The woulda national champion

If you tell yourself something often enough, you’ll come to believe it.

Javon Bullard’s hit on Marvin Harrison Jr. in the third quarter of the CFP title game turned the lights out on Ohio State’s championship hopes and is still being talked about more than six months later.

Harrison told CBS Sports at Big Ten Media Days that, “Yes,” had he played, “I think we go on to win that game against Georgia, and I like our chances in the national championship.”

Too bad it’s not that easy to change reality.

It just costs more.

Hmmm…

Taulia Tagovailoa said he was offered “crazy money” to the tune of $1.5 million this offseason should he transfer to an unnamed SEC program.

Mike Locksley stirred all spring over it. https://t.co/w96GKF1PE1

— Audrey Snyder (@audsnyder4) July 28, 2023

Gotta be Auburn or Florida, right?  In the case of the Gators, I hope he was sensible enough to ask to see the money up front.

Sitting at the big kids’ CFP table

Rather than prattle on about the Big 12’s renaissance, Josh Pate asks the $64000 question:

Why would the SEC & Big Ten ever agree to auto-bids in the next CFP contract? pic.twitter.com/W108dqjpIs

— Josh Pate (@LateKickJosh) July 28, 2023

Okay, more like the billion dollar question, but why indeed?  And in the case of the Pac-12, why even more indeed?

Can’t drive 55

If Kirby’s looking for an opportunity to set an example and lay the law down, one of his players just served himself up on a silver platter.

A Georgia football defensive lineman was cited for speeding in Franklin County on Monday morning and that afternoon was booked in the Clarke County Jail on a warrant for failing to appear for a previous citation in Athens.

Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins, a redshirt sophomore from Gaffney, S.C., was cited for speeding at 9:34 a.m. on I-85 around Lavonia, according to Major Chris Looney of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office. He was clocked going 90 miles per hour in a 70 mile-per-hour zone.

… Ingram-Dawkins summoned to appear July 11 at the Athens-Clarke County Municipal Court for a 2022 citation for “parking for persons with disabilities,” after his previous court date had passed. A contempt fee of $200 had been assessed.

Speeding and failure to appear?  Sounds like Mudcat’s car hit the daily double.