INDIANAPOLIS -- The hero was all at once easy to spot and yet impossible to see. Like he's always been.
The 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship had been over for a few minutes, the Georgia Bulldogs having finally vanquished archnemesis Alabama 33-18 in a contest that was much closer than that final score will ever explain. The air above the Lucas Oil Stadium turf was filled with cigar smoke and confetti. Georgia football players, coaches, and family were frantically running around, gathered in pockets of people, hugging and sobbing and screaming in groups of two, three, five folks at most.