SportsPulse: USA TODAY Sports' Dan Wolken breaks down the burning questions heading into the 2018 SEC football season. USA TODAY
ATLANTA — As if Jimbo Fisher didn’t already understand the stakes — you might have heard about his new contract for 10 years and an astounding $75 million, and sure, he knew exactly what that meant — there was the presentation in February.
He’d been Texas A&M’s coach for all of two months. Everyone already knew the Aggies had landed the biggest hire in college football’s annual coaching carousel, and maybe the biggest in recent memory.