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The end of the American calendar sports year features a festival of college football bowl games that fill television airwaves — if not attendant stadiums — and since 2014 a four-team playoff to determine which of the blessed chosen gets to shout from a mountaintop that is, arguably, mythical.
This year, however, the most memorable season’s punctuation really should be the likely conclusion of the college career of the brilliant Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. In mid-November, he played one series — or one game, if extreme pragmatism is your choice of perspectives — too long.