With the College Football Playoff and bowl games set, and Army-Navy all that separates us from the official end of the college football regular season, it’s time to look back and hand out some awards.
Like a shooting star in the night sky, the college football season lights up our lives for just a brief, fleeting moment before disappearing with the darkness of the offseason once again overtaking our lives.
We go back to kicking rocks and pretending to care about baseball for a few months, all the while keeping a watchful eye above, waiting for that star to illuminate once more.
The long wandering wilderness of the offseason isn’t here yet, though, with a slate of juicy bowl games and the College Football Playoff still on the horizon to help us get through uncomfortable family gatherings that the holidays bring with them. In the very least, there’s typically a game you can turn on and distract from political conversations with narrow-minded relatives.
The bowl season kicks off in earnest next weekend, with only Army-Navy and a close Heisman Trophy race between a trio of worthy contenders to hold our attention until then.
This time of the year is always good for retrospective pieces about the season that was. It’s fun to examine first-year coaches, and harp on the litany of disappointing and overrated teams from the 2018 season.
It was an outstanding season across college football, with an excellent playoff ahead of us featuring four very deserving teams competing for the grandest prize of them all. Alabama, Clemson, Notre Dame, and Oklahoma will compete for the College Football Playoff crown, while others will compete for consolation prize bowl games with an eye turning toward 2019.
Awards season is upon us, and with some of the most prestigious awards already being announced, with others being doled out this weekend, it’s as good a time as any for us to hand out or own set of season-ending awards and superlatives.
Let’s dish those out, and admire the season that was: