How people thought UM still had a shot here. If you pull out all the stops at his in-home visit (which Harbaugh did) & he comes out & says that Bama still leads then it's not going to happen. What was going to change his mind if the visit didn't? 

There was so much optimism over the past week that I thought I must've missed some report debunking the "bama still leads" comment. 

That there may or may not have been an oatmeal cream pie sighting! He's as good as gone.