams. They are the only team that has made the playoff (still holds to today BTW) that has a negative in Net yards per play when adding the offensive NYPP and their defensive NYPP. So I have to wonder if they were really one of the best four teams.