After the confetti fell at SoFi Stadium on a rainy night in Los Angeles three years ago, scores of jubilant Georgia players returned to the locker room in the aftermath of their 65–7 destruction of TCU to claim back-to-back national championships.
After wading through heavy cigar smoke and players throwing their gear into bags for the long journey home, a beeline of reporters waded to the area reserved for the quarterbacks. Stetson Bennett, the game’s offensive MVP, was still on a golf cart in the bowels of the stadium making his way to the postgame news conference, but recorders weren’t rolling to capture what he had to say.
