It was a dream season. It was the season I’d been waiting for my whole life.
If you looked at it on paper, you might think major college football is a meritocracy. There’s over one hundred teams at the top level, and every one of them is — in theory — playing for the same championship. The rosters are freshly stocked with new amateur players every year, and anyone could scrap and claw their way to the top in a given season.
Of course, most institutions that claim to be meritocracies aren’t really, and college football definitely isn’t.