Scott Van Pelt took a page out of Auburn's playbook of claiming championships they didn't win by proclaiming himself an award winner.
Scott Van Pelt is one of the only sports media personalities who is universally loved. If you don't like SVP, that probably says a lot more about you than it does him. He's the only real reason to turn ESPN on when there isn't a game playing these days, pretty much single-handedly keeping alive SportsCenter, which mostly now feels like a relic of a bygone era.