This is the way you do awards.

Georgia’s Stetson Bennett selected as winner of Manning Award, presented by Allstate Sugar Bowl to nation’s top QB that takes into consideration the candidates’ bowl & playoff performances in its balloting. Bennett is 4th straight SEC QB to win Manning Award

— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) January 23, 2023

Congrats, Stetson Bennett!

************************************************************************

UPDATE:

Best part of the Zoom call for the Manning Award was this exchange between Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett and Archie Manning https://t.co/7DH3nkGl0j pic.twitter.com/unjoxtUO3U

— Jordan D. Hill (@JordanDavisHill) January 23, 2023

************************************************************************

UPDATE #2:  Anyone who still has their panties in a wad over Stetson’s speech at the celebration ceremony should read this:

And he says took a few days to look back at his Georgia career which gave him a new appreciation about that journey and the sometimes topsy-turvy relationship with the fans. He went from walk-on in 2017 to junior college transfer to returning on scholarship to eventually winning the starting job for good in 2021.

He likened the 65-7 thrashing of TCU in the national championship game on Jan. 9 in Inglewood, Calif., as something like “The Last Waltz,” a 1976 farewell concert by The Band.

“I hope everybody can remember what it was like on that ride because it was nuts, it was nuts,” Bennett said Monday on a Zoom after he was named Manning Award winner for nation’s top quarterback. “Them hating me. Me hating them. Us falling in love together, coming back, playing football. It was special. I wouldn’t change a single thing. I don’t think I’d be here without it being that way. I hope that everybody who was there and everybody who was with me and everybody that I was with, just knows I appreciate the heck out of it. Everything.”