NASHVILLE, Tenn. — On Wednesday at the SEC Media Days hullaballoo, a football player representing one of the conference’s member schools admitted to repeatedly watching one of Georgia’s College Football Playoff Championship games as motivation.
“I know our guys — we can compete with them,” he said.
The funny, almost surreal aspect of the young man making this proclamation — he wore a necktie and pocket square that were distinctly crimson, the habiliments of Alabama star offensive tackle JC Latham.