It wasn't just any year in college football.
We're going to have a College Football Playoff for the first time that doesn't include Alabama or Clemson and one that does include TCU.
There are similar surprises on ESPN's 2022 All-America team. Some of the players on everybody's radar when the season began didn't make it, and some players nobody was talking about prior to the season played their way onto the team.
The only three players to make our preseason team, midseason team and postseason team were Texas' Bijan Robinson, Alabama's Will Anderson Jr.