Joe Burrow, A.J. Brown, and the SEC All-Alumni Team

NFL Offseason - Welcome to the Eleventh Annual NFL Alumni Awards! Once again I use the NFL's no-longer-pretending-to-be-amateurs collegiate pipeline to gauge major conference program strength, assess who is up and who is down at the ever-volatile pro level, and start arguments, because one thing lacking in today's sports media environment is contrived conflict!

We begin with the conference that has won the national title 13 times in the last 17 years, including 2022, the almighty Southeastern Conference. The Georgia Bulldogs are the first national champions to repeat since the 2012 Alabama Crimson Tide, another SEC program. It just so happens that 2012 was also the first year I began handing…