It didn’t really hit me until Clemson players were celebrating on that awful Levi Stadium field after one last handoff right into the corpse of Alabama’s defense that college football had once again come to an end. The mid-week G5 games, the primetime ABC game of the week broadcasts, the midnight Hawaii kickoffs, all of it, over, yielding yet another lengthy offseason and 2019 kickoff date (Aug. 24) that feels decades away. Eight months of grasping at any content we can get after the four months of pure bliss that we took for granted.
The end of a college football season never stings less.