What if?
It's the most powerful two-word question there has ever been. We ask it about our own lives and world history. As in "What if Archduke Franz Ferdinand's car hadn't stopped in front of that Sarajevo café in 1914?" or "What if I had married my high school sweetheart instead of this weirdo sitting across from me at dinner right now?" Disney+ has a Marvel series "What If...?" There's even a romcom starring Harry Potter titled "What If?"
In the college football world of the 21st century there has always been one "What if?" that overshadows all others.