The 2022 college football season is now in the books. It’s all over. The final game has been played. The Georgia Bulldogs have won back-to-back national championships, hammering the TCU Horned Frogs by 58 points in Monday’s title game in SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif.
An SEC team winning the national title is hardly new. Kirby Smart winning the national title isn’t, either. A Southern team winning the national title is not a plot twist, to be sure. Plenty of college football realities remain intact and are likely to stay intact for the next few years. We do have the 12-team playoff just around the bend in 2024, which will change the landscape of the sport, but we have one more season with a four-team playoff in 2023. Let’s focus on where the sport stands at the end of 2022, heading into another fascinating offseason loaded with plot points and, to be sure, some transfer-portal dramas which will change the competitive calculus across the country.