It isn't everyday that college football gets to witness an assistant coach making head coach of a College Football Playoff-bound program right after the most insane coaching drama, and leads them to the semifinals to lose by a single, highly controversial officiating call.
The whole nation was rooting for the Rebels to pull the Fiesta Bowl win off given their cinematic storyline this season.
And Pete Golding deserves much more appreciation than he is currently getting for that.
ESPN analyst Paul Finebaum rightly pointed that out in a wake-up call that was laced with a warning on not sleeping on the Rebels head coach.