There’s got to be a word out there for missing something even before it’s gone, for feeling nostalgia even before the past is past. Whatever that word is — probably some multisyllabic German monstrosity — go ahead and apply it to this year’s college football season. Take a long last look, because this is one of those end-of-an-era years in college football.
Like the days before you move out of your childhood home or graduate college, the 2023 season will be one of those everything-is-slipping-away-too-fast times, a season when we’ll see longtime rivalries and decades-old traditions take their final bows.