ATLANTA -- Dan Lanning spent hours in Georgia football staff meetings and on the UGA practice fields hearing Kirby Smart bark out orders while building championship teams.

ATHENS — The College Football Playoff moves on without Georgia tonight, putting an exclamation point on the finality of the season.

ATHENS — College football calls the current period of player transactions the “transfer portal,” but Nick Saban refers to it as “chaos.”

NEW ORLEANS — Pete Golding knows his Ole Miss Rebels have their work cut out for them, and it starts with containing Gunner Stockton.

NEW ORLEANS — Gunner Stockton knows the assignment, and this time, he knows exactly how to execute it.